These are a few of my favorite things.

Andrew is doing his workout tonight, so we are having a "light" dinner.

I stopped by the new farmer's market/grocery store on my way home because I was craving tomatoes. Actually, I was craving salt and olive oil and bread. The tomatoes just tie it all together, and make me feel less guilty about eating salt and olive oil and bread for dinner. I am not going to go into how much I love salt and olive oil today. But let's just say that THEY are to ME like raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens are to Julie Andrews.

The new market used to be called Biggest Banana. I was very excited going there for the first time, because I really wanted to fall in love with it. Who wouldn't want to love a market called Biggest Banana? But seriously, many people know that I have an odd, unnatural affection for grocery stores/ food markets, and I had high expectations. But BB was a disappointment. It smelled funny when I walked in, and most of the produce was mush and had fruit flies. It was embarrassing because there were no other customers, and when I walked in, all of the workers turned to look. So I couldn't very well walk out empty-handed. I think I ended up with some onions that were a bit past the firm stage. Anyway, I was very excited when it closed for "renovations" and a few weeks later, there was a sign out front that said: Farmers Market coming soon. Now, "Farmer's Market" does not have the same ring to it as "Biggest Banana," but it has proven to be much less of a disappointment. When I stopped in today, I had first picked up some plum tomatoes for 59 cents per pound, but then came across the red, shiny and wonderfully round "tomatoes on the vine" for 99 cents per pound. Wow! Bye bye plum tomatoes.

I tossed them with some basil from my windowsill pot, kosher salt (from my happy tomato salt pig), and some (ok, a lot) of extra virgin olive oil. This + crusty italian bread= HEAVEN.

Does it count as a light dinner if you eat a whole loaf of bread?