Tomato, Basil & Cucumber | Huw's Garden Recipes #1
The one salad I will never get bored of.
I believe that growing your own own food gives you the tastiest ingredients to work with, and out of all of the salads I make, this sits in my top spot in terms of frequency and simplicity. I make this at least once a week during the tomato season, and I never get bored of it, especially because I grow many different varieties that all offer their own unique flavours. My favourite iterations of this recipe usually involves multiple different tomato varieties together.
This week I made it with beefsteak tomatoes, mainly because it has been such a strange growing season that my beefsteaks are ripening much faster and sooner than my cherry varieties. The addition of the cucumber brings a hydrating and refreshing quality to the salad, plus some satisfying crunch.
The perfect dip
It turns out that the liquid created from this delicious salad is the perfect mopping sauce for any bread that needs using up. There is one ingredient in particular that has replaced normal salt in my cooking that makes this all the more delicious, and why it lends itself to having a juice so good that you simply cannot waste it.