"movin' to the country" ... gonna eat a lot of tomatoes (and oranges and carrots)

on sunday we went to south coast farms and picked up our produce for the week-

-i planned our menu to highlight the best of late summer: tomatoes!! as i confessed earlier, i could easily live on caprese sandwiches but since michael's home this week i thought it would be fun to plan a menu and try some new recipes. my goal is still to eat seasonally and simply so i turned again to the"summer" section in my everyday food.

here's an update of some delish finds so far:

on sunday we grilled the "favorite turkey burger" which incorpriates gruyere cheese and mustard in the patty for extra flavor and were surprised at how tasty they were! we topped with thickly sliced beefsteak tomatoes and avocado. we'll definitley incorporate this into our regular rotation. . .

yesterday we made the flank steak with lime marinade and i had planned to make the mellon & boccocini salad but after a mozerella shortage at tj's (not that there was any melon left anyway--we had devoured the sweet stuff with our burgers) i thawed some bread crusts left from our simple's wheat seed loaf and made tomato & grilled bread salad instead. the steak was tender and zesty and the salad highlighted the heirloom yellow, green, and rich red tomatoes. yum again! i saved half of the steak and tonight it'll star in vietnamese steak sandwiches at our disney picnic (going to get bread at cali adventure and watch the electric parade tonight!!). . .

oh, and we've been eating those peaches too. . .