Top Forty Tomatoes
We had to weigh our tomatoes to gauge the proportions in the sauce recipe we follow. Twenty one pounds of tomatoes had us multiplying each of the other ingredients by seven. It took us us two hours to chop the basil, onions, peppers, carrots, oregano and parsley and another hour to clean up. We had to borrow Rick and Monica’s restaurant style sauce pan (more like a bucket). It simmered all day and we froze about twelve big containers of sauce.
We had the blight in one of gardens but the other has gone to town. Six plants have produced over a hundred tomatoes. We have very few sunny spots on our property so we have set up shop in our neighbors back yards. They genuinely enjoy the company so it’s a fair shake.
Kevin Patrick stopped by last night with with a dj from a local station called “The Zone”. Can’t say that I have ever heard the station. I can only imagine what kind of stuff they program. We sat around the table drinking Guinness and talking about music. I was remembering flipping from WBBF to WSAY to WKBW (from Buffalo) in the mid sixties. The radio was some sort of lifeline back then. Now, I mostly listen to PBS which coincidentally happens to be at 1370 AM, the former home of WSAY. Kevin said his most recent post was for us because we liked “jazz”.
I’m totally sold on the idea of jazz forty-fives but I didn’t have the heart to tell him I can’t stand jazz guitar. Guitar should stay out of the way of jazz and I could almost say rock would be better off without it. I love rhythm guitar but piano and the organ covered that ground pretty well. Sax is a much better instrument for solos.
August 29th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
me too with the jazz gtr. but rock and roll? no way, booie!
August 30th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Boo and I bought 30 pounds of plum tomatoes at the market last week for $12. Cut in half and put in roasting pans with chopped onion, garlic, some with red peppers and olive oil, baked for 3 hours, pull the skins off and blend. We have freezers full too.
Summer, sigh.
September 2nd, 2010 at 9:52 am
No Jazz guitar? poor Bob……..:)
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Yes, Jon, “poor Bob…….”. Surely that wasn’t all for nothing.
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Wait a minute. I wasn’t talking about Margaret Explosion.
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Actually, I was talking about Bob Dylan at that famous folk festival when he played and electric guitar and was booood.