John: So here’s a cooking, not a cooking product, but a salad product I think is salad. And it is pumpkin seed oil.
Adam: It’s a seed oil. It’s going to kill you!
John: It’s expeller extracted. You want the good stuff so it won’t kill you. But pumpkin seed oil, you can not have it if you don’t want it, but it was foisted upon me when on a visit to Slovenia, of all places, where it’s used constantly in all the salad bars and all over town, they always have a jar of this pumpkin seed oil that they put on everything. Mostly on salads, like there’s a normal salad dressing and you add some pumpkin seed oil.
And I was told there, and you can look this up, it might be true, that it prevents prostate cancer. And so pumpkin seed oil, which you can get, you can get it from various sources that carry a lot of different kinds of variety of oils, and you can also buy it on Amazon. You don’t want the pumpkin seed tablets or anything like that. You want the oil so you can use it for the following recipe, which is perfect for this tomato season. We’re in tomato season right now, right in the middle of the tomato season. Take and get the ripest tomato you can and slice it, put it across the plate and salt it with some fleur de sel and then use pretty much equal amounts of balsamic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil, which looks like balsamic vinegar. It’s a dark toasted oil. And just the combination of balsamic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil and the salt and the tomato: absolute killer.
Adam: Hey, tomato season, most people just go to the supermarket and they see tomatoes all the time. Is it tomato season for American tomatoes?
John: Yeah, for our tomatoes. The good fresh ones you want to get at the farmer’s market. You don’t want to buy grocery store tomatoes. They’re no good.
Adam: They got that Bill Gates wax on it.
John: You go to a farmer’s market, everyone’s got a farmer’s market, especially down in the south, there’s tons of them, where you can get the super fresh tomatoes that are just picked off the vine or grow some tomatoes yourself.
Adam: Do you recommend a particular type of tomato for this?
John: One of the best tomatoes that generally grows well everywhere is an ace tomatoe. It has a good tomato flavor. It’s not an heirloom by any means, but it’s a good tomato. Beefsteaks and all the rest of them are all good. They’re tasty, especially if they come out right. But this pumpkin seed oil and balsamic vinegar on a tomato right now is dynamite.