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My small Mountain Magic tomatoes are finished. I do have some in the freezer. Now my beefsteaks are starting to ripen. They are huge! Talk about good timing.
Today I made a batch of Healthy Oatmeal Cookies from Martha Stewart. It's a small recipe (maybe that's part of what makes them healthy) that uses oil instead of butter or shortening. I used fruitcake fruit blend from KAB as I have some that needs to be used up and added some coconut flakes. They came out pretty good.
I got 18 cookies out of it.
That happened more than 10 years ago. I was watering the garden and I saw the rabbit move close to the tomato. I didn't think too much of it, I never chase them away. Then his nose started to wiggle and then he was on the tomato. Well, once bit, he owns it. I realized this was a Kodak Moment. I put my hose down and slowly moved away as not to startle it. Went into the house, got the camera, changed the lens to the longest one I had, went back out and luckily he was still there. So I started taking pictures, slowly getting closer. When I got too close, he took off.
Sacrificing the tomato for the pic was worth it.
Skeptic, if I'm going to ripen tomatoes outside, I leave them on the vine. If I want to pull them off to protect them from insect/critter damage, I take them inside to finish ripening. Once off the vine, I don't think they need additional sunlight.
I've had this happen to me too. That was some years ago but was the first ripening tomato of the year.
I made a batch of my sandwich/burger buns this afternoon but I withheld enough dough to make a pizza. I made the sauce with some tomato paste and some of the Mountain Magic tomatoes from my garden, added a little oregano and garlic powder to it. Topping were a little pepperoni, an Italian sausage that I cooked on the BBQ Sunday and peppers from my garden. It was excellent. Enough left over for tomorrow's lunch.
