I have once again given tomatoes to my neighbors
Shout out to @omg-physics and @modern-solarpunk for giving things to their neighbors and reminding me that I also have things I could give to my neighbors (read: the aforementioned tomatoes)
The tomatoes weren’t as big as they were last time, I don’t think, but people still liked them!
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After
One of the tomatoes was rotting a little and I didn’t realize until the very end when someone pointed it out so OOF but!!!! It was fun
Highlights:
- People recognized me from last time, I think I’m becoming Tomato Girl
- Some people who didn’t get tomatoes last time got tomatoes this time! One family wasn’t home last time, one family wasn’t home and had actually just moved in a few months ago, so I was actually the first neighbor they’ve talked to!
- Third family I didn’t ring their doorbell last time because they had a ‘baby sleeping don’t knock or ring doorbell’ sign on their door. But they saw me on their Ring camera and hurried out to catch me before I got to the next house!! The ‘Baby’ is now 5 years old, they just keep the note on the door because it deters solicitors. But I, as a Neighbor and The Tomato Girl, am allowed to ring the doorbell whenever! They were sad they missed me and my dad last time lol
It was hot outside and I was sweating like crazy, but seeing how excited everyone got about the tomatoes made it sooo worth it!!
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today’s harvest with the first appearance of Roma’s along with the cherry tomatoes
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all the jars I've made this year so far! -5~ I've eaten
I'll probly get about another 12-20lbs of tomatoes from the garden yet but I'm super happy with the results of my first year! 🍅
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32.5 pounds of Roma tomatoes
8/25/22
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4/25/24 ~ transplanted 6 peps & maters today. Doing little by little every day 🥲
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Forgot to post this in the morning but I got my first Roma today. Had it with breakfast.
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Going nowhere with the North star;
Night time star stare down,
caresses me gently tonight,
and guide my map right.
-prettydeadprophet 01/08/22
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Mushroom, Tomato and Olive Rice Salad (Vegan)
The temperature has reached double digits at midday for the past couple of days, and I seem to have swapped my steaming bowl of soup for hearty salads at lunch-time. On today’s menu, this simple yet tasty Mushroom, Tomato and Olive Rice Salad, with herbs from the garden! Happy Wednesday!
Ingredients (serves 2):
3 large button mushrooms
a pinch of salt and freshly cracked black pepper
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
2 ripe Roma tomatoes
a dozen black olives
a small bunch Garden Chives
2 sprigs Garden Chervil
2 cups cold, leftover rice
Dust mushrooms and cut them into thick enough slices. Add mushroom slices to a salad bowl. Season, to taste with salt and black pepper. Drizzle generously with olive oil and red wine vinegar, and toss gently to coat in dressing.
Dice Roma tomatoes, and add to the salad bowl, along with black olives. Toss, once more.
Finely chop Chives and Chervil, and stir into the tomatoes and mushrooms, to combine.
Finally, stir in cold rice, tossing well once again, to mix.
Serve Mushroom, Tomato and Olive Rice Salad immediately, or chill in the refrigerator until serving time.
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"Holy Shit, did Ani just do a Praxis?"
Kinda I guess!
So if you know me, you know that I really like gardening. I also may have mentioned in the past that one of my dreams is to grow so much food that I can just give it away to neighbors. And. Well. Sure did manage it today!
So between last week's tomato and pepper harvest...
...and TODAY's tomato and pepper harvest (which, holy shit)
We have now reached the point that my dad is running out of recipes he can use to cook and eat all these tomatoes. And while he's determined to learn more, for now, we gotta do something with them, right?
So we washed everything down and put them in some of the biggest bowls we've got so we could tour the cul-de-sac and offer them to our neighbors! All of them! Including ones we've never talked to before!
We've got 15 houses total on our street (not including ours), but one of them is unoccupied (they moved out and no one has moved in yet). We stopped at every single one. Five of them weren't home, one family didn't want any. Everyone else took at least four or more tomatoes and/or peppers.
This is what we had left when we got back home.
So I'd say it was a success! I'd also say that we're probably gonna have to do this again.
This is wild to me. In all our previous years of growing tomatoes, we've never gotten this many at once. I think we've never even gotten this many before in a season. And I hope we get to do this a lot more!
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harvested two kinds of tasty tomatoes today
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Make Italian nachos with homemade chips, creamy Alfredo sauce, all of your favorite Italian-inspired toppings, and plenty of shredded cheese. In order to continue the fusion-food theme, the chips are made with egg roll wrappers.
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