The kids are particularly in love with it and keep coming back with huge saucepans of tomatoes and cucumbers.
I keep (mistakenly) thinking that we'll get to cook with them, but nope they'll eat one of these in a single sitting. The other day my wife had to talk the children out of eating tomatoes for breakfast! They have a habit of eating too much fruit and veg as it is, so to add it in for breakfast would be too much .
So what's your favourite thing for a summer glut of tomatoes? just to eat them like we do or do you take it to another level?
F has a dehydrator, cuts the small ones in half an dries them, bottles loads of the big ones so that she can use them as 'canned' tomatoes in the winter time, and makes tomato chutney or relish with the bits of ones that need to be dissected to remove the bird peckings etc.
ReplyDeleteSounds a good idea! I want to get some in the dehdrator this year, but keen to can them as well hopefully!
DeleteNothing beats a home grown cucumber. Your children are having the best childhood, they are very lucky to have you as their dad.
ReplyDeleteHaha, I doubt they'll see it like that. I imagine they're going to have plenty of stories of normal life that don't seem normal to many.
DeleteCanned tomatoes, we are nearly out of them.
ReplyDeleteTomatoes , peppers and courgette, with onion and garlic, baked and sprinkled with cheese sometimes.
Plum tomatoes are looking good.
Peppers have a good crop, due to pinching out the plants early.
Do you do yours raw pack? I've managed to do a few since writing this and now I think I might have to use one just to see what they're like!
DeleteSorry, can't help you there, Kev. I scramble some eggs for breakfast and serve with tomatoes & cucumbers. Yum. Lunch & supper too. LOL
ReplyDeleteYou're having eggs with it though - he would eat nothign but tomatoes if given the option!
Deleteoops...we've been eating them with omelets for breakfast! i made sauce yesterday too. right now it's all tomatoes, all the time!
ReplyDeleteI think that's fine if it's with something - he would eat them with nothign else! He eats too much fruit and veg as it is!
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