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[serene]

One of the neighbor women just came to our door with a huge bowl full of tomatoes from their garden. She says she has too many tomatoes. I don't see how that's possible. And I have New York Times bread almost ready to go into the oven, so suddenly, I've lost interest in my planned dinner. Fresh bread, olive oil, tomatoes, salt. That about does it, huh?

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[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

For me, that would have to be a vast quantity of tomatoes, indeed. We are almost through with the ten or twelve we were given about five hours ago. Three I ate like apples.

[inflectionpoint.livejournal.com]

Yes!

I do not understand too many tomatoes. I could eat my entire dinner of tomatoes. And more for breakfast. And be Very Happy.

Yay for hippy cute people giving you tomatoes. That is awesome.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

We have eight quite productive cherry tomato plants. We're having tomatoes in some form at practically every meal, there are still quite a few in the refrigerator, and there are lots more on the vines, which I've been too lazy to harvest (I'd better get on with it before they all go overripe). I predict that we'll be tired of tomatoes in another week or so.

I guess, since we actually put the plants in ourselves, I can't really complain.

[inflectionpoint.livejournal.com]

homemade sauce!

easy if you do canning, also do able if you just freeze it up.

a bit hard to want to do canning when it's hot, but high acid foods are easy to can, and don't need Pressure, but just a big old Boiling Water Bath. I love tomato sauce for later, and it's so much better in quality than what I can buy at the store unless I want to spend insane amounts of money.

I'm italian, and tomato sauce has tomatoes and olive oil in it, and then other things. Most store sauces are soybean oil, canola oil, or heaven knows what. And the ones that do use proper olive oil are awful pricey. They make it out like it's a big special deal or something, when for me it's kind of the minimum acceptable standard.

I'm fussy about some things, and if I had that many tomatoes, I might be able to attend to one of my Sources Of Fuss, and that would be a treat.

If I were eating them three times a day every day, yeah - after about three weeks of it, I'd prolly get a bit bored. YMMV.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Just as a tip to those who aren't experienced canners, tomato sauce isn't automatically a high-acid food, if there's anything but tomatoes in it. Best to use a tested recipe if you're going to use boiling water to can sauce -- otherwise, pressure-can for safety.