{"id":3498,"date":"2012-08-31T17:21:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2012-08-31T17:21:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:21:23","slug":"labor-day-already-five-things-to-do-with-all-those-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/2012\/08\/labor-day-already-five-things-to-do-with-all-those-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day Already? Five Things To Do With All Those Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How does it happen that it\u2019s Labor Day weekend already? I don\u2019t know where the hour, the day, the week, the month, the summer went. I just know I\u2019m exhausted.<\/p>\n

This week I spent two days recording 50 new 1-minute \u201crecipe-lets\u201d for WGBH Boston and Fine Cooking<\/em> magazine<\/a>. (You can listen\u2014and giggle if you want\u2014to one I recorded last spring here<\/a>.) This time I recorded them at the lovely WCAI Cape and Islands NPR radio station<\/a> in Woods Hole. That meant just a short hop on the ferry for me, without the drive to Boston added on. Nevertheless, those two days came and went in a blur, and then I jumped on some overdue recipe developing\u2014and forgot completely about my blog this week!<\/p>\n

Now here it is Friday and, already, the afternoon. Um, correction, evening. I tried to start writing this about six hours ago, but got a call to return to the clinic (waiting lines are long for doctors around here, especially in August, so you get on a list, they take your number, and call you back.) I have a nagging cough mixed with horrendous seasonal allergy. (As luck would\u00a0 have it, I am allergic to my favorite place in the world\u2014the outdoors\u2014especially this time of year. And breathing is becoming an issue!)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It would have been smarter to get up early and make a beeline for the clinic, but of course I\u2019m busy every morning harvesting and getting the farm stand set up. Probably I could do a much faster job of setting up if I didn\u2019t stop to fuss over the veggies like I do\u2014or run inside to get the camera to take pictures, like I did today. The farm stand looked so pretty this morning that I had to snap a few pics before putting the sign out. Sure enough, it wasn\u2019t long before a stream of cars came down the driveway (traffic is certainly up for the holiday weekend), and the flowers were gone and most of the green beans. I wish I had a magic hat from which to pull more green beans.<\/p>\n

But there are still plenty of tomatoes, and I thought I\u2019d better explain that our tomatoes were not a total disaster this year. My friend Eliza read last week\u2019s blog<\/a> and called me up, worried that the tomato problems were catastrophic. Really, with all the things that have befallen the plants, it\u2019s amazing that we\u2019re still harvesting a lot of fruit. I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019d have done with them all if we\u2019d gotten a bigger yield. As it is I have two sheet trays of tomatoes on the kitchen table that aren\u2019t sellable, but aren\u2019t quite chicken food yet. I\u2019ve been meaning to make and freeze marinara, but I need a clone or a kitchen assistant in order to get that done. (I\u2019m kinda thinking, well, Libby\u2019s ten now, maybe handling a sharp knife would be okay. Nah, I think not. Besides, she\u2019s on egg patrol. Actually, she\u2019s waiting for me to finish this so we can all go get lobster rolls for dinner up in Menemsha!)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am thinking maybe there are more than a few of you out there with a glut (or just a bounty) of tomatoes on your hands this Labor Day, so I thought I\u2019d pass along five of my favorite things to do with them. In short, they are Bruschetta<\/a>, Bread Salad<\/a>, Pasta<\/a>, Veggie Gratin<\/a> and Roasting.<\/a> (And more roasting,<\/a> of course.) I\u2019d offer up more ideas (many favorites over at finecooking.com), but the sun is setting, August is almost over, and one last lobster roll is calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How does it happen that it\u2019s Labor Day weekend already? I don\u2019t know where the hour, the day, the week, the month, the summer went. I just know I\u2019m exhausted. This week I spent two days recording 50 new 1-minute \u201crecipe-lets\u201d for WGBH Boston and Fine Cooking magazine. (You can listen\u2014and giggle if you want\u2014to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}