Life Lessons From a BLT Sandwich

[CPort]

Paula, I love reading your stuff too, felt I was there. I'm "fixing" to put up pear relish if I can stand up ok. My birthday was Sat. and I bought myself a new pair of heals(high wedges). Well yesterday at church, I turned my foot walking down a long hard hallway. I've had my foot "in the air" since.

 

[Hop]

now i'm hungry...and all i have are the red round ones... for me..

 

[Teresa]

oh, paula, how you can write about food and life! yummy!!!

 

[30A Skunkape]

Brilliant post!

 

[seacrestkristi]

That was yummy! Savor the flavor... ;-)

 

[Paula]

Gosh... Yes, fresh runny tomatoes bring out the poet in me... I just couldn't keep it to myself so thanks for appreciating those thoughts. Maybe you have some thoughts about life lessons from a BLT sandwich, too. I love "savor the flavor"! Maybe I'll try an ugli tomato if I can find one -- especially in January. Fried baloney sandwiches are good with mustard (but they don't make me poetic and I haven't had one in many years). Sorry about your foot cp - can you make the pear relish sitting down? Maybe you need to get one of those high stools on wheels and scoot yourself around the kitchen.

 

[Mermaid]

It's funny that you're writing about tomatoes because I was reading something just today about apples. I was travel-planning our trip to England at the end of the month and came across a website devoted to apples in Devon (the southwest of UK). There was a line that stuck in my head about how many small apple orchards are threatened because the big supermarkets demand "perfect" apples, much to the chagrin of farmers who love the old-fashioned variety. There's a movement to save the old varieties that aren't perfectly red, perfectly round, and perfectly blemish-less. The farmers have begun fighting back and educating the public about how what "looks" perfect doesn't taste perfect.

 

[Paula]

Verrry interesting, Mermaid. There's a Japanese concept called Wabi Sabi which says that there's beauty in the imperfect. That's why in the Japanese tea ceremony, ideally the cups are all a little different from each other (which shows that they were carefully hand-made by an artisan(s) rather than mass produced).

My husband also said the tomato was runny so he thought it was old (I had a slice yesterday). The engineered tomatoes probably aren't runny so that they stay preserved better for travelling and on the shelves -- and much of the taste is probably in the runny stuff inside the tomato.

If anyone in SoWal has an old family heirloom tomato they could save the seeds and we could call it the SoWal tomato. To be an heirloom tomato, it has to go back 3 family generations (I just read that).

 

[Biff]

Excellence!!!!!