Something simple

I've been blogging a lot recently about preparing tomatoes for long-term storage, and this morning we have about 6 liters of tomato sauce bubbling away on the stove. But sometimes when nature and hard work give you bumper crops of tomatoes, zucchini, and eggplants, you just want to eat them fresh.

Besides tomato salads and caviar de courgettes (zucchini "caviar" as a dip), what about a kind of salsa fresca as a pasta sauce? Roughy chopped tomatoes, zucchini, and eggplant, just barely cooked with onion, herbs, and maybe a splash of white or rosé wine, to have with penne pasta...

This morning my project is to go cut some lacinato kale leaves and get them washed and trimmed for lunch. We'll have the kale blanched and then sautéed with garlic and spices, alongside a helping of pulled pork that I made a week or two ago and put in the freezer. The temperature this afternoon is supposed to approach 90ºF (30+ in ºC).