RecipeMuncher

If I could only choose one food to grow myself, it would without a doubt be tomatoes. If you have never had a home-grown tomato, you really don’t know what you are missing out on. Growing up, my dad always had a decent sized garden. There were 5 of us kids, and each of us would be assigned our rows in the garden that we had to keep weed free. I hated that. We would get up and out in the garden early on Saturdays, hoping to finish our weeds before the heat started to hit. Sometimes we were lazy, waiting until further into the day, but that is when we really hated that garden - having to sit and pull weeds in the heat of the sun. But when my mom would make a “garden dinner”, all ill thoughts of having to weed the garden were gone. These were my favorite nights - chile rellenos, yellow squash mashed with milk and butter, and slices of fresh tomatoes and cucumbers. My mouth starts watering just thinking of these meals.

Summer and fall was …

[ts]
I don’t know why we do this to ourselves, but so far, every time we’ve had to submit something for a blog event, we almost tear our hair out trying to come up with something “different”… or so we think.

It was no different for Wandering Chopsticks’ Weekend Wokking event. The theme: tomato. (All info at the bottom of the post.)

We were torn: should we do something very simple? I mean, that is the best way to showcase the natural beauty and flavors of the tomato. I was tempted just to blog about a really ripe tomato sprinkled with coarse salt!

But then, if we do something simple, how are we to gain our blog-street-cred?

[js]
I thought we could do something like a tomato and blue cheese souffle. I love tomatoes and blue cheese together. TS might have done a souffle before, but never…

[ts]
I don’t know why we do this to ourselves, but so far, every time we’ve had to submit something for a blog event, we almost tear our hair out trying to come up with something “different”… or so we think.

It was no different for Wandering Chopsticks’ Weekend Wokking event. The theme: tomato. (All info at the bottom of the post.)

We were torn: should we do something very simple? I mean, that is the best way to showcase the natural beauty and flavors of the tomato. I was tempted just to blog about a really ripe tomato sprinkled with coarse salt!

But then, if we do something simple, how are we to gain our blog-street-cred?

[js]
I thought we could do something like a tomato and blue cheese souffle. I love tomatoes and blue cheese together. TS might have done a souffle before, but never…