It’s time to bake a tomato pie. Right now. Tomatoes are at their peak of production and perfection. These are the tomatoes that you wait for all summer.
The succulent beauties that make you take the salt shaker to the garden with you. Pluck a sun-warmed tomato from the vine and eat it like an apple, devouring, salting as you go, juice running down your chin. It’s pure summer bliss.
This recipe is new to me, sent by a friend who knows how much I adore cooking. Unsurprisingly, Southern cooks, legendary in their culinary skills, created a magnificent pie like this.
It is a pie that oozes ripe tomatoes, basil, bacon, and sauteed sweet onions nestled under a crisp, golden brown blanket of melty cheese nestled in a flaky crust.