Of course, I don't want to waste these beauties that I've tended carefully all summer (I did have to water them once or twice). Here's what else I've been doing with them, instead of writing:
- making pseudo sun-dried tomatoes (in the oven)
- making tomato soup
- making tomato bread (in the breadmaker)
- taking the skins off, chopping them up and freezing them for future use
My kids were excited by the process of removing the skins, which involves boiling them for a couple of minutes
and then plunging them into ice water.
But what the kids really like to do is to pick the green tomatoes or collect rotten ones and squish them up for "potions class".
Interesting how adults and kids can have different perspectives on the same thing! Other things kids might do with a lot of tomatoes:
- make tomato mud pies
- feed pet crickets or ants
- make a target and let them rip
- have a tomato throwing contest
- cut them open to see what's inside
It's cool to take an ordinary object and think about the different perspectives people of different ages might have about it.
After all this thinking, I considered writing a quick story about a girl who has a big tomato problem. But first I have to go make some salsa.
Yum! I'd make some marinara sauce too. I really want a tomato garden...
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! Now I know what to do with the next batch.
DeleteYum! We don't have a tomato garden. Too difficult where I live.
ReplyDeleteThat's too bad, Stina. I think I've always had some kind of garden, except for when I was a grad student living in an apartment where pigeons had overtaken the balcony.
DeleteI love tomatoes and can take a certain amount of tomato pileup. Now zucchini is another story.
ReplyDeleteHa! We didn't even plant those because our garden is too small.
DeleteOoh! Fresh salsa.
ReplyDeleteI used to pick tomatoes from the garden, sprinkle salt on them, and eat them whole. Good memories!
Delicious! Isn't it great how foods can conjure up memories?
DeleteVery nice! When I was a kid, I walked to the neighbors (on the way to the library) and bought a tomato a nickel from their honor system farmstand. I ate them straight up! So good!
ReplyDeleteWhat a neat memory! Sounds like it could go in a novel.
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