Productivity!

[ofearthandstars]

Although my tomato plants are long gone, my mother has amassed a small army of tomato plants and therefore gave me about a zillion tomatoes yesterday. This has made me all kinds of giggly happy while at same time leaving me worried that they'll spoil before we can eat them all. So I got to making some fresh salsa:


(The jar is reused.) This will go with our seitan & portobello fajitas tonight. (Which reminds me, time to get the seitan out of the freezer). I'm also thinking about making some marinara.

I also got around to making this Great Apple Cake, which is not made with tomatoes, but secretly contains a can of Great Northern beans:


I meant to take a photo before we dug into it, but small people were shouting excitedly around me so I surrendered and gave them pieces to stop. It is so moist and good, I had to fight L. off of it to save some for dessert. :P

I am also cooking up some fresh vegetable stock (not pretty enough for a picture AT ALL), and working on drawing up the dinner menu.

My only other accomplishments today have involved a Week 5 run for C25k, mopping the kitchen, and washing the towels. I've been going back and forth between other work tasks and doing them bit-by-bit, as I really didn't want to work all weekend, but have some work-related stuff that needs to get done. *sigh*

Comments

[pinesandmaples]

The Farmer sold me on this idea, but chopped tomatoes freeze pretty well. I froze them in 2 cup increments and used one bag for my chana masala. I really enjoyed having freezer tomatoes instead of turning to canned.

[ofearthandstars]

Do they not break down more in the freezer? I've thought about trying this (although truth be told, I don't think I have the freezer space right now), but my mother seemed to indicate they didn't fare as well there.

I've thought about canning, them, too, except I don't have a lot of canning supplies so I'd have to acquire those.

[pinesandmaples]

They break down a little bit, but the recipes I intended them to appear in revolved around the tomatoes being cooked down for full effect. If I have enough tomatoes this year, I will dice-and-freeze again because they freeze pretty flat and are worth my time for Indian food. (I cook a lot of Indian.)

[ofearthandstars]

Good to know, thank you! We cook a lot of Indian, too. (I'm kind of obsessed.)

[burning_bright]

Oh, an apple cake with beans! Sounds very interesting. Could I possibly have the recipe, please?

[ofearthandstars]

Sure, I'll message it.