What the hell? I know what you’re thinking – she’s typo-ing again. She’s letting her iPhone auto-correct. Is this a new Japanese car?
None of the above. It’s this:
What’s that, you ask? Why, yes it is one damn ugly colored tomato!
My biggest fear in sharing these fabulous fruits with you is that they will revoke my Jersey Girl card for being a traitor to the finest tomato in the land – the Jersey tomato – but this is really a delicious tomato!
Found in my local Wegman’s – right near the Jersey tomatoes – were packages of these brownish, rustyish, green tinged, ugly colored tomatoes. I have raised some genetically mutated children who do not eat tomatoes (none of them do – making it harder to believe it was a switched at birth thing), and I thought these might be an awesome way to hide tomatoes in foods so the kids didn’t know what they were eating. Well, the kids were too smart for that – identifying them immediately as tomatoes – but that leaves more for me!
These are sort of on the sweet side, with just a bit of the tomato “tang” you are probably familiar with. Don’t let the color fool you – these are not rotten, mushy tomatoes. The flesh is firm, the skin is tight (without the benefit of the wicked mad surgical skills of Dr. Veitia), and it has almost a crunch to it when you bite in.
I tossed mine into a salad so that I could appreciate the tomato in it’s simplest form, and I can’t help but wonder how these would be fried. They are a bit on the small side, but I think they might be really tasty, and hold up well to the frying pan. These would also be delicious in a caprese salad – not to mention beautiful against the white mozzarella cheese!
Even if you live in Jersey, look for the Kumatos the next time you go shopping. You just might find that Jersey has some stiff competition!