“OK…. enough with the tomatoes already!”

Ok, I’m just kidding, but MAN we got a lot of tomatoes! Today I actually picked them using a WHEEL BARROW!
I think we could fill an Olympic pool with tomato sauce! We got our fall garden in already, and a lot of the summer crops started cranking out vegetable again because of the nice weather.
Here [...]

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Weekends are just TOO short!

It is VERY late and I am fighting off Monday like the plague! It has been forever since we have taken any family pictures so I figured I would shoot a few today.
Here are a few with more to come.
It’s been a great weekend and it makes me appreciate my wife, my daughter and the [...]

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I guess I’ll have to eat my words….

I am known for saying that there are NO yellow or orange beefsteak tomatoes that have any flavor. For the most part they are very bland, and usually mealy.
Well, let me introduce you to Kellogg’s Breakfast. The name has nothing to do with corn flakes. It was named after the West Virginia family that introduced [...]

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Overtomato-osis…… look it up it’s a word I swear.

Holy Toledo!
I have picked HUNDREDS of tomatoes in the past 4 days! I am not counting cherry, or grape tomatoes, or the tiny little salad tomatoes. I am talking ONE per hand tomatoes!
We have been eating them all day every day, giving them away, making sauce, freezing, and selling them. I still have 85 tomatoes [...]

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I know I know …. “enough with the tomato posts” Green beans just aren’t as interesting!

We’ve already established that I am a tomato snob, but c’mon can you blame me?! We made sauce today with 5 different kinds of heirloom tomatoes, our homegrown garlic, and herbs over fresh pasta, and toasted homemade garlic bread.
SERIOUSLY “good eats”!
The Varieties alone are enough to make one grin! Green ones, red ones, purple ones, [...]

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I Love Summer Fruit

One of these days, I will have my own fruit orchard, but until then, I will enjoy the fruits I can find at the Farmers market or Whole Foods! I made this dessert for us tonight, and it was so amazing. The flavors from the peaches and apricots together are perfect. Topped [...]

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All I can say is WOW !

PLEASE take 10 minutes to watch this video, I mean REALLY watch it, then visit their website. The link to their site is below the video clip.
Throughout my adult life, I’ve always been conscious about the environment and what we should do to reduce our impact on the earth. One of my motivations was the [...]

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