What a difference a couple full days of sun makes! Our tomatoes have grown above their cages and all four of the plants have green tomatoes on them. We tried a different tactic this year- we planted less tomatoes in hopes of having a higher yield per plant. Last year they were a little crammed together and we think that we didn’t get as much out of each plant as we could have. We chose to plant one each of Early Girl, Jet Star, Sweet Chelsea and Super Sweet 100 varieties. If we continue to receive some more sun, we may have some tomatoes by the end of the month.
-Josh
One of the by-products of the larger dinners that we do is that we have all these little bits of leftovers floating around in the refrigerator…which can easily turn into multiple meals for the following week…add some greens from Friday’s market and all those tomato, radish and beet pieces can build a pretty substantial salad…
All this abnormally cold and dreary weather we’ve been having lately hasn’t been super beneficial to doing much outside, but it has motivated me to try a few things in the kitchen- one of them being a quiche. I settled on trying to make one from Thomas Keller’s Bouchon cookbook…it ended up taking multiple days to make, but it was well worth it. I sort of botched the crust by not using pie weights, so it shrunk and sank into the pan a little more than desired so we ended up with a 1″ thick model instead of a 2″…I used eggs and spinach from right here in Rhode Island to make it as local as possible. Seeing that this was our first go-around, I don’t think it ended up too shabby!
