Comments on: A picture of tomatoes http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/08/09/a-picture-of-tomatoes/ Very helpful! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:39:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Colin http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/08/09/a-picture-of-tomatoes/#comment-9706 Colin Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:24:49 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/08/09/a-picture-of-tomatoes/#comment-9706 <p>That green one tastes just like a regular tomato. You can tell it's ripe because it has some contrast between its yellow stripes on top and the green body. It's just fine for eating raw, although probably the least tasty of the varieties we're growing. Its chief virtue is that it looks great on top of a salad.</p> <p>It took me about twenty years to find out that what I detested all along are watery, insipid, force-ripened grocery store tomatoes. Garden-fresh ones are great. And last year, I was introduced to dry-cultured tomatoes, which are so much more flavorful than conventional ones that comparison isn't (chortle chortle) fruitful. Hopefully, we'll still have plenty of them when you get into town. Last year, which did have an unusually long wet season, I was still occasionally harvesting tomatoes until about November, so you have to like your odds.</p> <p>Incidentally, when I got to California, I discovered that my favorite sandwich had changed (from corned beef special to ABLT), which got me eating even said watery insipid etc. from time to time. So in some sense, bacon was the gateway drug to tomatoes for me.</p> That green one tastes just like a regular tomato. You can tell it’s ripe because it has some contrast between its yellow stripes on top and the green body. It’s just fine for eating raw, although probably the least tasty of the varieties we’re growing. Its chief virtue is that it looks great on top of a salad.

It took me about twenty years to find out that what I detested all along are watery, insipid, force-ripened grocery store tomatoes. Garden-fresh ones are great. And last year, I was introduced to dry-cultured tomatoes, which are so much more flavorful than conventional ones that comparison isn’t (chortle chortle) fruitful. Hopefully, we’ll still have plenty of them when you get into town. Last year, which did have an unusually long wet season, I was still occasionally harvesting tomatoes until about November, so you have to like your odds.

Incidentally, when I got to California, I discovered that my favorite sandwich had changed (from corned beef special to ABLT), which got me eating even said watery insipid etc. from time to time. So in some sense, bacon was the gateway drug to tomatoes for me.

]]> By: Abby http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/08/09/a-picture-of-tomatoes/#comment-9695 Abby Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:59:45 +0000 http://entirelysafeandfun.com/wp/2007/08/09/a-picture-of-tomatoes/#comment-9695 that's a lot of tomatoes for someone who used to detest things...what kind of flavor does the green one have? is it eaten raw or better cooked? that’s a lot of tomatoes for someone who used to detest things…what kind of flavor does the green one have? is it eaten raw or better cooked?

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