Posted on 08/01/2024 6:19:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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37 Fresh Tomato Recipes for Peak Tomato Season
https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/fresh-tomato-recipes/
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Cukes are all done, (and canned) now it's on to the tomatoes and peppers - Bells, hot Cherries and Jalepenos are all ripe for pickin'.
Tomatoes are Early Girls and an un-named heirloom type - ugly but delicious.
We made it to August! Yay! Little rain by me, but we are still way ahead on the water table, so no fear of my well going dry. They keep promising rain, and it keeps missing us. The crops are all looking outstanding this season; getting ready for the THIRD cutting of Alfalfa.
That said, I am finally getting tomatoes and Mom & I made the first batch of V-8 Juice, yesterday. She’s a good veggie chopper, LOL!
This is the recipe I started with, but I add additional horseradish (prepared). While this is geared for using an actual JUICER, I just cook all the ingredients together in my heavy pot, and when everything is soft, (30-40 minutes) put it through my Foley Food Mill. I have also found that if I spin the softened veggies in my food processor for a bit, it makes milling them easier and I get a lot more liquid out of the veggies. If you are using a blender to do this make SURE that the veggies have cooled or you’ll blow the top off your blender! Safety First!
This recipe is easily doubled, tripled, etc. My usual ‘batch’ makes about 6 quarts of juice at a time.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/235433/copycat-v8-juice/
cute tomatoes!!!
That’s one thing I have too much of. Just made another batch of Pico de gallo.
Does anyone have a suggestion for other uses for fresh tomatoes?
I already have a bunch of canned from last year. Plus I’m out of jars. LOL
August already - unbelievable. Thanks for the thread!
Suggestions needed: mama deer (accompanied by fawn) has eaten all the leaves off the rose bushes planted around the patio wall. The rose bushes are old & not that pretty, even when blooming. I would like to replace them with something else that would look decent at least 3 seasons of the year. Something that blooms would be nice, but not necessary.
The planting area is not full sun & in the afternoon, most is in a light shade. We had such good luck with the boxwoods I planted at the other house, I am tempted to plant them around the patio & for color, have very large pots on wheels that can be moved around. The pots can be planted with flowers that bloom in the spring & probably replanted with something that would bloom most of the summer & then again with fall flowers.
Any other ideas? Shrubs other than boxwoods that would stay green?
That looks so good!
That’s my favorite, authentic Italian pizza. VPN. And the place in Nashville I used to go to that served it has closed down :-(
We have researched how to make it, and I have all the ingredients but now I need to buy a wood burning pizza oven. I had one from Forno Bravo but it got broken during the move. This time I want one that can be dual fuel, for the days when I don’t have 6 to 8 hours to heat it up LOL
I got all my garlic and most of my onions harvested and drying.
Hard to believe summer is racing by like it is.
We need to start working on splitting and stacking wood, but it’s been so stinking HOT!
We still desperately need rain. Local ponds are down a good foot. Not good for the critters who live in them.
Oh, I also canned my first batch of tomatoes.
It was stewed tomatoes, not sauce until more come in.
lol, cute!!!!
LOL! 100% certain that’s what my Eva does every evening when she’s out roaming around. I have YET to see any Fairies, but she seems to leave the Fireflies alone. I wish she ate Japanese Beetles!
Recipe link for tomatoes at Post #3. :)
Feral chickens love mangos... Eat them clean to the pit...
Just came up picked more than a dozen. Cukes are slow this year which makes me happy. Headed out for coffee beans for hubby.
Fresh picked tomatoes, sliced gently cook in best olive oil w/
lots of fresh garlic, chili pepper bits, and a sprinkle of fresh mint.
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