W0000000t!

[greenstorm]

I spent the day picking tomatoes. Nine grocery bags later, I am making sauce. This sauce contains: flamme, gardener's delight, early cascade, pink brandywine, peach(!!!!!!!), black plum, and viva italia tomatoes. I didn't put any Black Krim in this batch. It is: so, so, so good; mineminemine; mind-bogglingly beautiful in a deep orange-red colour; and the best tomato-grower cred ever. There are pictures of the sinkful of tomatoes that went into the sauce. When the Juggler gets his camera working, you will see them.

I am giving some away to bioentropy, possibly some to Ellen, and some zucchini to Tillie and Ellen (since I'm not making sauce with it).

The peach tomatoes are obviously ripe. They're the most beautiful things ever. They're fuzzy with a green powder that comes off on your fingers, very lightly yellow and blushed with a faint orange wash in some cases. When you cook them, they become day-glo yellow/green. A sauce done entirely in them would be amazing. They have a perfumy taste.

The gardeners' delight (which are the cherry tomatoes) are very intensely flavoured. They're too strong for me to eat straight, so I sauce them.

The black plum remain my favourite all-round plant, with (random swearing) tons of tomatoes on them, and the first to ripen too. These plants are unbelievably prolific, and they taste great.

I haven't tasted a black krim yet, but the brandywines rock, as always, even though they're ugly and have green shoulders and lots of malformation.

The early cascade are boring supermarket tomatoes, kind of golf-bally in texture. ;) Good compared to anything in stores, but better for saucing than fresh eating.

The flamme are quite sweet, though not as sweet as sungold.

Oh, gods, are these things ever beautiful together. Can't wait for the pics.

Comments

[lazarus7.livejournal.com]

I have a fridge full of cherry tomatoes from a friend's garden. Sooo tasty.

Never heard of black plum tomatoes before though. What are those like? (besides the obvious name references that is)

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

They're very tasty, not too sweet or too tart/acid for my taste. They're little, about the length of a thumb, and roma-tomato-shaped. Black means that they, when ripe, are a mix of red and green, so they're not actually 'black' black.

Hm. There *will* be pictures.

[lazarus7.livejournal.com]

thanks!

Happy greenie

[http://users.livejournal.com/_greenwitch_/]

I'm quite happy to take some tomatotes and zuchinni off your green-thumbed hands, and I'm thrilled to hear that your plants have been so bountiful! I want to see this peach tomato :) I will head over to see you after work on Monday - call it five-ish, and you can let me sample your sauce. I did do the taste-test of the sample tomatoes, and found the black plum nice and mellow, the cherry tomatoes delightful, and the orange-tinged (?) fruit waaaaaay too acidic for my taste. I have the betta meeting marked on my calendar.

[vhramis.livejournal.com]

We had tomatoes growing. Cherry and the larger type (I'm not too familiar with terms, unfortunately). They turned out quite good. So good, in fact, that my sister's dog was trying to eat them right off the plant.
Blah. :)

[echo2oak.livejournal.com]

I /so/ wish I could take fresh stuff over the border - your tomatoe treasure sounds delectible!

Tis wonderful that you're being 'saucy' about them though, they all sound very luxurious.