Heh! I can relate. I get a few berries while I'm doing my garden work, but not enough for a dish.... yet. The plants are expanding, and I hope to add the adjacent bed into the strawberry fields next year.
I got hoops and netting to put over them, but Irene came along just then, and I put off installing them.
Priscilla
I've been cooking with my extra cherry tomatoes (after giving several bags away to my team lead who has two young sons), but it hadn't dawned on me to make sauce and thus can them. Of course! How foolish of me.
One of my favorite ways to eat the extras is to cook a grass-fed beef patty in a heavy cast iron skillet, then, when the patty's cooked, take it out, turn up the heat in the skillet, and toss in freshly washed cherry tomatoes. Shake the pan as they sizzle and get a bit cooked, then pour/roll them onto the plate with the patty.
Also good with onion and mushroom put in first after a little EVOO, then add the cherry tomatoes last. Add a glop of guacamole or just slices of avocado to the plate with the patty and veggies, and you have a lovely rather low-carb supper that took about 15 minutes to prepare. My favorite kind.
Priscilla
Cherry tomatoes make the very best juice. Have a bloody Mary made with cherry tomato juice, absolutely the best!
Steve Peek wrote: ...
not sweet 100s, i did some juice from them last summer as a test and it was sweet but relatively tasteless otherwise.
we've added some to the tomato juice this year as we've had so many and it is a nice bit of added sweetness to the complexity of the beefsteaks.
songbird
i hope that helps. :)
i've really enjoyed my patch this season and now that i've started some everbearing plants i've eaten a few here or there all season. one plant just bloomed again so i might sneak one more berry in before the weather turns inhospitable.
my one patch is now expanding to three patches, so i can have more to put up. i eat too many and we give away enough to not have left me much this year to make jam with. so next year i hope to do a little better. and perhaps i'll try not to eat quite so many.
i still have to finish thinning the first patch out. one edge to go and that should give me more plants to continue the takeover of one of the bean patches. it will be a good use of the space for a few seasons.
songbird *oink*
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