{"id":1067,"date":"2009-08-20T03:32:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T03:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2009-09-02T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:45:25","slug":"a-tomato-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"A Tomato Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The

The daily picking baskets<\/p><\/div>\n

I saw a reference to Summer Fest on A Way to Garden<\/a> and since this was the Tomato week for that celebration I thought it would be good to talk about the tomato harvest here.<\/p>\n

Last week we saw the movie Julie & Julia (Great flick!). \u00a0It certainly sets a high standard for appreciation of food and it’s preparation (though I probably saw more butter than I’ve eaten in my lifetime). \u00a0We have currently been relishing our own incoming produce and the many minor variations of cooking everything that’s being harvested. \u00a0It’s mostly tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, beans, onions, and eggplant. \u00a0The evening meal is some variation of tomatoes, peppers, squash, onions and eggplant stir fried together in olive oil and balsamic vinegar with garlic and herbs to taste (Beth uses fresh stuff from her herb garden and I tend to grab the dried products off the shelf). \u00a0For protein we throw in some tofu or chicken meatballs and a little mozzarella cheese. \u00a0If I’m the one doing the mixing some kind of nuts will be involved (pine nuts, hazelnuts, or walnuts). \u00a0Every night is slightly different but always delicious. \u00a0The ritual ends with us lifting the plate to our lips and draining the plate of the last of the luscious tomato-based sauce. \u00a0Altogether with cutting up this takes two people maybe 15 minutes to prepare and could not be much better.<\/p>\n

However, even with this kind of eating we’re not even close to using the produce. \u00a0Beth cooked up a couple of \u00a0batches of tomato sauce for the winter this week. \u00a0This gives her more opportunity to tap into her herb garden. \u00a0And we’ve been giving stuff away as well. \u00a0And yet, the refrigerator overfloweth. \u00a0I feel bad for the folks in the northeast who’ve been hit by blight. \u00a0We were fortunate that everything was grown from seed and we have had sort of a mixed bag of rainfall \u2014 good rain early on and a lot of dry sunny days in July\/August \u2014 which has had me doing hand watering but it’s been good for the tomatoes and peppers. \u00a0I don’t think we’ve ever had peppers this nice.<\/p>\n

\"Some

Some big blocky red peppers<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tomatoes

Tomatoes are slowing down but many still on the vines<\/p><\/div>\n

The hot weather has made it less desirable to work in the garden and it is starting to get away from me. \u00a0But I also know that we are going hiking in the west in a few days so that there is only so much I can do anyway.<\/p>\n

\"Garden

Garden is getting overgrown<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw a reference to Summer Fest on A Way to Garden and since this was the Tomato week for that celebration I thought it would be good to talk about the tomato harvest here. Last week we saw the movie Julie & Julia (Great flick!). \u00a0It certainly sets a high standard for appreciation of food and it’s preparation (though I probably saw more butter than I’ve eaten in my lifetime). \u00a0We have currently been relishing our own incoming produce and the many minor variations of cooking everything that’s being harvested. \u00a0It’s mostly tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, beans, onions, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1,5],"tags":[48,45],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","category-general","category-vegetables","tag-gardens","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/macgardens.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}