September 1, 2010 – 5:32 pm
It’s hard to explain why, a mere 48 hours before I’m due to leave on a long-weekend trip, I’d trip out into the fields at my CSA farm and haul out another twenty-five pound bag of plum tomatoes.
August 31, 2010 – 3:19 pm
It’s a little bit tomato-centric around here. Specifically, cherry-tomato-centric. I don’t know how it happened, but I returned home from the farm last week with what seemed like a truckload of sweet Sungold cherry tomatoes, and it was important that I figure out a way to get them preserved, stat. Because as much as I might want to, it just wouldn’t be a good idea for me to sit down and simply eat them all.
August 25, 2010 – 5:46 pm
These easy pickled tomatoes are my last plea to summer. This weekend’s weather will be warm, and I’ll sit in the yard and soak it up, martini glass in hand, pickled tomato infusing its dilly goodness into the drink. Care to join me?
August 17, 2010 – 3:42 pm
Last Friday, out in the field, I picked about twenty pounds of beautiful red plum tomatoes. My parents, who had come to visit and to spend an evening at Tanglewood, were put into service. We scrubbed the kitchen. We ran the quart jars through the diswasher. We boiled up water in the biggest pot we could find.
We finally canned tomatoes.
August 28, 2008 – 6:20 am
Our CSA is in the height of U-pick season: the time of year when the distribution area in the barn is eerily empty because everyone is out in the field, ankle-deep in dirt, harvesting pint after pint of raspberries, cherry tomatoes, tomatillos, husk cherries, and whatever else is boisterously bearing fruit. When we signed up [...]