Fresh Tomato Salad

Easy to make, with pretty easily obtainable ingredients, and with a variety of tomato types used.

Ingredients (multiple servings):

 

3 fresh and ripe Roma tomatoes, cut into bite-size pieces

2 ripe medium tomatoes, cut into bite-size pieces

12 ripe grape tomatoes, halved

1 medium heirloom tomato, cut into bite-size pieces

1/4 cup finely chopped red onion

6 medium to large basil leaves, torn or cut into pieces

1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric

(optional) 1 heaping tablespoon capers

1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper (cayenne) or 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika 

In a bowl, add all of the ingredients and mix together well. Cover and refrigerate a minimum of 2 hours.

Fresh tomato salad, here with pieces of some salt stick rolls ...

WORD HISTORY:

Locate (location)-"Locate" is distantly related, through Indo European, to "stall" (noun for pen for animals) and "stall" (verb for "loss of power to move forward, come to a standstill, to delay," a word that goes back to the Germanic roots of English, but later with some French influence, which was derived from Germanic Frankish, and to "lieu" (commonly used in the phrase "in lieu of"), "local/locale," Latin-derived words borrowed by English from French, and to the "loco-" part of "locomotive" and "locomotion" borrowed from Latin (although the actual word "locomotive" is a borrowing from French). "Locate" goes back to Indo European "stel," meaning "to place, to set into a place, to put into a place," and this gave Latin the noun "locus" (via Italic "stlocos" and early Latin "stlocus"), meaning "a place, a spot, an area, a position," and from this developed the verb "locare" meaning "to put, to place, to set into position or into a place," one of the participle forms of which was "locatus," and from this English formed the verb "locate" in the early part of the 1500s, originally meaning "to settle into a place to live, to set up a business in a place," later also, "to find someone's or something's place (location)." "Location" was borrowed from Latin in the second half of the 1500s from "locatio" (accusative: "locationem"), meaning "a place, the state of being in a certain place," later adding, "an occupied place, a place available to be occupied for living or business, a leased place."