Yellow tomatoes play the role of Juicy Meaty in this year’s first summer salsa, alongside cowhorns as Deepsmoke Spicy and cherry tomatoes as Lil RedTart.
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.” -Marc Chagall
Cue Jaws music as the gardener moves in steadily and craftily for the kill, errr… harvest.
Tomato, that is. Flagrant exhibitionists, the tomatoes hide their immature, underage seedy green hearts beneath their every burgeoning, curvaceous fruit.
The first pod has been deployed and is growing at a rather non-alarming rate. Hopefully it won’t be ripe until I find a recipe for Facehugger Baba Ghannoush.
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet must-roses, and with eglantine.”
– William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mac-n-cheese cupcakes, potato salad, green bean casserole, marshmallow fruit salad, jello molds, 7-layer bars, and more hotdogs wrapped in a bacon than you can shake a fork at.
