Tomato Onslaught & Salsa

Remember when I talked about our tomato tree? It's now a tomato forest.

 A couple of days ago I went out and picked a big basket full of little red cherry tomatoes. Yesterday I picked another bowl full and I expect I'll get a bunch tomorrow.

Husband doesn't like little tomatoes so I've been trying to eat them all myself (not counting the three big containers we've given away so far), but there are really only so many tomatoes one girl can eat. Since none of our big tomatoes have ripened yet we've resorted to making cherry tomato salsa with cilantro and pepper from our garden.

Cherry Tomato Salsa
Handful or so of cherry tomatoes
Half of a sweet onion
Half of a garden salsa pepper or jalepeno
Handful of cilantro
Salt and pepper to taste
T sugar

You can cut it up by hand, of course, but we've been throwing everything in the food processor and blending it together then grabbing a bag of chips, some of my homemade guacamole and the salsa and watching back episodes of Mad Men.

Growin' Tomato Trees

See this tomato plant tree? I'm holding it up because it got too heavy and flopped over. See how it's taller than I am... even while two feet on the top are actually leaning over onto itself? Yeah, we are going to have a TON of tomatoes.

This weekend I plan to do nothing. Ok, so I actually plan to do a lot of things but none of them are vital and none of them require long trips or house guests or staying overnight anywhere, which will be a fabulous change from the last six weeks or so. Ahhhhhh, weekends.

Garden, part 1

The first pictures I remembered to take of our garden this year.

Since I took these photos about two weeks ago the tomato has turned a lovely shade of red and been eaten. The green pepper is sitting on the counter and we took a bag of zucchini to Husband's sister this weekend.

Yummy!