Food from the porch

The porch makes food for me!!! Other than the continued health of my Gerber daisy, this is pretty much the culmination of all the hopes I had for the porch garden.

Seeing food budding, growing, ripening, is exciting, albeit in a hokey way. At least, I thought so until we harvested the first fruits of the porch:

What a beauty! We showed it off to appropriately admiring folks, then cut it up:

We dressed it simply, in salt and pepper, skipping any oil, herbs, or cheese. I enjoyed looking at the gorgeous red hues, but POW! eating it was amazing! The flavor packed a punch that any store-bought tomatoes, coming into season of not, just plain lacked! It was ridiculously, wondrously good, and I can say that I honestly and genuinely am excited by the prospect of counting off the days of ripening until I can eat more porch food!!!!!!