Do you find yourself staring at gorgeous piles of ripe, colorful summer tomatoes and longing to turn them into something special? Something unforgettable?  If you need a boost of inspiration to make use of the juicy tomatoes in your kitchen and are underwhelmed with your standard summer tomato repertoire, tune into this week’s episode to enhance your home cooking!  This week you’ll learn…. The trick to keeping even the juiciest BLT sandwiches neat and tidy, plus a genius vegetarian version that’s full of flavor and sure to please all the guests at your dinner table.  How to bake a summer tomato tart that even The Great British Bake-Off would approve of, hint: no soggy bottom pies allowed.  An easy recipe that turns sweet cherry tomatoes into a weeknight sheet-pan dinner, helping you get a delicious dinner on the table in minutes Don’t miss out on these six mouth-watering tomato recipes and tune in now to transform your summer cooking!  *** Links to from this week’s show: How to make a bacon weave video from Justin Chapple for Food and Wine, and his BLT recipe An HLT sandwich from the NY Times  – like a BLT but with halloumi  instead Yemenite tomato dip from Ottolenghi Pan con tomate (spanish tomato bread) by Kenji Lopez-Alt for Serious Eats Hoda’s restaurant in Portland, OR A fatoush salad with pomegranate molasses dressing by Reem Assil via Tasting Table  How to make homemade pita chips from Natasha’s Kitchen  Fresh tomato tart by David Leibovitz, and another great tomato tart from Smitten Kitchen  Paneer with burst cherry tomato sauce by Sohla El-Waylly for Bon Appetit 10-minute sausage skillet with cherry tomatoes and broccoli by Anna Stockwell for Epicurious Simply Tomato cookbook by Martha Holmberg, and her tips on frying up tomato leaves 57 summer tomato ideas from Bon Appetit *** We love hearing from you — follow us on Instagram @foodfriendspod, or drop us a line at [email protected]! Or give us a CALL on our kitchen phone! 323-452-9084 Sign up for Sonya’s free Substack, or order her debut cookbook Braids for more Food Friends recipes!