I'm already craving home-grown tomatoes!
Jun 6, 2015 15:18:44 #
Every year, I plant several tomato plants.... usually a few beefsteaks and a couple of cherry tomatoes. A couple of years ago, I planted a variety called Goliath. They certainly lived up to their name! This particular one measured a little over 17 1/2" in circumference!
Although they were very large, they didn't have that wonderful, acidic taste of the beefsteak variety that I like so much, so, this year it's back to the time-tested varieties.... and my mouth is a waterin'! I love tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches! Nothin' better than a sun-warmed, red-ripe tomato with lots of acid!
Although they were very large, they didn't have that wonderful, acidic taste of the beefsteak variety that I like so much, so, this year it's back to the time-tested varieties.... and my mouth is a waterin'! I love tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches! Nothin' better than a sun-warmed, red-ripe tomato with lots of acid!
Jun 6, 2015 15:41:13 #
Jun 6, 2015 15:51:54 #
Dewman wrote:
Every year, I plant several tomato plants.... usua... (show quote)
It's almost sweet corn and tomato time in Indiana. The best time of the year.
Jun 6, 2015 16:00:18 #
NealB wrote:
It's almost sweet corn and tomato time in Indiana. The best time of the year.
They grow a variety of sweet corn here in Idaho called Bodacious. The kernels are a mixture of white and yellow and it's the best I've ever tasted in my life! Have you ever heard of this type?
Jun 6, 2015 16:16:33 #
Dewman wrote:
They grow a variety of sweet corn here in Idaho called Bodacious. The kernels are a mixture of white and yellow and it's the best I've ever tasted in my life! Have you ever heard of this type?
Yes and it is sweet and tasty. I could almost become a vegetarian during corn and tomato season. We are lucky we live in a small town and the farm stands only carry grown on the property goods. They also sell a lot of air-loom and organic vegetables. There is a couple farmers that will take orders from locals and make fresh picked daily/weekly deliveries at no extra charge to them. I sign up every year.
Jun 6, 2015 17:35:45 #
The home grown tomatoes have a magnificent flavor all to their own - got 4 different types (4 plants) growing myself - very short growing season here.
Jun 6, 2015 18:31:56 #
Here, we have Vidalia onions local, so we put a slab of sweet onion on our mater samiches, too.
Jun 6, 2015 18:45:46 #
OH yes Vidalia onion dabbed with butter, wrapped in foil and BBQ to perfection - Yummmy - paired up with sliced home grown toms with light salt & pepper.
Michael Hartley wrote:
Here, we have Vidalia onions local, so we put a slab of sweet onion on our mater samiches, too.
Jun 6, 2015 19:36:48 #
Harvey wrote:
OH yes Vidalia onion dabbed with butter, wrapped in foil and BBQ to perfection - Yummmy - paired up with sliced home grown toms with light salt & pepper.
You guys are killin' me! I have a beer-batter recipe for onion rings and Vidalias are the best on earth! Hmmm..... maybe I can cook up a batch of them for tonight's poker game!
Harvey, I'm originally from Ceres, California.... a couple of miles south of Modesto. I moved here - to Idaho - almost 20 years ago.
Jun 6, 2015 19:45:54 #
90% of my working life was in the produce dpt. When the Vidalias came in season we could not keep them in stalk - for good reason too.
Yep Ceres is not too far from here but I am sure you would not like it back here now - something like when I left Wallace, ID in '55 and never looked back - well I visited my brother 3 times - this summer is our 60th class reunion and when I thought over going back the negative sure out weighed the positive so I am going camping fishing & photographing here in the Sierras instead.
Harvey
Yep Ceres is not too far from here but I am sure you would not like it back here now - something like when I left Wallace, ID in '55 and never looked back - well I visited my brother 3 times - this summer is our 60th class reunion and when I thought over going back the negative sure out weighed the positive so I am going camping fishing & photographing here in the Sierras instead.
Harvey
Dewman wrote:
You guys are killin' me! I have a beer-batter recipe for onion rings and Vidalias are the best on earth! Hmmm..... maybe I can cook up a batch of them for tonight's poker game!
Harvey, I'm originally from Ceres, California.... a couple of miles south of Modesto. I moved here - to Idaho - almost 20 years ago.
Harvey, I'm originally from Ceres, California.... a couple of miles south of Modesto. I moved here - to Idaho - almost 20 years ago.
Jun 6, 2015 19:51:18 #
Yah also known as "Salt & Pepper" corn dang good.
Dewman wrote:
They grow a variety of sweet corn here in Idaho called Bodacious. The kernels are a mixture of white and yellow and it's the best I've ever tasted in my life! Have you ever heard of this type?
Jun 6, 2015 20:13:14 #
Harvey wrote:
Yah also known as "Salt & Pepper" corn dang good.
In PA, we call it butter&sugar. The best!
Jun 7, 2015 09:11:09 #
Jun 7, 2015 09:13:36 #
Dewman wrote:
.They grow a variety of sweet corn here in Idaho called Bodacious. The kernels are a mixture of white and yellow and it's the best I've ever tasted in my life! Have you ever heard of this type?
There are several varieties of the yellow and white corn around the country. In the east it's called butter and sugar corn. There is also a variety that grows in Olathe, Colorado. I can't remember it's name but it was even better than the eastern variety. If any of you Coloradoan "Hogs" know what it's called please let me know. Thae corn festival in Olathe is certainly worth going to. (Randy Travis performed there).
Jun 7, 2015 09:18:20 #
Vidalia onions, Texas sweets and Walla Walla onions. I've had them all, and can't tell you which is better. My mom would prepare her onion rings, put a little oil in the frypan, add a little basil and garlic and saute them. Great on hamburgers or as a side.
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