A Umami Tomato...

Light On Light Through · Sep 3, 2007

Well, my wife and I just had our first tomatoes from that straggly plant that I told you about last week. It's a "Better Boy" variety, and I have been hovering near it and taking care of it like a baby boy since we brought it home, or the verge of extinction at the end of August. It's lost almost all of its original leaves, but has put out lots of new ones, along with a bunch of little yellow flowers, and (so far) one new tomato.

But we bought it - for just seven dollars, by the way - with a whole lot of tomatoes on the plant. And today we ate the first three, beautifully ripened and …