Too many Tomatoes !
The Kitchen Garden has been prolific to say the least this year. We’ve harvested the Tomatoes twice for bottling now and there’s probably a third batch (as well as Patrice’s Green Tomato Jam) still to do! Fully exposed to the intense Tuscan Summer sun – phew! hot work! – but what a lot of glorious produce…
Out of the Kitchen Garden and into the house, and the place was truly overrun, it was a special feeling ! Italian Tomatoes are always great of course, but when they’re just picked from your own garden, untreated (100% natural) at their peak of ripeness and still warm from the sun they’re surely at their absolute best.
My dad would love them ! but who wouldn’t ?
This year there are so many it seems that the house guests aren’t even making a dent in the crop. It’s a glut and there’s no mistaking. Malvin decides it’s time to intervene; he never does anything by half…
Ten hours of washing, chopping, bringing to the boil and bottling (it’s a labour of love) and we end up with a good supply of bottled sunshine – about 60 litres, And a classic Italian Tomato dish for lunch, of course.
