see that bowl of cherry tomatoes up there - that HUGE bowl of tomatoes? I picked those from our garden yesterday! I kid you not. And half an hour later I threw them all down the garbage disposal!!!
Let me explain why. . . . . first let me just say, I really need to take some outdoor pictures of our 'garden'. A few of you asked a while ago how things were going, and I just never seem to get around to telling you (or showing you) about it. After the success we had during the early summer with all the zucchini and watermelons and the pumpkins, well lets just say 'we' (cos I can't blame it all on my hubby, although I've always insisted I don't really like gardening) have let things go a little out there, and to say it's looking rather messy would be a slight understatement. Things (and by things I mean weeds and grass) are taking over the beds where the earlier veg have died off, and we just never seem to get out there to take care of it. If I'm honest this is what annoys me about gardening. I'd prefer to do things on a smaller scale, but hubby 'went big' again this year and has done the same thing he did last year.... just let everything get too messy and now he doesn't want to deal with it.
All that said, the tiny tomato plants I planted from seed that never seemed to be doing well during the heat of the summer finally started going wild a few weeks ago when the weather turned cooler and we started getting rain. And that's where all these tomatoes came from... there's still a ton of green ones on there that I'm hoping will ripen over the next few days, although I'm not sure if they will now as we had a little bit of frost early this morning.
Anyway, I thought because I had so many tomatoes I would try and make some salsa with a packet of stuff I got a few months ago for this very reason. Long story short, I had to 'scald' the tomatoes in hot water to peel them and then de-seed them, but by the time I took the peel off and tried to squeeze out the seeds, there was very little flesh left. It was so messy and difficult to seperate them I thought I would just peel them and through the whole tomato in the bowl, seeds and all. After I'd done this with half the batch I came to the realization that most of what was in the bowl was slimey seeds and that wouldn't make good salsa at all. The other half were still in hot water so the whole batch went down the sink :-(
Tomorrow I will try to take pictures out there and share them with you. Today I started on my Christmas decorating. I will share pics of all that as and when I get things done. Although I am realizing that I don't really have that much stuff so a trip to Hobby Lobby or Michael's may be in order once I get everything unpacked ;-)
Can you believe it's Thanksgiving next week? What are your plans? Who's cookin the turkey? We will be having dinner at our neighbors house like we did last year because my inlaws are not here. So no turkey cookin' for me, but I will make my yummy 'make-ahead mashed potatoes' a recipe I love from my friend Heather, and I also might try and make the pumpkin cake on the front cover of Paula Deen's magazine!
OK, I've waffled on a lot today (or I should say tonight, as it's 7.37pm as I type this). I think it's about time I went and put my feet up with a glass of wine - care to join me?
Let me explain why. . . . . first let me just say, I really need to take some outdoor pictures of our 'garden'. A few of you asked a while ago how things were going, and I just never seem to get around to telling you (or showing you) about it. After the success we had during the early summer with all the zucchini and watermelons and the pumpkins, well lets just say 'we' (cos I can't blame it all on my hubby, although I've always insisted I don't really like gardening) have let things go a little out there, and to say it's looking rather messy would be a slight understatement. Things (and by things I mean weeds and grass) are taking over the beds where the earlier veg have died off, and we just never seem to get out there to take care of it. If I'm honest this is what annoys me about gardening. I'd prefer to do things on a smaller scale, but hubby 'went big' again this year and has done the same thing he did last year.... just let everything get too messy and now he doesn't want to deal with it.
All that said, the tiny tomato plants I planted from seed that never seemed to be doing well during the heat of the summer finally started going wild a few weeks ago when the weather turned cooler and we started getting rain. And that's where all these tomatoes came from... there's still a ton of green ones on there that I'm hoping will ripen over the next few days, although I'm not sure if they will now as we had a little bit of frost early this morning.
Anyway, I thought because I had so many tomatoes I would try and make some salsa with a packet of stuff I got a few months ago for this very reason. Long story short, I had to 'scald' the tomatoes in hot water to peel them and then de-seed them, but by the time I took the peel off and tried to squeeze out the seeds, there was very little flesh left. It was so messy and difficult to seperate them I thought I would just peel them and through the whole tomato in the bowl, seeds and all. After I'd done this with half the batch I came to the realization that most of what was in the bowl was slimey seeds and that wouldn't make good salsa at all. The other half were still in hot water so the whole batch went down the sink :-(
Tomorrow I will try to take pictures out there and share them with you. Today I started on my Christmas decorating. I will share pics of all that as and when I get things done. Although I am realizing that I don't really have that much stuff so a trip to Hobby Lobby or Michael's may be in order once I get everything unpacked ;-)
Can you believe it's Thanksgiving next week? What are your plans? Who's cookin the turkey? We will be having dinner at our neighbors house like we did last year because my inlaws are not here. So no turkey cookin' for me, but I will make my yummy 'make-ahead mashed potatoes' a recipe I love from my friend Heather, and I also might try and make the pumpkin cake on the front cover of Paula Deen's magazine!
OK, I've waffled on a lot today (or I should say tonight, as it's 7.37pm as I type this). I think it's about time I went and put my feet up with a glass of wine - care to join me?
4 comments:
~Ah. I'm sorry they didn't work for you Denise. I would like to see your garden. :)
I'll be back soon Denise!
I can't believe you still had tomatoes. My garden died a long time ago. Sorry you had to throw them all away. I would love the make ahead mashed recipe.
well, I can believe you still had toms. If I get them as late as September (Oct, if I leave them for a long time), then I can see why you would still have them in your warm climate. Shame you had to chuck them though. I agree, it's fiddly to skin and seed them.
Have a lovely Thursday :O) x
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