Yes. It is over. The girls are gone. I was a bit blubbery about it yesterday, more so than I expected, but today I feel happy and satisfied that we did a good job, on the whole, and that they have left more mature and experienced young women whose lives are forever changed for the good. Not to mention their English, which was already good when they got here, is now perfect. They even learned "douche" and "cunt" and "twat". We did good.
I'll have more to say on the experience later, after I'll mulled it over a bit more. But for now, I'd like to talk about food. More specifically, tomatoes.
These are all from the garden. In the past week. And there are more coming. LOTS more. And in fact, these are just from four out of five plants, because the fifth hasn't produced anything yet, the bastard. It was the one I was most excited about too (German Orange tomatoes, but I'm pretty happy about the prolific production of our Cherokee Purple, so I guess it makes up for it. I like crazy colored tomatoes.). In FACT, as I was writing this I thought I'd better go out and see if there were anymore that need to be picked before a bird gets at them, and I brought in about 10 more. Holy!
So, we had to have our first proper summer tomato meal. Observe!
Tomato and mozzarella for dinner? Yes! We did! And probably will a lot more, by the look of that pile of tomatoes.
We also made a gorgeous tossed tomato salad for Fanny's last dinner. We also made fingerling potatoes and grilled salmon, but we didn't grow those.
As a side note, I was making a herb paste to cover the salmon with, when, as I started pouring my brand new Whole Foods course sea salt into it, the top came plum off and spilled the entire contents of the sea salt container into the food processer with all my herbs, butter, etc. At the time I was mightily displeased, but ends up a salt crust is perfect for grilled salmon - it was wonderful. So all ended well. If salty.
I'm still sort of annoyed with the poor packaging job, however.
Tomatoes!
nothing says summer better than caprese salad in my book. yum yum... also, fresh salsa. oh, and lots of white wine.
Posted by: annie-san | 16 June 2009 at 12:55 PM
Feel free to pack up and send a few of those babies in my direction. They'd be gobbled up in a flash!
Posted by: Terra | 16 June 2009 at 03:15 PM
reminds me of that movie back in the day "The Last Supper" lots of tomatoes.
Posted by: bicyclemark | 16 June 2009 at 11:13 PM
yummy..... tomatoes with a few sprinkles of sugar sounds de-lish...
Posted by: nebraskaboy | 02 July 2009 at 08:13 PM