Now, Northern NH isn't the mid-Atlantic: but even here, it's been a very good year for 'maters
mhardy6647
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Having grown up in Baltimore, I am pretty picky about good, fresh, local 'maters. Tomatoes just don't get any better than those grown south of Baltimore & across the bridge on the Eastern Shore (despite what folks from New Jersey and Virginia may tell you). But the hot, dry summer up here in NH has led to a crop of pretty darned respectable love apples this year.
Starting to make some vintage 2016 'mater sauce at our house.
Yesterday I picked a bunch of pretty darned ripe ones to use in a fave roasted tomato sauce recipe we've been making here for a few years. The recipe, which originated at Maine's Stonewall Farms is very simple and, best of all, requires only vegetables & herbs that we grow right in the ol' backyard. Other than the olive oil, salt, pepper and (if desired) sugar, everything else is ours
DSC_5718 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
DSC_5720 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
DSC_5722 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
I am embarrassed by the rather unappetizing color imparted by the stove's CFL hood lights above :P I tried to adjust it, but couldn't really get it much better. It really does look, and taste, extremely nommy -- and the aroma it imparts to the house whilst roasting is nothing short of sublime.
Starting to make some vintage 2016 'mater sauce at our house.
Yesterday I picked a bunch of pretty darned ripe ones to use in a fave roasted tomato sauce recipe we've been making here for a few years. The recipe, which originated at Maine's Stonewall Farms is very simple and, best of all, requires only vegetables & herbs that we grow right in the ol' backyard. Other than the olive oil, salt, pepper and (if desired) sugar, everything else is ours
DSC_5718 by Mark Hardy, on FlickrDSC_5720 by Mark Hardy, on FlickrDSC_5722 by Mark Hardy, on FlickrI am embarrassed by the rather unappetizing color imparted by the stove's CFL hood lights above :P I tried to adjust it, but couldn't really get it much better. It really does look, and taste, extremely nommy -- and the aroma it imparts to the house whilst roasting is nothing short of sublime.
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Wow! Nice work there, Doc!
I usually get a pretty decent return, but for the past three years now mine haven't been up to my usual preferred standard. They still taste of that deliciousy homegrown garden tomato flavor, but most are blemmed in some manner, unlike your picture perfect harvest there!
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'Mater sauce.....mmmmmm good!
Sexy pickins, Mr. H. -
plenty more out there -- in fact, I should head out and do some pickin'.
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Yeah, well... you're down in the Sweet Spot for 'maters.
Tomatoes are something of a religion in and around Baltimore. I always say that anyone in Baltimore who had enough space at their abode for a tomato plant... had a tomato plant. And (realizing I'm repeating myself yet again... it's an Old Guy thing) the groundskeepers at the old Memorial Stadium grew 'maters out by the bullpen. I always thought that spoke volumes of the devotion of Marylanders/Baltimoreans to the love apple.
PS Sweet corn here is good, too... but nothing like it is in MD.
