How many of us remember a great family recipe? How many of them have tomatoes in it? Between a Sicilian grandmother's homemade marinara to your father's Super Bowl chili, the tomato is the steadfast sidekick to so many great dishes out there. Tomatoes have more sentiment to my life and to my kitchen. My grandfather used to grow tomatoes at his house in the old french quarter of Manchester. What used to be a 6'x8' plot of poorly seeded grass was transformed by his hands into a tomato garden. Chain-link fence to pavement he planted everywhere he could and every summer the tomatoes would grow wildly, a mass of green stalks and fiery red.
