Use #3,697 for homegrown tomatoes...

SALSA!

With homemade tortilla chips, means I've been snacking on homegrown goodness all day while feeding my Arrested Development obsession! With a bit of a break for wine on the delightful Emy's mirror balcony to my own, a good day overall! Now if I could just figure out how to get blogger to stop choosing fonts and text sizes at random...we'll be all set!


And OH MY GOD! Forget all the b.s going down on Wall Street! The real tragedy is happening right in Times Square. As of November, TRL will be no more?!?! How can they do this? Where oh where shall I go from here to learn the newest method for hootin' and hollerin' at young tarlets? I'm going to go weep now.

Matters of the Heart

Yes, ladies and gentlemen...that is THE tomato! The one that grew and grew and refused to turn from green. Well, it seemed overnight it went from hard and unripe to bright yellow and begging to be cooked up into something wonderful! (As one might notice, it is a bit over half the size of The Man's head!)
And so, we obliged. For the first time I scored and blanched and skinned and squeezed and pureed and simmered and created my very first pot of gen-u-ine sauce that started as a small seedling found at a farmer's market...to becoming one of the best pans of eggplant Parmesan this German gal's ever tasted! Not to mention the subsequent pizzas and pasta dishes that were to follow the next few days.
Oh yes, a girl could get used to this domestic sorta lifestyle...I think I'm gonna go make Banana bread! (disclaimer...no bananas we actually grown by aforementioned blogger)