99 degrees at 10 p.m.

When it's that hot outside, I'm still all about dinners that are refreshing and uncooked. Luckily, we're in full-on tomato season and the market is bursting with local goodness. And oh how I love tomatoes...

A perfect assortment of local tomatoes at the peak of ripeness...


...makes the only dinner I crave* in the midst of a ten-day heat advisory and a stack of thank you cards to work on:

Local tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil, plus some bread

Even better? Trevor doesn't like raw tomatoes, so they're MINE, all mine!

*and vino, obvs