For most of my life, I have not liked tomatoes. I have liked tomato flavored things like ketchup or tomato sauce for spaghetti, but never actual tomatoes. I never liked the texture. It seemed weird.
I have gotten better with age. I discovered I liked them on my pizza. Someone told me to eat them with fresh mozzarella and balsamic vinegar. I learned to like BLT's.Over the weekend I was having dinner at my parents house and my mom put out a plate of tomato slices and I decided I was going to have one. And I liked it. I thought it was very tasty.
So tasty that I actually bought some tomatoes and have been slicing them up and having them with my dinner.
I still don't really like them in salads or sandwiches, and I don't really like them cut into wedges, but I feel like a whole new person here. First it was mushrooms, then onions, now tomatoes. I wonder what other vegetables I should try?
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asparagus. eggplant. rhubarb. YAY for tomatoes
I love asparagus and eggplant (I have a delicious recipe using both eggplant AND tomatoes). I have only had rhubarb in pie. But I liked it. Is there another way to prepare it?
rhubarb soup? I dunno.
Norwegian cold rhubarb soup with mint
Ingredients:
4 sticks of rhubarb
1/2 a stick of vanilla
1 pt of water
6oz sugar
5 sprigs of mint
1 lemonProcedure:
Take the leaves of the mint sprigs. Peel the rhubarb and cut it into thin slices. Put the rhubarb peel in a saucepan with the water, sugar stick of vanilla, the juice of the lemon and the by now leafless mint sprigs, let it simmer for 10minutes. Sieve the liquid and add the rhubarb slices. Bring it to the boil, take off the heat and leave to cool. Cut the mint leaves into thin strips. Serve the soup ice cold with the chopped mint leaves on top.
Serves 8 people
Wow, this very exciting. Yeah for veggies! I had asparagus AND tomatoes AND mushrooms last night. Summer is a good time for veggies.
Did you put a dash of salt on the tomato slice your mom laid out? That's what we do and it is DELICIOUS. Oh my god. My mouth is watering...hahaha.
I have been really into peaches lately -- fresh ones, not canned. Mmmmmm...
Well it's good to know that rhubarb isn't always living in the shadow of strawberries.
And I do put salt on my tomatoes, with a little splash of balsamic vinegar. Delicious.
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