[Mike Nolan]

We had deli meats and fresh tomatoes again tonight. That's kind of our go-to meal during the peak of tomato season.

[Mike Nolan]

On Saturday I made honey wheat bread.

[Mike Nolan]

We did stuff with deli meats again today.

[Mike Nolan]

Aside from flour and a few baking ingredients like diastatic malt powder, I haven't bought any King Arthur products for years. I look through their catalogs and it seems like it is mostly mixes that I would never use, rather than interesting baking stuff. I did buy the King Arthur pizza book and have baked several of the crust recipes from it already. I do not plan to make any of the sauce recipes, because they all contain garlic.

I do plan to try a pizza using the marinated tomatoes like we got at the Wolfgang Puck Kitchen in Grand Rapids.

I don't buy a lot from Bob's Red Mill these days, either. They've dropped most of the products I bought from them.

[Mike Nolan]

Tonight we had bread-less tuna melts, just a tomato slice, tuna salad and cheddar cheese. Low carb and very tasty. You need big tomatoes that you can get thick slices from.

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[Mike Nolan]

Wrong category, but that's OK, I may move it at some point.

The simple answer is that they are usually gerunds, verbs acting as a noun by adding 'ing'.

I like swimming.

Sometimes they're called the present participle or the gerund participle, depending upon the specific context.

The swimming dog was wet.
I was swimming.

[Mike Nolan]

We went out to dinner with friends on Friday, tonight we had tuna melts with tomatoes fresh from the garden.

[Mike Nolan]

I think I'm a week or two away from ones that are 8 ounces or heavier from the garden, the biggest of them aren't showing any signs of ripening yet.

I do expect to have some 4-6 ounce ones in the next few days, and that's big enough to do some interesting things with.

[Mike Nolan]

We're having corn, cantaloupe and cold cuts tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

Some of my other tomato plants are starting to have ripening fruit on them, so tomato season is about to get fully underway.

I also transplanted the seedlings into the hydroponic garden for the next cycle of it, I should start getting tomatoes from it in mid to late October.

Here's a photo, I'll post an update in a couple of weeks to show progress. (Sorry about the purple color, that's due to the lights I use.)

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We had sweet corn followed by a sandwich (for me) and cottage cheese and fruit (for Diane).

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I had a sandwich with a fresh tomato, Diane had tuna salad in a tomato.

[Mike Nolan]

I haven't done it yet this year but if I want pizza without heating up the kitchen, I do it on the outdoor gas grill, which can reach higher temperatures than a home oven can, up to about 800. The big challenge for that is getting the pizza off the peel onto the grill. I use parchment rounds to help with this indoors, but that might not work outdoors because they will burn if the grill is hot enough. The usual technique is to pull the parchment out after a minute or so, but that's a lot easier to say than it is to do--at least for me.

[Mike Nolan]

We had chicago dogs--sort of, they were out of the poppy seed buns so I sprinkled some poppy seeds on them at home.

[Mike Nolan]

The corn on the cob ears here so far this season have been on the small side, but very tasty. The growing season may be impacted by the weather.

The good news on the 2026 growing season is my tomatoes are doing great this year, far better than last year.

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