Wyatt's Way

Every couple of days now, we harvest around 70 lbs of tomatoes...

Stanzie says, "Bark Bark!!" " Who planted all those tomatoes?"

(Pleeze send your tomato recipes!! E-mail address below )

Dad is busy making roasted tomato soup.

He cuts 4 pounds of tomatoes in quarters, puts them on a roasting pan with 12 cloves of peeled garlic, 1/4 cup of EVOO (olive oil), 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Then he roasts it in the 500 degree oven for 35 minutes. Meanwhile in a large saucepan, he puts 1/4 cup EVOO, 1 chopped yellow onion and some salt and cooks for 8-10 minutes until the onions are soft. He adds 2 cups of basil leaves and cooks for one more minute. When the tomatoes are slightly cooled from the oven, he adds them to the onion in the saucepan with 2 cups of cold water and cooks for 10 minutes. Add more salt and pepper to taste. Then he purees the tomato mixture in a blender, starting on a slow speed until the mixture is smooth.

This makes 8 cups of the best tomato soup you will ever have!

We freeze it in Tupperware and enjoy it with grilled cheese sandwiches in the winter!

I steal help myself, to at least one tomato per day...

I take it under the Pieris bush, where I keep all my treasures.

What? You have never seen a dog eat a whole tomato?

We also grew these little melons, 'Minnesota Midgets'

They are just getting ripe now.

I give them 2 paws up!

Happy Harvest!

Wyatt

Please send your tomato recipes to:

wyattsriot2010 at gmail dot com      THANK YOU!!