Served tonight with Indiana Kitchen bacon.
Freaking wow.
Served tonight with Indiana Kitchen bacon.
Freaking wow.
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Indiana Kitchen bacon. Brand name or was it still oinking when it hit the pan?
I have lived all over these United States and never...NEVER tasted a tomato as good as the ones I grew up eating. Honestly...you try and tell people about it and they just don't understand.
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Drool....
We're about to be bombarded with a ton of tomatoes and I have no idea what I'm going to do with them all. Thanks to Google I found this website which has several tomato recipes. Thought I'd share.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/TomatoRecipes.htm
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Thanks Snow, we are already getting bombarded by the cherry tomatoes and have the big ones coming on very soon as well.
Due to the weather my tomatoes sucked! Have a few golfball sized. But other then that nothing.
We didn't have a watering ban.I've got amazing peppers as well, after hardly any last year plus all my herbs are HUGE!!
It is still OK to water our gardens since those are food. We are starting to give tomatoes away.
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I zeroed in on the "Roasted Garlic & Goat Cheese Tomato Tart" recipes. YUM! Right now we have 1 grape tomato, 1 chocolate grape tomato and one cherry tomato plant that we're picking from every couple of days. Romas are coming in strong too. I need to make some tomato sauce.Originally Posted by badart
That does suck. Have you been watering? It's okay to water your garden. We stopped watering the lawn weeks ago but I've been watering the herbs and garden every day.
Herbs are doing well, except the tarragon looks like it has suffered a bit with the heat.We didn't have a watering ban.
What kind of peppers? We have two red bell pepper plants and we finally have a couple that are starting to turn red. We've had to toss about 4 or 5 so far because they had big, brown, ugly spots on them.The tomatoes, cucumbers and green beans have done really well. Our zucchini has blossoms but we have yet to get an actual zucchini. Our neighbor's zucchini plant started producing weeks ago. He said he pollinated his plants with a Q-tip. We told him next year he needs to have sex with our plants too.
Last edited by Snow61; 08-07-2012 at 10:17 PM.
I understand the Indiana State Fair is going on right now... Anybody been to the produce building? I'm guessing it's not as impressive as normal.
BTW somebody spill a little Lemonade Shake-up on the ground for Old Man Frank who can't be there.
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Our office manager brought in a baggie full of cherry and sun sugar hybreds. Best tomatoes I've had in years. The sun sugar ones are just stupid sweet.
Ours are coming along but we planted way late this year. Might be the end of the month before we get anything out of the garden this year.
wow a rush of just great memories of home, thank you!! hoosier tomatoes are the best!
1 memory.. when i was living in roachdale in '85, i got a late start on my garden. by the time i went to the kmart in brownsburg, they were out of most everything. however they had several flats of tomato plants on sale for like $.50.. hmmm i thought i'll get me a couple.. up walks the store employee and says you can have them all for $1.00! couldn't pass up the offer n left with like 6-7 flats!! grew about 1/4 acre of all tomatoes!! they were great but way too many for my wife n i n 2 babies!!
so i would take 10-12 boxes everyday to my job in zionsville n leave them on the tailgate of my truck with a big "FREE" sign.. when i'd leave the would be gone.. then after a week a few would be there and in a few days none were going away!! i stopped n talked with a guy im the parking lot 1 day.. he basically said, oh they're great we just can't eat that many.
ended up having tomato fights with some buddies round halloween!! ewwww nasty!!
thx for da memories
Red, green and jalepeno's and all are doing well. Herbs are basil, rosemary, oregano and sage. We've had a lot of bees this year after a dearth the past few years. It might be that we planted some sunflowers this year, so maybe that has helped.Herbs are doing well, except the tarragon looks like it has suffered a bit with the heat.
What kind of peppers? We have two red bell pepper plants and we finally have a couple that are starting to turn red. We've had to toss about 4 or 5 so far because they had big, brown, ugly spots on them.
We've had a lot of bees this year, too...no sunflowers, though...
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Good to know, I know the bee numbers had been down a few years back. The sunflowers are great magnets for goldfinches!
Salad last night with home grown mixed lettuces, carrots and tomatoes.
I love the goldfinches. They're so darn cute. Last night we watched a Cardinal go after a praying mantis or katydid mid air. It was really cool.
Okay...back on topic.
Last edited by Snow61; 08-11-2012 at 05:16 PM.
This will help get us back on topic. Fresh from the backyard. Indiana grown tomatoes.
We made this for dinner tonight using 2 heirloom tomatoes from the garden and it was absolutely delicious. It's on a puff pastry crust.
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Did you grill it?We made this for dinner tonight using 2 heirloom tomatoes from the garden and it was absolutely delicious. It's on a puff pastry crust.
No, I'm not sure if that would have worked. Between the goat cheese spread and the tomatoes, I'm not sure the puff pastry crust could support the weight. We baked it on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
You should give this recipe a try. It really was incredible!! I made a couple of tweaks. First, I'm not a fan of olives so we left those off and then I watched Michael Symon make a tomato tart and he roasted his tomatoes first. He said he'll roast them overnight at 170 to remove some of the moisture and concentrate the flavors or you can just roast for 20 minutes at 375. The recipe said to lay them out on a paper towel lined baking sheet, add salt and place in the fridge for 2 to 3 hours to remove some of the moisture. I let them sit in the fridge for about 2 hours and then roasted them for 15 minutes. No soggy crust, it was nice and crisp on the bottom but the tomatoes were still moist. I also brushed the edge of the crust with an egg wash.
Last edited by Snow61; 08-22-2012 at 06:50 PM.
Ah, nice touch!
We rate the recipes we try on a 1-5 scale, with 5 being the best. Anything below a 3 never gets made again. Anywho, I wanted to give that one a 6 and said it may have been one of THE BEST dishes I have ever eaten. Yea, putting that dish above a slab of ribs, braised short ribs served with creamy parmesan polenta, and many seriously nice SF Bay area restaurants.
The goat cheese mixture was awesome. We scaled back from 1/2 cup to maybe 1/3 cup on the olive oil. It would be tasty on its own spread on some toasted sourdough rounds.
We both credit the heirloom tomatoes as a serious contributing factor, plus Snow's tweaking of the recipe really made the dish pop. Absolutely stunning flavor and it was simple to make.
If someone needs a recipe, Snow is your go to. She has a serious knack for finding some really great ones.I'm a very lucky man.
Experienced Fried Green Tomatoes for the first time tonight. YUM....now I understand.
We have about 15 lbs of heirloom tomatoes in a grocery sack hoping that they'll ripen soon. About the same amount in grape and cherry tomatoes.
I came on pretty strong at the end. Not great but ended up not a total loss. The late rains helped. Still have a few on the vine and the bit of cold weather has not killed them off.
The farmer up the road had what I would to consider to be Indiana grade tomatoes.
His sweet corn was crazy good so we gave his tomatoes a whirl and by far the best we have eaten in years.
It reminded me of leaning over the sink with my Mom and a tomatoe in one hand and salt shaker in the other (on the farm in Sulphur Springs, IN).
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