Our garden is complete crap this year, as usual. It is wickedly hot here, very dry, and the smoke from the forest fires has kept us hidden inside for what feels like most of the summer.
We got a few thumb sized tomatos off our plant before it shriveled up into brown twigs, but nothing worth getting excited about. My parents, on the other hand, are having a booming tomato crop. We have been graciously helping them out to make sure none of them go to waste.
Here's some of the stuff we've made -
First, because it was one of the best - Avocado Feta Crack Dip which was wicked goooooood. We ate it as a salad. I could eat this every day and not get tired of it. Our was too hideous to take a photo of it as I was not a gentle mixer, but it tasted damn fine.
We also tried, as part of my cookbook purge on Instagram, Spaghetti Con Salsa Fresca from The Urban Vegan. Big hit.
I have a few recipes written out from Move Over Santa, Ruby's Doin Christmas! by Ruby Ann Boxcar; and let me tell you that this is a really, really, REALLY good dish. If only the price of bacon wasn't so ridiculous, I would buy more corn and bacon and make it again today.
Faye Faye's Fried Christmas Corn Dish Delight
altered slightly from Move Over, Santa - Ruby's Doin Christmas!
6 strips of bacon
1/2 small onion, diced finely
1/2 red bell pepper, chopped finely
kernels off of 6 ears of corn
1 large tomato, diced
salt
pepper
Chop bacon into small pieces and fry over medium heat until crisp. Removed to a plate. Add the onion and bell pepper to the bacon fat and cook until softened and just starting to brown. Add the corn and tomato and cook until hot. Season to taste. Stir in the bacon and eat!
I am really considering trying the Soda Cracker Pie from the book- basically egg whites, sugar and cracker crumbs. Has anyone tried it before! Yes/no?
I made Gwyneth Paltrow's roasted salsa out of her last book It's All Easy.
Our oven is on the fritz so i nearly burned the veggies, but I just pulled off the worst bits and it was fine. (As I wrote this I suddenly remembered that when I cooked some tomatos from another one of her books, I nearly burned them too.....whoa - 5 years ago!)
The Kids don't like spicy food much, so I left out the peppers. It was good!
This one was amazing too. God, I love when tomatos are in season! We all loved this
We are nowhere near done - I have an enormous tub of tomatos sitting on the counter, and there are more ripening in The Grandparents garden as we speak. I need to find some more recipes asap.
