Tomato and Avocado Salad Recipe

A light, refreshing Tomato and Avocado Salad is perfect for all of your summer celebrations! Ready for the table in just 10 minutes, you can serve this salad for a quick summer lunch or at any summer party. It goes great with any grilled protein, from fish to chicken or steak, and everybody loves it!

There’s about to be a glut of something around here. That would be tomatoes. And I couldn’t be happier! A fresh tomato picked at the peak of ripeness and eaten still warm from the sun’s rays…why that’s just about as close to perfection as you can get.

I’ve always grown tomatoes. Even in the years when I don’t plant much of a garden, I always have tomatoes.

However, in the place where we live now, it has become almost impossible to grow anything at all because of the deer and squirrel population. If the deer don’t eat it, the squirrels do. Even all the little apples off our tree.

Have you ever seen a squirrel try to wrestle an apple down a tree without dropping it? After you get over your fury at the squirrel for mutilating your crop (once again), it can be downright hilarious.

Here’s this teeny little squirrel with a huge mouthful of apple, trying to maneuver the very limber limbs of an apple tree. It’s nearly as entertaining as when BeeBop puts oil on the bird feeder post so they can’t climb up it.

Enjoy Fresh Tomatoes While You Can

Of course, one of my most favorite ways to enjoy fresh, ripe garden tomatoes is in a tomato sandwich. I love the simple, classic one consisting of two slices of soft, white bread spread thickly with good mayonnaise, topped with slices of juicy tomato, and lots of salt and pepper. Hold over the sink and eat it while the juice drips down your arm. Yum. Summer.

When you get tired of tomato sandwiches (What! As if!), here’s another idea for those beauties. A Tomato and Avocado Salad with onion and cilantro, dressed simply with lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper. It’s almost as yummy as a tomato sandwich!