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Harvest Monday August 5, 2024

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It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. Tomatoes are playing a starring role in our harvests lately, and ones of all shapes, sizes and colors are coming in from the garden. We’ve been enjoying them every way we can, and as often as possible since tomato season never lasts long enough for me. tomatoes with cucumber tomato harvest Chef’s Choice Purple tomato We sliced up one of the Chef’s Choice Purple tomatoes for use on sandwiches, and the taste was great – a nice blend of acid and sweet that I really like. sliced Chef’s Choice Purple tomato I’ve been slow roasting some of the smaller fruited ones. I did one sheet pan last week, and this batch went into the freezer for later use. I also dehydrated a few, which is another of my favorite ways to use these smaller ones when we have lots of them. Slow-Roasted Tomatoes In non-tomato news, I harvested the first sweet peppers last week, Cornito Giallo and Cornito Rosso, along w...