07 September 2017

Red bowl, yellow tomatoes

It's almost a shame not to eat all these yellow (golden) tomatoes raw, but there are just too many of them. I turned these into sauce yesterday. Three liters of it.


The next step will be to turn the yellow tomato sauce into concentré de tomates — tomato paste. To do that, you pour the sauce into a big lasagna pan to form a thin layer. You put the pan in the oven at low temperature and let the sauce cook and thicken until it becomes paste.


Hurricane Irma, according to this morning's forecasts, will most likely plow through the Miami area in Florida and then head up the Atlantic coast towards either Charleston SC or Cape Lookout NC. That's bad news for my home town. The destruction in places like the islands of St. Martin, St. Barts, Antigua, and Barbuda is pretty impressive (and depressive if I can coin a word) to see.

21 comments:

  1. And, yes, climate change is just a hoax. So says 45, who knows better and took the US out of the Paris accord. Let's hope his property, the so called Southern White House in Florida, will be completely destroyed. He is so rich!

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    1. Rush Limbaugh says the whole hurricane is fake news and a hoax. The media just want to get people to buy more batteries and bottles of water! Wonder if he owns property in Florida.

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    2. I feel just as you do, CHM. We can take some satisfaction in the fact that 45 owns a seafront villa (currently on the market of course) on St. Martin which took a direct hit yesterday. One down and...

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  2. Oddly I feel the need to see where the forecast path runs. Will it affect anyone I know via the net in the US? Well, maybe the family of one.

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  3. Hoping for safety for our loved ones and yours!
    Judy

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  4. I am in Jacksonville Florida .. I was told not to worry.
    I am worried.
    I woke up and wondered what was wrong then I remembered and had the first panic attack of the day.
    Go to the Drudge for photos and up to date news .. http://www.drudgereport.com/

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  5. mikes weather page is a good source....reliable in the past....spagetti models not looking good for NC

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  6. Hoping the storm winds down before it hits NC, better still hope it goes out to sea and stays there.

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  7. Irma is making me very nervous. We have had so much rain lately and with high winds that means there will be a lot of trees down. I am surrounded by them and I am very worried one could easily fall on my house. Right now my plans are to leave Sunday and stay with a friend that lives in Sneads Ferry. It could be worse there than here if it comes in around Cape Fear. Then Jose is tracking right behind it. All we can do is hunker down, hope for the best, and pray we are spared from a lot of damage!

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  8. http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=30.13514714162835&lon=-81.5498928679607

    An excellent weather site

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  9. In the US, I think the insurance companies will defacto recognize global warming by revising their rates for different areas and redrawing flood maps. They'll have to financially.

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    1. Except for the profits they make, the insurance companies impose a sort of socialism and solidarity on the population. Everybody has to pay for everybody else. Rates always go up, don't they?

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  10. Ken, Here's a more recent update from my friend who writes for PopSci.
    http://www.popsci.com/hurricane-irma-thursday-florida
    It looks as if this thing may veer to the east coast of Florida, then Savannah, then inland to SC and Tennessee. If that holds, your mother could get wet but not too much worse. Meanwhile, I worry about friends in south Florida.
    I am hopeful that cooling temps may drain some of the power from the storm.

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  11. My thoughts are will all who are in the path or have friends and family in the path of Irma. A most stressful time!

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