We have a bumper crop of tomatoes this year and pick seven or eight of these beauties every morning. They taste so much better than the tomatoes from the store. And I hate to pay such high prices for store tomatoes that don't taste that good in the first place. Of course, now we don't know what to do with them all. Share them with co-workers, eat them for lunch, put them on sandwiches and if all else fails, make them into fresh tomato sauce for pasta. My favorite is to saute them lightly with green onions, olive oil, red pepper flakes and salt and pepper, and just put them fresh right on the spaghetti. I call it 'summer spaghetti'.
This year we managed to fight off our friend Chuckie the Woodchuck, who lives under our garage, to get at our tomatoes before he did. The plants are huge and heavy and not that well organized, but they are really prolific. Must be that good compost we put into the soil in the spring. Off to work with my bag of give-away tomatoes.
Have a great day!
