My wife thought these tomatoes coming out of a pot of steaming water were so lovely she inspired me to take a photo.
I am peeling the tomatoes for a Senagalese black-eyed pea salad destined for tomorrow night’s parents night dinner at the elementary school where I teach my food appreciation classes. Normally I would not [...]
Entries Tagged as 'tomatoes'
Small Pleasures Of The Kitchen
December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · kids
Sweet Pickled Green Tomatoes
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Recipes, garden
So our 12 tomato plants came down this week to make room for cabbage and fall greens, leaving me with about 20 pounds of perfectly usable green tomatoes. What to do?
In fact, there are any number of things you can do with green tomatoes, probably more than you think. Everyone’s heard of fried green tomatoes by now. [...]
Tags: canning·green tomatoes·pickles·tomatoes
Grilled Lamb And Pomegranate Swiss Chard
September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Recipes, dinner, garden
Forgive me garden mother for I have neglected my Swiss chard.
We consider chard one of our most reliable vegetables. It marches through almost any kind of weather and doesn’t seem to mind how many times you harvest: It just grows back. We usually plant the ruby variety of chard but this year planted some green [...]
The Last Fish: Black Cod With Fresh Tomato-Green Chili Pepper Relish
August 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Recipes, Sustainability, garden
What’s the difference between a salsa and a relish?
I’m not sure there is any other than the name. The occasion for for this one arose when our friend Ben returned from a trip to New Mexico with an armful of green chilies. I don’t know the variety. He’d just seen them in an open market [...]
Breakfast
August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · breakfast
Fried egg with “pork pudding” and tomato slices from the garden.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Shopping: none
Pork “pudding” is made from the odd bits of the pig and contains no grain products, which differentiates it from the more commonly known “scapple.” The ingredients in this pudding from our local dairy, South Mountain Creamery, are listed as “unskinned [...]
Home Again
August 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · garden
I miss my morning walks in Maine.
Two miles each way along back roads out of South Freeport. The roadsides were thick with wild flowers: Queen Anne’s lace, goldenrod, purple loosestrife, buttercups, black-eyed Susan’s. Gold finches flitted in the dense branches of an apple tree. Amidst the low din of bird sounds, the mechanical trill of [...]
Canning, Interrupted
July 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Recipes, garden
Do you set aside a day to can tomatoes?
I know I don’t. If I spent a day canning tomatoes, we’d have enough canned tomatoes to feed an army. We’ve found that just two healthy Roma tomato plants provide enough tomatoes to last us the entire year. In fact, we just used the last pint of [...]
Tomato In A Crack
July 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments · garden
Having trouble growing tomatoes? Here’s proof that tomatoes will grow anywhere, under almost any conditions. This one has taken root in a crack in our front stoop.
Yes, a dirty little secret of food gardening is that tomatoes aren’t at all hard to grow. You just need to pick ones that thrive in your local conditions. [...]
Tags: tomatoes
Tomatoes!
July 18th, 2009 · 10 Comments · garden
Were you one of those kids who used to sit in the garden on a hot summer day with a salt shaker, gorging on ripe tomatoes? I was. So I guess I am just rediscovering my youth, growing 12 tomato plants in our front-yard kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile [...]
Our Favorite Beet Salad
July 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Recipes, garden
Our chiogga beets are ready for harvest in the garden and we know of no better way of serving them than this simple salad. Cook the beets your favorite way–boiled, roasted–then peel and cut into wedges. Mix with tomatoe and red onion, then toss with olive oil and red wine vinegar. Finish the salad with [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, one mile from the White House.
