Subj : Tomatoes was: Storm was:
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Tue Oct 04 2022 14:40:12

Hi Dave,

 DD> My next-door brought us over a half dozen nice sized tomatoes
 DD> yesterday, last of the season as she is composting the vines and

 RH> Nice to have them so late in the season. The first year we were in AZ,
 RH> we had tomatoes into November. I picked the last of them before the
 RH> first frost, turned them into green tomato relish.

 DD> Key to that is starting your own seeds and staggered planting.  Bv)=

If I recall rightly, we bought starter plants in late May and put them
in. Very late planting for AZ (got the house in mid April) but they did
well. Younger daughter planted a seed from a 4th of July watermelon and
harvested a melon in early November.

 DD> I've put a nice recipe at the bottom for pickled green tomatoes by the
 DD> Illinois Times food columnist, Pete Glatz.

 DD> After the passing of his wife, Julianne (former Illinois Times food
 DD> columnist), Peter Glatz decided to retire from a 40-year career as a
 DD> dentist to reinvent himself as a chef at the age of 66. In his short
 DD> culinary career, he has worked at Chicago's Michelin-starred Elizabeth
 DD> Restaurant, Oklahoma City’s Nonesuch (Bon Appetit's "America's Best
 DD> New Restaurant" - 2018), Savannah's The Grey, and Spoon and Stable in
 DD> Minneapolis. - From the blurb on his column's page.

Good for him! Quite a career change but it sounds like he did very well
for himself.

 DD> This was last night's supper ... a riff on my stuffed pepper recipe.

 DD>       Title: Rice & Beef Stuffed Tomatoes
 DD>  Categories: Beef, Vegetables, Rice
 DD>       Yield: 2 servings

 RH> Looks good. Steve isn't much of a tomato eater other than in sauce and
 RH> suchlike but I might make this up & freeze the extra one, enjoy them
 RH> when he's out for supper.

 DD> I really like tomatoes. My preferred burget toppings are tomato,
 DD> oinion and mayonnaise. And tomato juice is my go-to breakfast juice

I go for a slice of tomato, same of onion, a couple of pickles (bread &
butter type) and some leaf lettuce, if available. If not, then I'll
settle for ketchup and pickle relish. Breakfast drinks used to include a
big glass of orange juice and mug of tea, past ten years it's been just
tea. Tried a vegetable juice blend for a while but it just wasn't as
good as oj had been so decided to stay with just tea.

 DD> (as well
 DD> as throughout the day in place of a can of soda).

I'll usually go for just plain water if I have a drink thruout the day.


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