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4 Ways to Preserve All Your Tomatoes at the Same Time
In the most ideal world, you would process all your tomatoes in one weekend. Save the miserable task of heating up the kitchen, burning your fingers and being endlessly on your feet for one or two days where you can wrangle everyone you know into helping, or at least binge-watch an entire season or two…
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How to Make Tomato Ranch, the Ranch of the Summer
My refrigerator is broken. Not broken in a way that cannot be fixed, but broken in a way that requires a specialist of some kind. It has taken over a week to schedule that specialist, so I’ve been working with a mini fridge for eight (8) days. This has obviously limited the amount of perishables…
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Sauté Underwhelming Tomatoes in Butter
It is August, which means I should have had a decent tomato sandwich by now, but the weather in Portland is a mess, my garden is a disaster, and none of my tomatoes have ripened to the point of being sandwich-worthy.
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You Can Eat Tomato Leaves and Stems (No, Really)
I love the smell of tomato leaves. I think they’re summery and seductive — so much so that I often douse myself in a tomato leaf-scented perfume (that I made myself at a “perfume college” in the South of France). For me, the smell of tomato leaves ranks almost as high as the taste of…