The pot of tomatoes that Walt cooked and ran through the food mill yesterday yielded six liters of thick red sauce, with the skins and seeds strained out. There are hundreds more tomatoes out in the garden, and they are gradually ripening. The weather is hot now, and predicted to stay hot for two or three more days.
Meanwhile, I cooked the batch of lemon squashes (courgettes rondes jaunes) that you might have seen in the photo I posted yesterday. They don't taste lemony, but they do look a little like lemons. Actually, we've now given up on keeping up with the summer squash out in the garden. We're officially overwhelmed.
To cook the round zukes, I just trimmed off the bottoms and the stem ends and put them on an oven pan (une lèchefrite) lined with parchment paper (papier de cuisson). I cooked them until they seemed tender all the way through. Now I can freeze them.
The cat just brought in another live mouse. Merde ! He took it into the kitchen and let it get away from him and run to hide under the stove. The temperature in the house this morning is 25ºC — that's close to 80ºF. I have all the windows open and two fans positioned to blow cooler air from outdoors into the house. Even outdoors the air is unusually warm. Temps are supposed to be in the 90s F this week.
No fried green tomatoes for you this year!!! A lot of work now but you're going to be having great sauces all through the winter! Bravo
ReplyDeleteOne thing I plan to make soon is mousska.
DeleteBertie! Enough with the mice! Aaaaaarrggh!
ReplyDeleteMice are fast little creatures. Bertie may have brought it in to lift Tasha's spirits lol. Does that lemon squash taste like zucchini or yellow squash?
ReplyDeleteIt tastes like yellow squash. I'm waiting for Walt to get up and check to see if the mouse is in the trap he set up yesterday. And I'm watching carefully to try to head Bertie off at the pass if he comes in with another mouse this morning. In this really warm weather the little rodents are very active early in the morning, I think.
DeleteYou can freeze fresh tomatoes to be used in the near future. Growing up fresh tomatoes were on the table for almost every meal in the summer months. What wasn't eaten was thrown in a freezer bag and put in the freezer. They were used for sauces and chili and such. My mother used to can tomato juice too. Here I sit longing for one fresh tomato for a BLT! Times have sure changed for me! Tomatoes are very good roasted and then frozen for sauces too. Roasting dehydrates them and concentrates the flavor and they freeze well. Your tomatoes are pure perfection! Gardening conditions there must be perfect for them. Don't get me started on the squash! LOL! Bottom line is I am envious of all your garden bounty!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the good ideas. I think I'll put some tomatoes in the dehydrator today, and Walt said he'll be making tomato paste this week. He picked a ton more tomatoes yesterday.
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