Tomatoes

Originally Posted by CoolCat

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Would you send me some Tomatoes to taste it!

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Somehow I don't think it would make it through customs!!! I would have them showing up at my door to arrest me for trying to get some rare insect into Mexico or somthing like that!

Thanks for the ideas everyone!

Originally Posted by GailC

But you can start a fall tradition. My SIL lets her "boys" (now 17, 22 and 28) have a rotten tomato fight in the fall-they wear icky clothes that she doesn't mind getting stained up plus they farm so they have lots of icky clothes!!

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I love it!!!!

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

Somehow I don't think it would make it through customs!!! I would have them showing up at my door to arrest me for trying to get some rare insect into Mexico or somthing like that!

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ABSOLUTELY RIGHT .... ......




............ ......Well you can prepar a Coktel of Shrimp with Ketchup of your Tomatoes and cheers for me!

Hm.. well my mom's boyfriend's parents have their own garden too.. and amongst other things they have tomatoes also. Woo tomato plants can be evil I know. You can get like 50 tomatoes off of one plant.. and they have about 20 plants or more!

HM.. well... what she did was stew some of them with peppers and onions and stuff and canned them. THey have like.. 50 jars of tomatoes! She sent home a five gallon bucket full for my mom and I... and we made about a gallon or two of salsa. She uses the canned tomatoes for spaghetti sauce and for Chili. My advice is to just keep canning! Its a long, tiring process but you'll be glad for it in the end. Heck. You can always tie bows around it and give one jar out to each of your family and friends and be like "ok thats your christmas present, now go away!"

This is a wonderful idea! You could make fresh salsa! I adore homemade fresh salsa! All you'd need is a good recipe, your tomatoes and juice, fresh onion and fresh garlic, sweet peppers, hot peppers, jalopenos to taste, and what really makes a salsa perfect is cilantro! Lots of cilantro.!

Originally Posted by dawnofsierra

This is a wonderful idea! You could make fresh salsa! I adore homemade fresh salsa! All you'd need is a good recipe, your tomatoes and juice, fresh onion and fresh garlic, sweet peppers, hot peppers, jalopenos to taste, and what really makes a salsa perfect is cillantro! Lots of cillantro.!

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I agree that you can never have enough cilantro! I have some of that in the garden too! I do have about 5 batches of salsa in the freezer.

Send them here! Send them here! I'll pay top notch for excellent home made salsa, especially from a friend who knows the fine requirements of cilantro!

Oh man...I could LIVE on tomatoes and tomato products. Send 'em my way!!

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

I agree that you can never have enough cilantro!

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Bleah !!!
We think cilantro tastes like soapy dishwater. The thing is, up until about 6-10 years ago, nothing had cilantro in it! Now you can't hardly find salsa that doesn't have it!

I plan to grow a tomato plant next year, but you are scaring me!

Originally Posted by fwan

I plan to grow a tomato plant next year, but you are scaring me!

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Don't worry, you will be fine! I have 24 plants in the garden! I WON'T be planting as many next year!

Originally Posted by RoseHawke

Bleah

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We think cilantro tastes like soapy dishwater. The thing is, up until about 6-10 years ago, nothing had cilantro in it! Now you can't hardly find salsa that doesn't have it!

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I use parsley instead. Its not so much the taste of cilantro I don't like. Its the smell. Here's the salsa recipe I use.

2 cloves garlic
1 small onion
1 large tomato
2 jalapenos
juice from 1/2 lime
large handful parsley (or cilantro)
pinch salt

Coarsley chop garlic and onion. Chop on low in food processor. Microwave for 1 minute. Cut tomatoes. jalapenos into small chunks. Discard jalapeno seeds if you don't want the salsa to be hot. Add jalapeno, tomato, and parsley cilantro to food processor. Chop on low. Combine with garlic and onion. Add salt and lime juice. Chill for 1 hour.