While this is not normally any sort of political forum, even the world of vegetable gardening is not immune to politics. Today, First Lady Michelle Obama will break ground on the first vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden. But as this blueprint indicates, there will be no tomatoes. The First Lady says “A real delicious heirloom tomato is one of the sweetest things that you’ll ever eat… and my children know the difference” So why not grow some, eh?
So much for re-election. Forget the AIG mis-calculation, Jerzeetomato.com will not be endorsing the 2012 Obama ticket until this wrong is righted. If then.
And there’s too much lettuce in the plan, too.
Seriously, though, we admire the commitment to local produce and healthier eating. We just feel that commitment should include tomatoes.
Filed under: Garden
We ignored Shakespeare’s warning and planted the first seeds of the season on Sunday. Beets, of course. And some lettuce. Crossing our fingers for the lettuce, but, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Filed under: Garden, Kitchen, Tomatoes | Tags: cooking, lamb, recipes, Tomatoes
It’s cold out there! But we warmed up with a winter feast made from the best stuff we had stashed away in the basement with two meals featuring entrees made from out stash of Awesome Farm products. First, Lisa made gnocchi which we had with a lamb ragu (which also featured a couple of jars of our own tomatoes). It went down quite well with a capital Barolo. For dessert, I made my (sorta) famous Chocolate Malted Creme Brulee. Famous, ‘cuz it was in Mom’s cookbook The Splendid Spoonful.
On Sunday we had had Hainanese chicken with our Awesome Farm chicken. This dish has been in heavy rotation for us every since Bittman wrote about it last summer. Although we like the more traditional version with a zippy lime-chili sauce.
Not much going on here but I did want to share a killer recipe. We went to NH for Christmas to Mom’s for Ye Olde Fashioned New England Christmas. And for x-mas dinner, to go along with the roast beast, Mom made this killer recipe for Yorkshire Pud’.
All done. Yesterday I harvested the fall crop of beets….not very large ones. I tried to pull a couple last weekend but they were frozen solid in the ground. I think next year I need to start them earlier than late August. I think a little bit of the parsley may have made it through last week’s cold snap. So, hopefully there’ll be two things on the Thanksgiving table from the garden. We’ll see.
I’m very excited about a call I got yesterday. The good folks from Awesome Farm called to say our lamb was ready to head to the butcher. And they’d like to know how we’d like it butchered….legs: half or whole, rack: chops or whole, sholder: roast or stew, etc. etc. Ahhh, the possiblities. We ordered this lamb last spring and I’d almost forgotten about it. Now my only regret is that we only ordered half a lamb and not a whole. I’ll post back after we pick it up and let you know how it tastes.
Wow, I haven’t posted almost the entire peak season…but here’s what’s been keeping me away:
Clockwise, from upper left: Costoluto Genovese, Sriped German, Rutgers, Cherokee Purple, Striped German.
I’ve made this dessert three times in three weeks, I love it so much. This time we added raspberries! Bittman rules!
You’d think that with a title like Jerzeetomato, we’d be posting constantly as the crop started to come in. In fact we’ve been slacking off and enjoying our tomatoes. And we haven’t even gotten to The Inundation yet. But, no. We’re slackers. Here are some photos of the early crop.
Assorted Cherries, (Sungold, Chocolate Cherry and Little Red)
Big Beef and Cherokee Purple:
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