BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato

Subject: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 07:57 AM

Sandwich.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: bobad
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:03 AM

That's what I'm having for lunch these days.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:09 AM

Justr had strong cheese and buttered toast. Accompanied by a sort of salsa I made, fresh skinned tomatoes, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, crushed garlic, sea salt, and some chopped fresh basil.
Yummy

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,giovanni
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:10 AM

Be jealous - I get to eat Italian tomatoes every day.

g

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:19 AM

Homegrown Tomatoes by Guy Clark

Chorus:

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes,
What'd life be without home grown Tomatoes,
There's only two things that money can't buy:
True love and home grown tomatoes.


1. There's nothin' in the world that I like better than
Bacon, lettuce and home grown tomatoes
Up in the morning and out in the garden
Pick you a ripe one, don't get a hard 'un.
Plant 'em in the springtime eat 'em in the summer,
All winter without 'em's a culinary bummer.
I forget all about the sweatin and the diggin
Every time I go out and pick me a big'un.

CHORUS

2.
You can go out and eat'em that's for sure,
But there's nothin a home grown tomato won't cure
You can put em in a salad, put em in a stew
You can make your own, your very own tomato juice
You can eat em with eggs, you can eat em with gravy
You can eat em with beans, pinto or navy
Put em on the side, put em on the middle
Home grown tomatoes on a hot cake griddle

CHORUS

3.
If I could change this life I lead,
You could call me Johnny Tomato Seed
I know what this country needs,
It's home grown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cold dark cemetery
Out in the garden would be much better
Where I could be pushin up those home grown tomatoes.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:25 AM

Ain't it the truth.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:26 AM

Wesley, great minds . . .

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:30 AM

Red- and brown-sauce, as in my poem "One-Pot Cooking" - http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/walkaboutsverse-93-of-230.html

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:44 AM

We've got 4 different varieties... Two eating kinds (Celebrity and Cherokee purple) and two different Romas for freezing for marinara and other winter sauces/stews...

But, yeah... We are loving the eating kind... I won't eat a tomato the rest of the year so hopefully we'll have a late frost and keep these going into November...

BTW, we feed 'um chicken manure every two to three weeks... That is the secret to getting lots of tomatoes out of your plants...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 09:27 AM

I tried making a vanilla smoothie one day with anchovies and tomatoes. Talk about yer culinary screw-ups.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 09:49 AM

Just at the height of our home grown harvest as I pig out on 'mater sammiches, I get a damn canker sore! For an guy who eats a lot of tomato base foods and also spicy foods, a canker sore results in a major diet change to get them to heal sooner.......damn things take almost 2 weeks anyway but if you persist in the acidic foods its worse.

At the height of tomato season this proves there is no fairness in life...........................


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: MarkS
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 10:01 AM

Nothing better - but they break your heart.

Go away for a few days vacation, and when you get back you find that they all went ripe at once, there was some rain, so all fruit is split and cracked and rotting on the vine.

Sigh

Mark

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 10:14 AM

We have had a terrible summer, with drought and temps over 100, yet my tomatoes are producing. I'm getting enough to eat and plenty to freeze.

Spaw, sometimes the dermatologist has to freeze pre-cancerous cells on my face. This produces a red area almost like a burn. They tell me to apply Vaseline to the sore spots because keeping a wound moist helps it heal from within. Do you suppose that would help your canker sores heal faster? What could it hurt to try?

They also told me to keep Vaseline on an incision. Same philosophy.

Bobert, in an emergency, cherry tomatoes are pretty good in winter. I too freeze tomatoes for winter cooking. Sometimes I whiz a few and make salad dressing from them. It tastes wonderful, but you have to eat by candlelight because red tomatoes on green lettuce look kinda weird.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 10:19 AM

Never even heard of a plain tomato sandwich.

In the UK we tend to pair tomato with either ham or even more commonly, cheese (inevitably cheddar). The best being a cheese and tomato "toastie" wherein the cheese is melted, the tomatoes grilled and sliced and the bread toasted and buttered.

We do however have the "cucumber sandwich" - finely sliced cucumber, buttered bread removed of it's crusts and cut into little triangles, though it's more of an old fashioned thing and less common now than it once was.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 10:30 AM

CS, I'd expect--at least here in eastern Canada--that this time of year tomato sandwiches, with either plain or toasted bread--would be more common than even hamburgers. Many people dress the sandwich with butter, mayonnaise, or a combo of the two. Bitta salt and pepper and boom, Bob's yer uncle.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 12:47 PM

Good bread and real butter suits me fine although I too like mayo and the combo of the two. Karen's favorite as was her grandad's is peanut butter and tomato open faced.

Karen also made a beautiful batch of Panzella which I had to give up on too, but it was one helluva' fine batch!

Canker sore at the height of tomato season.......proves there is no god.



Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 02:31 PM

That's Panzanella.....gotta pruufreed betor................


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 03:10 PM

I prefer the tang of Miracle Whip rather than mayo. I SLATHER it on both sides of cracked wheat toast and put way too much pepper on both sides. I prefer field tomatoes as opposed to the hydro toms* we get here from TO (well, Massivesawgwaw - Kent County spellin) in the winter and I slice em a half inch thick. A half a sammy with a huge glass of COLD water is a meal.

* Oh, I eat em. They are cheap. Just something "uneasy" about a tomatoe, or anything else, grown in a medium that contains no real dirt. Eh?

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 03:29 PM

Yeah, Gnu, I too prefer Miracle Whip.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 03:56 PM

Karen's with ou guys....I want Hellman's. Btw....Vegemite goes pretty well too especially on toasted bread. Very different, but a nice juxtaposition of flavor especially with a little cream cheese.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 04:43 PM

Cream cheese... oh geezzzze!

I am buyin tomatoes tomorrow! As I type, I have salt cod fishcakes on the fry. Eat yer hearts out.

WAAAAy off topic... honey tangerines from South Africa are in the stores here now. I would buy US but the season is over. I never buy fruit from "away" but honey tangerines are the exception.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Gurney
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 05:03 PM

Well, almost any other fruit. Even some vegetables.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Bert
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 05:09 PM

...What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato sandwich?...

One made with home made bread and with a little salt on it.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 05:13 PM

I'm with Gurney. Cannot eat a fresh tomato. Have tried and given up. Soup, salsa, sauce are fine, good even, but not fresh.

But R loves them and I think that sandwich described above would be a nice treat for him. I'll try that with thanks. I have done an open face in the toaster oven - tomato under cheese - cheddar of course. And maybe some salsa on the bottom for tang.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 05:41 PM

Just home from a hard day's work. Think I'll go out in the garden and eat me a ripe one before I have my beef stew that i made last night from potatoes, carrots, turnip, onions, peas and yellow beans (string beans)that I planted.

I have tried also a fresh tomato sliced on a spread of salmon as a sandwich. Very good indeed.
Spaw, my heart goes out to you. I was thinking just a few days ago that i hoped that no canker would develop. Fingers are crossed. Last year i got them and i think it was because i was pigging out on those sweet things.
John, I must try your recipe. Bet it would wash down real nice with a good cold beer.
Guy Clarke has been one of my favorites singers since way way back when. I have his album with Home Grown Tomatoes on it and i have sang it many times. Thanks Wesley and 999 for posting what you did. Brought back fine memories.
Thank you all.
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 07:05 PM

We had a lot of rain this season north of Atlanta - so we're enjoying a bountiful crop of roma and cherry tomatoes.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 07:19 PM

Just poppin' one or three of those little ones from Beer's garden like grapes wasn't half bad.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: michaelr
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 07:29 PM

What's better? Not much. Foie gras with truffles, maybe...

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Janie
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 07:53 PM

My two little cherry tomatoes have been very sad this year, but for the last 6 weeks clients have been gifting us generously with tomatoes. (No, we ain't 'sposed to accept gifts, but I ain't about to turn down a home grown tomato!)

I'm not much for mater sammiches. I'll take mine, especially something scrumptious like a big German Johnson, sliced thick and smiling up at me from between the corn-on-the-cob and the half-runner green beans, thank you!

Although....one person keeps bringing us Amish Salad tomatoes. A new variety to me, and boy, are they fine! My own tomatoes haven't done diddlysquat, but the basil has thrived. Tonight I'm chopping up a humongous bunch of basil with those tomatoes, fresh mozzarella from the local farmers market and a bit of olive oil, and sliced German Johnson's on the side!

My son loves vine ripe tomatoes so much he eats them out-of-hand like an apple. (Now, if I can only get him to mop the floor and pretreat his laundry afterwards:>)

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:19 PM

"... sliced German Johnson's on the side..."

Now... dear... you KNOW this place is full of perverts eh?

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:27 PM

Wouldn't that make the German also Jewish?


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:41 PM

See?

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 09:09 PM

Re posting this because i started it about 3 hours ago and then got busy with visitors.



Just home from a hard day's work. Think I'll go out in the garden and eat me a ripe one before I have my beef stew that i made last night from potatoes, carrots, turnip, onions, peas and yellow beans (string beans)that I planted.

I have tried also a fresh tomato sliced on a spread of salmon as a sandwich. Very good indeed.
Spaw, my heart goes out to you. I was thinking just a few days ago that i hoped that no canker would develop. Fingers are crossed. Last year i got them and i think it was because i was pigging out on those sweet things.
John, I must try your recipe. Bet it would wash down real nice with a good cold beer.
Guy Clarke has been one of my favorites singers since way way back when. I have his album with Home Grown Tomatoes on it and i have sang it many times. Thanks Wesley and 999 for posting what you did. Brought back fine memories.
Thank you all.
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 09:28 PM

Strange, I wrote a lot more but it is missing. Well here is a different take as I'm sure i can't remember all that i wrote earlier.

Bobert! Chicken shit sounds good. Wish I had some. Chicken Shit that is.

MarkS.......How true. i will be leaving very soon for a short vacation but when i get back i know that I will not be able to consume all which will be ready in the garden. Compose i guess.

O.M. God cs.Never heard of plain tomato sandwich, try it. You will love it.

Miracle Whip. i stopped using it about a month ago when i heard that it was all synthetic. I never did like mayo..... but i thought i would go back to it for a try. Not bad at all. Give it a second try fellows.
Bert, you got it right. Dead on.
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Janie
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 10:06 PM

Grew up with Miracle Whip, and then with a man for 25 years who was Hellmans all the way.

I'm fine with either.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 14 Aug 12 - 10:26 PM

Lol!!! Like your response.
still smiling.
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Janie
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 12:30 AM

It be the 'mater what matter's, come summertime, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Then a Fresh Tomato
From: Janie
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 12:37 AM

must learn to restrain the apostrophes. apostrophe's. apostrophes'.

but me pinkie loves love's loves' 'em....

Almost as much as home grown tomatoes!

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Gurney
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 01:55 AM

Italian plum tomatoes, now! Skin 'em with boiling water, squash them in a frying pan, dry them 'till they're sticky..... Sharp but not acid. Perfect with bacon.
In fact, the BEST thing to go with fried bacon.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 08:54 AM

Gurney, can you explain your recipe a little more. I don't understand you saying to dry them 'till they're sticky.
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Sawzaw
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 09:15 AM

You can't beat a home grown fresh 'mater sandwich.

The best tomatoes I ever had I grew myself.

There was an old chicken pen on my property that had grown up with weeds. I took a disc harrow made from an old horse drawn disc harrow and hitched it to my one lung Economy tractor. I towed it round and round thru the weeds and honey suckle for about 4 hours until the dirt was all tilled up about 6" deep. I did not have a plow.

Then I planted seedlings I had started indoors, in mounds about 6 feet by 6 feet apart with plenty of fertilizer way down in a hole under the mounds.

I put a round cage made from 6" mesh concrete reinforcement wire around each mound.

Some of those tomatoes had to be juggled around to come out thru the 6" mesh. They were the sweetest and finest I ever had.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Crowhugger
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 09:30 AM

To answer the OP, not much is better than that. Ahhhhhhh, yum yum yummy! I'm along for the annual tomato ride same as every year of my entire life from early or mid August until medium frost (most folks will protect at least a few plants from light frost). Pretty well everyone I know eats a bijillion backyard- or local-tomato sandwiches at this time of year. We're not talking tomatoes in stuff or with stuff, we're talking instead of stuff.

The standard around here is: Sandwiches usually toasted (takes longer to get soggy), with or without mayo/MW, pepper, and salt usually sprinkled but sometimes it's in the form of cheese or bacon. The first week mostly it's just sprinkled salt, no adulterations. Usual dose is twice daily for the first two weeks of the season, then at least once daily till no longer available. Add a few of sun-warmed and eaten right in the garden with or without salt and a pluck of nearby basil and call it bliss.

CS, growing up in Ottawa there was almost a kind of honour in how many days in a row you could eat just-tomato sandwiches (except breakfast, don't know why, that's how it was) before you broke down and inserted some other flavours to keep from going starkers.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 09:49 AM

Right on Sawzaw, hard work but sure is worth it.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 10:12 AM

Couldn't wait for your reply Gurney so I went ahead and did it anyway.

-Boiled 2 medium size Beefsteak tomatoes(Didn't want to use my Pink variety ones as they are acid free and I just love eating them right in the garden.).
-Skinned them
-fried 3 slices of bacon. Removed them when crisp.
-drained the fat from the pan.
-added the 2 tomatoes and used a potato masher.
-Fried them till almost all the juice was gone.
-Added the bacon and mixed it up.
-Squared it off in the pan with the spatulia.

-Added a slice of cheese on it till it started melting.
-Put it on toast as a sandwich.
O.M.G.
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 11:50 AM

Yes, there's a certain moment when a freshly ripened tomato seems like the best tasting thing possible.

There's a certain moment like that with fresh mangos too, but it's not generally so easy to get them properly ripened when you live in the temperate regions.

I read somewhere that reading too much Cheech Wizard eventually results in canker sores. There may be something to it, I don't know, but the fact is there's no good reason to be reading Cheech Wizard anyway, so why take the risk? If you do, it could compromise your enjoyment of fresh tomatoes.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 01:03 PM

Reading the Great Hat and living by his lights doesn't create harm or canker sores. The Great Hat is all powerful and a healer. You oughta' try him Hawk. He could cure you of the Clap................


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 02:50 PM

Crusty bread, spread with red pesto, homegrown tommy slices and grated cheese over the top with a dash of Worcestshire Sauce. Grill until cheese bubbles. Yum.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: CupOfTea
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 05:13 PM

This week, all the Ohio grown Red Haven peaches. Fragrant, dripping with juice and a sensual delight without equal.

And they don't contribute to acid reflux like tomatoes do. I miss tomatoes, but I'd suffer a fair bit for a few local peaches those few weeks they're ripe if I had to.

Y'all enjoy all the wond'rous home grown tomaters for me, please.

Joanne in Cleveland

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 05:33 PM

"O.M. God cs.Never heard of plain tomato sandwich, try it. You will love it."

I know - it's a shocker!

I have tomato plants with green toms on right now. England's Summer is slower than yours of course but when ripe, I'll toast some bread and have a cheese free cheese and tomato toastie.

Sounds definitely a bit weird to me, without the cheese, though maybe I'll be converted by my own toms once they ripen? After all my partner never has been into radishes in all the years I've known him, but I swear the sheer crunchy, peppery, juiciness of his own homegrown radishes (at least to hear him speak of it) is quite something!

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 10:26 PM

Well CS, I have never tried "Fried Green Tomatoes" and I am told there is nothing like it. I believe that. However, this fall i will definitely try it. How about you? Have you tried it?
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Sawzaw
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 10:43 PM

Hey Beer:

Do you like tomato juice in your beer?

Seriously. I heard that guys from Pittsburgh and central PA like something called Red Eye. They put a little can of Snap-E Tom spicy tomato juice in their mug of beer at a beer joint.

I tried it and it is good. I also like my beer on the rocks. It tastes much wetter and colder that way.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 15 Aug 12 - 11:48 PM

Lol!!
I love tomato juice in my beer but i try to avoid it.

Why you ask? Because I will drink twice as much.
Man do i love it with tomato juice. I also really like it with clamato juice. Tripping out on cheap home made brew.
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 12 - 07:16 AM

Hey Joanne.......One of my best childhood memories is the drive to the Lake and buying peaches. We'd pull over somewhere and sit with doors open and our legs outside so we could each those wonderful, sweet, and dripping peaches. My wife grew up in Georgia and the first time we went to the Lake she couldn't believe how great those peaches are.   It is hard for people to think of Ohio as a great peach state but damn...........I've never tasted better.

We also make great swiss cheese and our winemakers are pretty fair. And for my money, Great Lakes makes the best beers around anywhere.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Sawzaw
Date: 16 Aug 12 - 08:31 AM

There is a Bud lite Chelada drink with clam juice a little spice and tomato juice. it's great but a little expensive.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Aug 12 - 01:05 PM

Hi Joanne......One of my best memories of childhood were drives around the Lake and buying peaches. We pulled off the road and had to eat them outside the car as those sweet and juicy peaches were definitely not driving food. When I moved back home with wife Karen who grew up in Georgia, we went up to the Lake and she was astounded that she ate the best peaches she ever tasted in Ohio!

We also do a pretty fair job on the Ohio wines too not to mention we not only make GREAT Swiss cheese but we also produce more of it than anywhere else in the country.

But damn if we still don't have the best peaches anywhere!

Tell me you're voting for Sherrod..............


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Aug 12 - 05:58 PM

Well, well, well...

We thought that we didn't get a Cherokee Purple Plum tomato because we got our seedlings mixed up and gave 'um away but the P-Vine was checkin' on a cantaloupe this afternoon and there in the middle of the asparagus is a fine volunteer that came up from last years seed... Got a dozen or so off it and a cuke and fresh basil and nice little salad to go with steamed shrimp... Yummy...

By the way, tghere is something better than a fresh tomato and thems is some full figured Floozies at the Getaway... Yezzir... Fat bottom girls make the world go round...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 16 Aug 12 - 06:52 PM

clamato juice... salty clam piss in tom juice. You ever show up at my door with that shit and yer sleepin in yer truck.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Sawzaw
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 11:48 AM

Peaches?

One summer I was taking my kids camping in my old ford camper van up around Chambersburg PA and there was more peaches for sale along rt 30 than you could shake a stick at.

After a while I broke down and bought a whole big basket. We was ridin' along munching on those peaches with juice drippin' off of our elbows and before I knew it I had eaten about 6. At about the same time I innards sent me an urgent message: find a bathroom somewhere real quick.

I am tellin' you, I barely made it.

So be careful when you light into a bunch of peaches.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 01:06 PM

I don't know if anything is better than a fresh tomato. However, I think fresh butter and sugar corn on the cob is a close runner-up. If any of you don't use the same term, butter and sugar corn has both white and yellow small kernels on each cob. I used to eat it with butter but gave that up for health reasons. Now I love it plain but eat only one cob a day and count it as a starch, not a vegetable. I also eat the smallest cobs I can find. It's the only corn on the cob I eat, and I look forward to it every summer.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 02:20 PM

Good peaches & cream corn (same kinda stuff) is to be enjoyed without anything on it. I don't buy the cobs... too expensive. The frozen corn is usually just as good if you use it well before the due date and BARELY cook it.

Cooked a chicken dinner last night and the veggies were deeeelicious! The new spuds, butternut squash, carrots and turnip were soooo good with NO salt, pepper, butter.

BTW, I dunno about where youse all are but I am loading up on everything from soup to nuts. Long grain rice from US just went up $0.125/Kg. I could cite more than a dozen items other than various grains but when I see grain prices jumping I get jumpy. I loaded up on chicken, pork sirloin, round and cross rib beef all at $2 a pound on accounta I figure that will at least double in the next thirty days. I am freezing cherriesssss galore. I figure that spending $100 now will save me at least $10 over the next 6 months. That's a good ROI these days.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 08:09 PM

Just finished 6 corn (peaches and cream) with me wife. $2.00 Canadian. Excellent.
There can be found out there many products that are as pleasing as fresh tomatoes (well almost that is.). Take some young small potatoes boiled along with fresh yellow beans served with butter and a little salt & pepper. Now that is a great treat.
I also love to stick my nose in a cup of wild strawberries and take a deep smell before eating all which took hours to pick. Not the tame ones as there is no comparison.
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 08:26 PM

"So be careful when you light into a bunch of peaches."

I love peaches, but years back I developed one serious allergic reaction to I suspect a mould that I didn't notice. Now, I have to drop each in peach in boiling water for ten seconds, move them to ice cold water, peal 'em and eat. They're worth the trouble, but not that often here in Quebec, considering the cost.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 19 Aug 12 - 08:32 PM

Beer... ya mean the wee wild strawbwrries I assume. I got a shitload on my front lawn. But my back won't let me pick em so they get mowed.

I know a spot up country where they grow near a half inch or bettetr in diameter. HEAVENLY! But, the local strawberries (NB & NS) are close in taste and they don't have the SEEDS! The ones in the stores here from the southern States and Cal suck big time... way to many big seeds and very little taste. Anyone with bowels over twenty years old can't eat those US strawberries and survive thru the night.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Sawzaw
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 02:30 PM

Speakin' of Beer, I believe the best beer I ever has was Kokanee Glacier Beer.

Bought it at a hotel Bar in Atlin BC. All these rough tough gold miner guys were sitting around drinking them. They looked so tough that I got mine to go and drank it out beside the lake.

I can't find it anywhere in the US.

The worst I ever had was Turbodog from New Orleans. I think Carlson Elephant Beer might be the second worst.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 05:16 PM

a fresher tomato or sweet corn 3 minutes from stalk to boiling water.
or

Giraffe malt liquor from Denmark only.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 08:40 PM

I have tried Kokanee and it it is a very good beer. Good with a tomato sandwich on the side.
Here is another way you can do your corn Donuel. And it works because when you are just 2 in the house it is much quicker. Love corn by the way.
Found it on You/tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBF6bv4Oe4&feature=my_favorites&list=FLtDSdt3u5wJh_ciIhvi19cw

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 08:47 PM

Well, I hate to saw it but this is the point in every summer where I have had my fill or tomatoes... Well, not really, my fill but...

...just kinda need to take a two or three day break...

Meanwhile, we have fresh cukes, eggplant, yellow squash, acorn squash, green pepper, okra and even cantaloupe...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 08:52 PM

Okay... are they cooked at that point or are ready to cook?

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 08:56 PM

Squash.... mmmmmmmmm!

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 09:53 PM

Even Cantaloupe? i don't get it. Don't they grow with no problem where you are/
I just harvest my cant... and the were great.
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Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Janie
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 10:11 PM

Got to admit wild strawberries beat home grown tomatoes. Only here on the Piedmont of North Carolina there is no overlap of seasons, so really no reason to compare.

Lived on a neglected cattle farm for several years where one ungrazed pasture was thick with wild strawberries for 2-3 weeks every spring. Even growing thick it took a lot of picking to get a good mess of them. I'd go out and pick a few to toss on top of our shredded wheat every morning, but the main delight was to go plant myself in the pasture with a coffee tin and gather enough a couple of times a week during their short season to make small batches of wild strawberry freezer ice cream. We used a Euell Gibbon's recipe, sweetened with honey. Much about life at that time was challenging, but I never would have known the pleasure and joy of such delights otherwise.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Janie
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 10:16 PM

Well, bobert, we be eatin' vine ripe tomatoes here for a good bit longer than they be eatin' vine ripe tomatoes in more northern climes. And they prob'ly don't have a long enough season to do succession crops of tomatoes.

Although even here, I opine that tomatoes ripe after mid July taste better and sweeter than the first harvested, even from the same vine.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: gnu
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 10:41 PM

Janie.... yer wild strawberries story is wild! AND "vivid" for anyone with a bad back!

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Janie
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 10:50 PM

Interestingly enough, Beer, it can be, in some ways, harder to grow long season crops such as melons in the south than in the north. The combination of high heat, high humidity and drought has fostered wide spread fungal diseases that kill vines or greatly reduce productivity of vines, especially for organic gardeners.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 10:58 PM

I didn't know that janie. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Janie
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 11:18 PM

Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end....

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 11:26 PM

It has been one of the summers when I've been too busy in the garden to write about the garden. The tomatoes finished the spring crop, but we should get more in the fall. Eggplant is busy now, as is okra.

I love wild strawberries, and we used to find them up in the Cascades every so often. When I worked for the Forest Service it was understood - if you were walking in the woods and found some, you stopped to eat them because they wouldn't be there when you came back by later in the day and the vine wouldn't be there if you tried returning another year.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Janie
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 11:29 PM

My last post was for gnu. I hear you, bro'.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Better Than a Fresh Tomato
From: Beer
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 07:32 AM

Dad use to take me picking wild Strawberries and all of a sudden he would lift his head and gentle take a few deep breaths through his hooked nose and point. "Can you smell them!. There over there on the side of the hill". You know you could if the summer breeze was just right.
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