We ate the last of our Black Krim tomatoes last night. The weather was cooler than usual most of the summer and we've had rain this fall, so the sugars in the tomatoes just never got as well developed as they could have, but we still had a pretty good crop of the tomatoes despite the best efforts of the squirrels and the raccoons to get them before we did.
Cindy was grilling burgers outside on the grill, using a recipe a friend at Hart Winery had given her last week. We had mentioned that most of the wine clubs we belong to had sent us port wine, but that we never get around to drinking it because we're just not dessert wine drinkers, so it's been piling up in our wine storage area. So she suggested we use some of the port the next time we made burgers, adding some blue cheese, some panko crumbs, the port and an egg. Cindy decided to skip the egg, but the rest of it made delicious burgers, topped with the big juicy tomato from our garden.
It was a beautiful evening. It's been hot the last couple of days, with temperatures in the low 90's, but this time of year the sun is so low in the sky that we can sit out on the patio in the evening and enjoy the garden without having the sun in our eyes. We decided to just stay out on the patio and eat the burgers with a bottle of Hart's 2007 Grenach and some Danza Del Sol 2008 Merlot under the stars.
That's a great way to enjoy a garden.
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