I LOVE tomatoes.
Well there's not too much I don't love.
It's a problem.
le
I love garden fresh tomatoes. Thanks for sharing
. My grandma use to make a dish called breaded tomatoes. To recite the recipe, it would sound yucky, but it was sooooo delicious.
Wish we could send you some, ladies. We only need about 10 of 'em, and are running out of people to give them to.
Canning tomatoes is pretty simple. You should look into that.
le
I'm severly countrified, le. We've got jars of mayhaw, blackberry, and muscadine jelly, plum butter, peach preserves, green beans, pickles of all sorts, tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, and even a few jars of jalapenos.
So any excuse to NOT jar vegetables is both considered and sought after. Mostly because the job always falls entirely on me, and I'm lazy .
So I give them away if I can, because vine ripened tomatoes are as different from store-bought ones as night is to day. Canning them seems to lessen the difference. Plus, there's the 'lazy' thing .
Yes, lazy. I must be a little bit country.
le
ps What's mayhaw?
le
It's a super sour berry from a certain type of hawthorn tree that ripens in the first week of May (hence, may-hawthorn, or mayhaw). Here's a pic. They make a very good jelly, but that's about it. We've got about a dozen of them in the (non-choppable) forested part of our land, so it falls on me to aquire them.
Hey, have you ever asked your kids for help in doing menial labor? If so, what's the trick? They've yet to give me the finger, but everything short of that, they've done.
What's the trick? Pay them.
My kids are all growed and gone now. But I remember the good old days when they were here whining and complaining and unappreciating. Sigh.
le
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