CONGRATULATIONS SAGE ON WINNING TWO TICKETS TO THE HEIRLOOM TOMATO FEST.
It’s been a challenging year for tomatoes, but their moment to shine is finally here.
This Saturday, Sept. 11, Kendall-Jackson celebrates its 14th Annual Heirloom Tomato Festival from 11am to 4pm. More than 170 varieties of heirloom tomatoes in every size, shape and color will be picked fresh from their own Culinary Gardens for sampling, along with dozens of amazing chefs serving up tomato-inspired dishes, a Chef’s Challenge with former Top Chef challengers Hosea Rosenberg, Chris “CJ” Jacobson and Ryan Scott from SF taking on KJ’s own top chef, Justin Wangler. Marcy Smothers and former Food and Wine best new chef E. Michael Reidt from B and O in Baltimore will MC the event. World-famous pizza tosser, Tony Gemignani, will show-off his skills in a tossing demo, and of course, plenty of Kendall-Jackson wines to sip. Tickets are $65 per person, available online.
Want to win two tickets? Submit a tomato-inspired haiku below and one lucky winner will be headed to KJ this Saturday. Full contest rules here…
So, which Haiku won? thanks
My husband hates them
I guess opposites do mate
Sounds like girls day out!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Heirloom tomato
I dont know how to haiku
A winning ticket is sweet
and so are YOU ;-P
Gotta love flavor
that evolves as you touch it.
Summer’s fruits yield bliss.
Introduce new love
Ripening slowly, abrupt
Sweetness in my mouth
my fat tomatoes
mellow in that sunny spot
–the cats supervise
Red, yellow, green & purple too!
Sunshine sweetness from the vine…
Tastebuds “POP” when you combine with Kendall Jackson wine!
Sweet red tomatoe
Romanced and kissed by the sun
Reaping a bitter vine
Grown from a mere seed
Heirlooms burst with colors
Unique and SAVORY
Heirloom tomatoes
Sweetness Abundance
Bring joy to the soul
The heirlooms ripen,
both exalted by the sun
and afraid to burn.
Fat yellow tear drops
Clustered like grapes on the vine
Sweet and Succulent
ode to an heirloom
toothsome flesh, this sweet, acid fruit
Monsanto, ha ha
tried to volunteer
have to wait until next year
hope to go and love!
PS…I clicked on the wikipedia link for “haiku” and learned so much more about haikus! Never knew that it wasn’t truly just syllabic! Not that I understood any of the explanation provided about “moras,” but thanks, Heather, for broadening my poetic horizons!
tried to volunteer
have to wait until next year
hope to go and enjoy!
PS…I clicked on the wikipedia link for “haiku” and learned so much more about haikus! Never knew that it wasn’t truly just syllabic! Not that I understood any of the explanation provided about “moras,” but thanks, Heather, for broadening my poetic horizons!
I am replying to myself because I realized my first haiku had too many syllables in the last line!
big round juicy red
just picked off the vine
my idea of divine
plump round and red
just picked freshly off the vine
my dream of Divine
Free tickets I need
to eat at Kendal-Jackson’s
Luscious fruit of joy
NAUGHT FOR NAUGHT
OT AM OT
PATIENCE
You can’t write (or eat) just one…
yellow orbs aglow
black krims in their sultry skins
summer settles in
sliced, diced, fried and green
the nightshade’s fruit pleases all
with a taste sublime
Red, orange, yellow,
green, purple orbs – delicious
summer fruits arrive.
Red ripe juicy ,yum!
Sweet and succulant goodness
waiting so long on the vine
warm days, cool nights
green, yellow, red
aroma…taste of heaven
Please oh please turn red
Unless you’re an heirloom beauty
Red, yellow, geeen, purple, orange, white
Round, oval, segmented, striated
TOMATO
Still green on the vine
Waiting for the red kaboom
Summer’s not the same this year
oops, should read “Summer’s not the same!”
Tomatoes are love
They ripen in the Sunshine
Are sweet with a bite!
Sun ripened beauty
Taste and color, none alike
Acidic delight..
Summer in a red orange skin
sauce on my plate
juice on my chin
Tomato
announces
summer is
here
Tomato
announces
summer is
here
Skin. Pulp. Juice running
down chin, tongue slurping goodness.
Summer I can eat.
Hi Heather, I submit the following for a chance to win
The Tomato
Begins life as a seed
Plant in earth and water to feed
A sprout will soon show
Which is a sign it is starting to grow
A few months go by and you will see
The blossoms of fruit with anticipated glee
After several more weeks go by
The fruit appears to the watchful eye
As they ripen from green to red
Don’t stay up watching and go to bed
When ripe they are picked by men and women of action
Then you feast on all sorts of them at the Kendall-Jackson
Plump, luscious ruby
An explosion in my mouth
Sweet and tangy pop!
Funky looking fruits
Hundreds of varieties
Heirloom tomatoes
Angel Hair Pasta
Add Basil and Tomatoes
Plus E.V.O.O.
Heirloom Tomatoes
I thought they were only red
Guess I’m not that old