What do you do with the tomatoes that drop to the ground while still green? If they are large enough, you can put them in a windowsill or a paper bag and hope they ripen properly. Or you can make fermented tomatoes – a tasty, healthy treat.
Ingredients:
- 1 tsp. sea salt (approx.)
- 2-3 tomatoes, cut into wedges (the fermentation went quicker when I cut the tomatoes)
- 2 – 3 cloves garlic, peeled
- 1 tsp. pickling spice: mine has pepper, dill, mustard seeds
- Optional: dill seed from homegrown dill
Put all the ingredients in a jar. Cover with water. Cover the jar with a cloth and a rubber band.
Does my jar look a bit like Laurence of Arabia? Let the pickles sit for about a week, maybe less if it’s very warm. Be sure to check it every day. When it begins to form a little foam on top, it is fermenting. That’s when I usually cover it with the jar lid and put it in the refrigerator.
If you try this, please let me know. It’s even easier than pickling cucumbers.
On Websites for Small Biz I posted an interview with Renée Joslyn of Freakin’ Flamingo and Flamingo Musings. Hope you will visit the interview:
Comments on the post are most welcome. If you scroll to the bottom of the interview, you will find links to her challah and brisket recipes. Yum. And hummus pizza, too.
With the temperature and humidity high in New Jersey, is it any wonder that I am posting an indoor activity for Summer Stock? In the first scene of Jack and the Beanstalk at Middlesex County College Theater Camp, the mother looks for Jack and Jill.
My daughter is playing a market girl. She did well in the tryouts, so she may get a bigger role in an upcoming play. As her mom, I try not get my hopes or her hopes up too high.
My favorite character was the giant. My daughter said one of the teen counselors played the giant, who is tall in real life, too.
If you are in central New Jersey, you can see the play The Little Mermaid next Friday, July 29. On Friday August 5 the camp will put on Willy Wonka. Tickets are $3/person and showtimes are 9:30 am and 11:00 am.
For more Summer Stock Sunday:
Can you spot the change from this roof to this new one that I am posting today? And I don’t mean the background color.
I decided I prefer drawing the old-fashioned way – with paper and pencil and paints. But I will probably plod along with this scheme of roofs until I get to the fun part, which will be adding color and texture and variety.
I hope you will come back tomorrow – I plan to post an interview with a relationships coach. Stay tuned.
OK, it’s a regular-sized peach, but I liked the title.
I bought these peaches at the farmer’s market on Friday.
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