in regards to winter tomatoes

[wildhorses]

Poll question: in regards to winter tomatoes

*sigh* i can't wait til summer

[Redstone]

1. Canned tomatoes. They're picked and canned when they're ripe.

Redstone

[wildhorses]

3. trudat--

but, they make for a messy sammitch and look funny in my salad *sigh*

they look pretty in the jars in the pantry though:bounce:

[Redstone]

5. Gotta drain them well. And a messy sandwich with good 'maters is better

than a polite sandwich without, yes?

Redstone

[wildhorses]

7. again you are right--

yes. messy is best...:bounce:

[yewberry]

2. And they're $4.99/lb

right now at the market up the street.

Fuckers.

[wildhorses]

4. its a sacrilege

there oughta be a law...

[Redstone]

6. Uh, production costs? It ain't cheap to heat a greenhouse.

Redstone

[yewberry]

16. You know, that is true.

It does cost a lot more to produce produce (ooh, that looks funny) during the off-season.

Production costs must be a lot less in MA, where tomatoes at my old grocery store are $1.79/lb.
(Snark not meant to be directed at you--food is routinely 50-100% more here than in my home state, and it makes me cranky!)

[Left Is Write]

8. I use Roma tomatoes in winter.

[Redstone]

9. Canned, or hothouse?

Redstone

[Left Is Write]

10. Fresh, from the produce section. I suppose those would be hothouse.

I always keep canned tomatoes around, though, so if I'm looking for diced to use in soup or sauce or hotdish, I'll use canned.

I like to use Roma tomato slices on pizza and in green salads because they hold their shape nicely.

For fresh tomato and mozzarella salad - I wait until summer.

[Redstone]

11. We have a company from New Jersey who markets "ugly" (hydroponic) tomatoes

during the winter around here, and they're not bad. They cost the moon, but it's one of the few indulgences I allow myself.

We Americans are so damn spoiled, expecting to be able to buy fresh vegetables all year 'round, and then bitch about the immigrants who pick them for us...

Redstone

[wildhorses]

12. you are right, redstone

i will pay dearly for my tomatoes and i shouldn't complain...

i just love a good tomato freshly picked and still sun warmed from my garden and, i don't mind to pick them myself...

[u4ic]

13. I just get the ones on the vine

they taste better than the hothouse ones. They're pricier, though.

I'll often get Romas as well. :hi:

[Redstone]

14. The ones on the vine aren't half bad. Jeez, I'm not the only tomato addict around here,

am I?

Redstone

[u4ic]

15. Salads are half my diet

I've got to spruce them up somehow, y'know?

[Redstone]

17. And a salad without tomatoes is like, well, something I can't think of right now

because I'm awfully tired, but it's like something, that's for sure.

Good night, m'dear.

Redstone

[u4ic]

18. It's like a...

day without sunshine! (gawd, what commercial do I remember that from?)



G'night, Redstone! :hug:

[wildhorses]

19. i HAVE to have my tomatoes

so NO you are not the only addict in the room..

i have bought them on the vine and tried all of these er have mentioned in this thread but

NOTHING beats a homegrown tomato and you know it,,,,admit it!!