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They can be mashed into a pasta sauce.. Sliced and topped with mozzarella and a drizzle of olive oil... A fresh one from the garden can be eaten like an apple... They make oh so many sandwiches oh so much tastier... The list goes on and on...
Oh... And they strike fear into the heart of TFG
All hail the mighty tomato
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Best_man23
(4,890 posts)Heirloom tomatoes are the best. I'll save the GMO grocery store toms for the retired Florida Man.
Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)I try to plant a couple every year.
Goonch
(3,551 posts)Diamond_Dog
(31,661 posts)A garden-fresh beefsteak sliced up and tucked inside a BLT. Heaven.
Emile
(21,905 posts)I'll be planting a few inside a week.
I'm a little giddy just thinking about them.
electric_blue68
(14,610 posts)one day a neighbor dropped by with pretty much just picked cherry tomatoes.
Oh, my goodness! Wow...🥰
(and I've had the picked within several hours of heirloom cherry & other tomatoes from.our Greenmarket 👍💖 )
May you have a good crop!
I can wait, bc I want to enjoy May & June before mid+ July when they more or less start appearing.
Harker
(13,880 posts)I do love that resinous aroma.
Fla Dem
(23,351 posts)What are the benefits of eating raw tomatoes?
Tomatoes are loaded with a substance called lycopene. It gives them their bright red color and helps protect them from the ultraviolet rays of the sun. In much the same way, it can help protect your cells from damage. Tomatoes also have potassium, vitamins B and E, and other nutrients.
The Health Benefits of Tomatoes - WebMDhttps://www.webmd.com Food & Recipes
Loveem ❤🍅
sarge43
(28,939 posts)DUzzy
The mighty tomato, sweet peppers, onion, shrooms, stir fried on a bed of brown rice
Tomatoes: Proof that Mother Gaia loves us.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,231 posts)electric_blue68
(14,610 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)TFG is an idiot and these memes will be fun to use
Link to tweet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/trump-says-he-feared-being-pelted-with-very-dangerous-fruit-rallies/
Trumps comments about the potentially lethal effects of projectile produce were made public Tuesday with the release of excerpts of 4½ hours of videotaped testimony in a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who allege that Trumps security guards assaulted them in 2015.
I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit, Trump said in the October 2021 deposition, according to a transcript of the proceedings.
He added that tomatoes are bad and that some fruit is a lot worse.
But its very dangerous. I remember that specific event, because everybody was on alert. They were going to hit they were going to hit hard, he said.
electric_blue68
(14,610 posts)little peach fuzzy yellow ones, and Beefsteaks.
My mom used to talk about Beefsteaks, and she might have gotten them from her sister who lived in NJ not too from the NE corner.
For decades (visiting my aunt) when my dad could drive they'd stop at a farmstand just off the highway where nearby produce was brought.
Now I wasn't much of veggie (yes I know the tomato is a fruit) eater.
They'd be going ga-ga, and I'd be like.... meh. 😄
I changed later! 👍
It was still a bunch of years before Heirlooms were on my radar. They were beginning to become a thing in NYC, the NY Daily News had a whole big article on them. That's where I really found out.
That was at least ?35 years ago. Luckily our Green Markets had at least several farmers at the time they came into view amongst shoppers. 💖 🍅 💖
So probably finally again masked up on a sunny day I'll get to the biggest GM in Manhattan.
Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)(one of my favorite poems)
To a Sinister Potato
O vast earth-apple, waiting to be fried,
Of all life's starers the most many-eyed,
What furtive purpose hatched you long ago
In Indiana or in Idaho?
In Indiana and in Idaho
Snug underground, the great potatoes grow,
Puffed up with secret paranoias unguessed
By all the duped and starch-fed Middle West.
Like coiled-up springs or like a will-to-power,
The fat and earthy lurkers bide their hour,
The silent watchers of our raucous show
In Indiana or in Idaho.
"They think us dull, a food and not a flower.
Wait! We'll outshine all roses in our hour.
Not wholesomeness by mania swells us so
In Indiana and in Idaho.
"In each Kiwanis Club on every plate,
So bland and health exuding do we wait
That Indiana never, never knows
How much we envy stars and hate the rose."
Some doom will strike (as all potatoes know)
When-once too often mashed in Idaho-
From its cocoon the drabbest of earth's powers
Rises and is a star.
And shines.
And lours."
Peter Viereck