Mortgage Lifter

Boron Elgar · 2011-08-24T17:28:35+00:00

So I planted some Mortgage Lifter tomatoes this year. The plants grewvery well, were most prolific in flowering, setting and ripening offruit. The only problem is that the tomatoes are not wonderful. They lookfabulous. They would make ideal magazine shots or state fair entries,but they are, at least to me, underweight for their size and have nodepth of flavor whatsoever. I have only two full size varieties growing this year (many cherry,pear, patios, etc, as they bear and ripen earlier here), the MLs andsome identified only as "heirloom tomato" on the labeling, that latterhaving been bought as a lark from a reduced rack at the local grocerystore. I wish I knew what the "heirloom tomato" really was as it has producedfruit that is everything that exemplifies a home grown tomato withindescribably delicious complexity of taste.It's fun gardening.Boron

Aug 24, 2011 44 Replies

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Priscilla H. Ballou 15 years ago

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

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Steve Peek 15 years ago

Cherry tomatoes make the very best juice. Have a bloody Mary made with cherry tomato juice, absolutely the best!

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songbird 15 years ago

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

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songbird 15 years ago

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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