Summer Salads: Caprese Pasta Salad
This week is all about pasta salads…just not your typical pasta salads. Although, since tomatoes are ripening, most will probably have tomatoes in them. LOL This one is a regular at the dinner table....
View ArticleTomatoes: So Close
These shall be protected from the troublesome Trixie These are Park Whoppers, still small, but it’s early in the season, and these set not long after I transplanted them. These are the San Marzanos – a...
View ArticleFinally Harvesting From The Garden
Despite an early start to all my seedlings this spring, harvest is late this year. Finally pulling enough tomatoes to do something besides adding them to salads and making my favorite Cucumber Tomato...
View ArticleTomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes
After a very slow and late start, the tomatoes are coming in quickly. It looks like last night’s hail storm didn’t do as much damage I was worried it had and the tomato harvest will continue. I have...
View ArticleLonging for Summer
I brought a tomato in last fall. It has graced me with 3 small tomatoes, not bad for being in a small pot on a sunny counter. I must say, even for growing indoors under less-than-ideal conditions, the...
View ArticleFirst Tomato (Finally!)
The first tomato went into BLTs! Yummy. And those are cucumbers from my neighbor, who knew mine were not quite ready to pick. Things to remember to make a perfect BLT – wait until the toast cools to...
View ArticleTomatoes on Everything!
My tomatoes are finally ripening and it’s time to start thinking about freezing tomato puree. But until then, fresh tomatoes on everything! This is super simple. I pureed a tomato along with dried...
View ArticleMore Tomatoes, Now With Perfect Buns
I’ve been keeping the tomato servings pretty simple these days. Sliced, salads, and my cucumber tomato recipe. My favorite is tomatoes with lettuce and mayo on bread. I thought I would up the game...
View ArticleOn Tomatoes and Bread and a Big Ole Great Dane
This was going to be a post about how few tomatoes I had this year. I only pureed about 6 of these bags. Last year, in what I thought was an off year, I had double. Friends about 20 miles north had a...
View ArticleThe Last To Ripen
I harvested about 30 mature green tomatoes on the vine before the first hard frost. I left the immature ones to compost. I keep them on the vine when I harvest them and ripen them in a brown bag,...
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