It’s Perennial Love!

Today tomato week continues with a very special treat…a short film that celebrates our passion for tomatoes by featuring passion and tomatoes. Perennial Love is perhaps the first romantic melodrama with an all-botanical cast. There’s romance, drama, mystery…and plenty of lycopene. Tomatoes in love! We hope you enjoy it. But be forewarned…there was too much romance to fit into a single reel. So you’ll have to come back tomorrow to see the exciting, dramatic, and saucy conclusion!… more

Recipe: Summer Gazpacho that Kids Will Love

How do I know kids will love this cold soup? Well, the other day I made it as an experiment and served it for lunch. Eve had a friend over. The next week I saw her friend’s mom and she asked me for the recipe—her daughter told her she loved it!!!! That, to me, is the best compliment there is. And when I showed her the recipe (written in pencil in my little notebook) she was shocked, shocked I tell you, at how easy it is. That made me even happier because I see one of my goals in life as… more

Tags: tomatoes

Tomato Week: Easy Tomato Recipes & Tomato Plant Harvesting Tips

It’s tomato time.

Tomato plants in gardens around the country are lightening their loads, as their tasty treats ripen and eager gardeners pluck the fruit. Farmer’s markets are a sea of red, orange, yellow, and green globes of flavor, from the giant beefsteaks to tiny midget heirlooms. It’s a great time to be a tomato lover. Gardening gloves come off and chef’s aprons go on, as our focus shifts from how to grow them to how to eat them all!

In honor of the overflowing bunches, barrels… more

Sweet-and-Sour Tomato-Pepper Salad Recipe

This clean, quick, and easy recipe tastes just like my childhood summers to me. My mother used to make it, and I always loved it—even after I learned how she made it, which seemed just plain weird. I think it’s a Pennsylvania Dutch recipe. It’s so easy it will take you only five minutes to prepare. All you need are some garden-fresh tomatoes, green peppers, vinegar, sugar, and salt. If you don’t have the garden-fresh tomatoes, then, frankly, don’t bother.

Because the salad is so… more

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Orange Cream Float: The Taste of August

Remember when you were a kid and you got all hot and sweaty from running around outside, and you smelled like crushed grass, dirt, and salt, and you were so hungry, hot, and thirsty, and then you got an orange cream popsicle and you knew in your soul that summer was good? Remember that? I do.

The Float of the Month for August evokes that same childhood summer joy, and hits the spot on a hot summer day, night, or even morning if you dare. I use Izze sodas, but I wish the brand were organic…. more