Tangled Branches: Satiated
riveting tales of how we sustain ourselves
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Serendipitous Reading: Tomatoes
Looking over the bookshelf this morning for fresh inspiration for cooking tomatoes, I picked up instead Cornbread Nation 1, where I opened (at random, I swear) to the piece titled "Summer Feeding Frenzy". This is excerpted out of order, but it sums up my feelings better:
There is an unwritten rule of summer: You cannot throw away fresh tomatoes - any fresh vegetable, really - nor can you allow them to go to waste.
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Tom invited my husband and me for dinner recently, warning that everything he served would have tomatoes in it because the tomato plants in his backyard were bursting. "I've had tomato sandwiches every day for lunch," he said gleefully. Red orbs perched on the windowsill and by the sink. A bowl of a dozen or so round things wrapped in newspaper sat nearby. "Storm knocked down the Celebrity," he said, referring to one of the varieties. "So I picked these up." He used some in a fried green tomato sandwich, which he described in lip-smacking detail.
That was written in the year 2000, but the author, Debbie Moose, is still writing about tomatoes.
For today's lunch, we're going to take a break from BLTs and have Potatoes and Onions with Tomatoes, more-or-less based on a recipe in Curried Favors by Maya Kaimal (page 8 in the pdf file of excerpts from the publisher). With leftover fish from last night's Fish Tacos.
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posted by Entangled at 8:36 AM
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