Tomatoes
I arrived back in Iowa yesterday evening after a week-long trip to Denver to visit my parents. I had planned to pull something out of the freezer instead of cooking.
Then I saw what my tomato plants were up to while I was gone...
...and I decided I needed to cook something involving tomatoes.
My tomato plants before I left on vacation:
This actually isn't all the tomatoes that were ripe. This is just what I got while the pasta cooked (getting several mosquito bites and letting several moths in the apartment in the process.)
When I started picking tomatoes I noticed many of them were cracked. This made me sad. Then I read on the Internet that you can still eat cracked tomatoes by cutting off the cracked part unless the rest of the tomato looks icky. This made me much less sad.
Apparently the cracks are caused by uneven watering -- watering less when the tomato starts to ripen, then more as ripening continues. Oops. Guilty as charged.
What do you do with lots of tomatoes and no time? You make an uncooked tomato pasta sauce, that's what.
I still have quite a few ripe tomatoes out there. Hopefully they'll hang on for a few more days while I get caught up, tomato-wise.
Then I saw what my tomato plants were up to while I was gone...
...and I decided I needed to cook something involving tomatoes.
My tomato plants before I left on vacation:
This actually isn't all the tomatoes that were ripe. This is just what I got while the pasta cooked (getting several mosquito bites and letting several moths in the apartment in the process.)
When I started picking tomatoes I noticed many of them were cracked. This made me sad. Then I read on the Internet that you can still eat cracked tomatoes by cutting off the cracked part unless the rest of the tomato looks icky. This made me much less sad.
Apparently the cracks are caused by uneven watering -- watering less when the tomato starts to ripen, then more as ripening continues. Oops. Guilty as charged.
What do you do with lots of tomatoes and no time? You make an uncooked tomato pasta sauce, that's what.
I still have quite a few ripe tomatoes out there. Hopefully they'll hang on for a few more days while I get caught up, tomato-wise.