I'm one of those people who just doesn't love summer. Temperatures over 80F make me cranky. Over 90F just makes me mad. I left Sacramento after living there a mere 18 months, and have followed the magnetic draw of the north pole ever since, landing in the Pacific Northwest, with its lovely, reasonable summers.
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| Stupice tomatoes, from my own garden |
But I do love me some tomatoes, and tomatoes love summer. My own garden tomatoes are plugging along, and now that Seattle is in the middle of some really warm weather, I have high hopes for the large fruits that have been green for weeks and are now starting to blush. I will enjoy every bite of those, even if I do have to resort to the green tomato recipes, but in the meantime, I stopped at the
Yakima Fruit Stand in Bothell yesterday and bought many pounds of Washington grown Roma and beefsteak tomatoes, and today I got to work dehydrating and canning the lot of them, and even some of my own. I even ran out of jars, so I'll just have to make some tomato sauce and freeze it.
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cherry tomatoes ready for dehydrating.
the resulting dried tomatoes are like candy and get right in your mouth |
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canned washington grown tomatoes.
I look forward to opening these some dark winter evening. |
Good thing I love tomatoes, eh?
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