Comments on: The last hurrah

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 16:38:58 +0000

I took the tapenade and some gorgeous ripe tomatoes and a baguette to a dinner gathering last night and we all loved it. I used the bright green olives castlea….something and lots of basil from my garden. It was amazing – I drizzled the vinegrette all over and passed the tampanade and bread. The plate did not need to be washed!!! Thanks for the idea, we are all kinda burned on the capreese at this point. I’ll definitely make this dish again!

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:09:00 +0000

gosh, you make my life easy. i’m like a lazy baby bird, devouring the recipes you post. and i say that with no shame – i like not thinking about what to make. this was a great way to use a recent glut of tomatoes.

By: Molly

Molly — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:33:00 +0000

What a coincidence, Toni! I'll have to look up that recipe...Julie, I still hold out hope for that man of yours! Brandon was an olive hater too until just a few months ago. He's still picky - he likes picholines best, and Nicoise, but absolutely nothing oil-cured and wrinkly - but he's finally eating 'em. <>Phew<>! I've got my fingers crossed for G...I like the idea of that, jules - passing the tomato relay baton! Take it and go forth, lady.(Lauren, thank you for e-mailing me about the meatballs! I'm ridiculously late in replying to these comments, as you can see, so I'm glad you took the bull by the horns and dropped me an e-mail too. Hope those pine nuts are behaving now...)Thank you, Maryann! Hello to you too.Thank you, 11frogs! And I love the idea of your pesto party. I'll have to steal that one of these days...Tomatoes in fish sauce, Lynn? I can't quite imagine what it would taste like, but I'm game to give it a go! Thanks for the suggestion.Oooh, Misti, I'm jealous. Tomatoes from October to May? Too good to be true.I love that, logos mori! Scarpetta, is it? I'll have to remember that. (And roasted boar with leeks? Wow, wow, wow!)Emilie, have you tried slow-roasting those tomatoes of yours? It's a really good way to make use of lots of them at a time. < HREF="http://orangette.blogspot.com/2005/08/better-living-through-slow-roasting.html" REL="nofollow">Here's<> how I do it. Well, thank <>you<>, Thea! What a sweet thing to say.

By: Thea LaVigna

Thea LaVigna — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:42:00 +0000

Greetings from Colorado…your blog inspires me to cook more, you give us delicious, creative ideas -you write with the kind of wit that I like to carry into my kitchen. Thanks for all of it!

By: Emilie

Emilie — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:38:00 +0000

It sounds delicious. I like the concept very much. We grow tomatoes in our garden, and we have a ton of them. They’re sitting on our counters collecting gnats. Ew.

By: Logos Mori

Logos Mori — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:31:00 +0000

Delurking to say that my most favorite word that I learned while in Italy on my honeymoon was the word for mopping up “slurry” with bread — <>scarpetta<>. A wonderful waiter named Firenzo even showed us how to add to the slurry with extra olive oil and salt and pepper and enjoy every last bite. We didn’t have any room, but we weren’t going to let the juices of roasted boar and leeks go to waste!

By: misti

misti — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:36:00 +0000

Here in Florida tomato season is about to start up again. Our season is from around October to May and then it wanes in the heat and rains of the summer. I’ve been missing them all summer and am ready to get them back! Probably one of my favorite things to grow! And caprese salad…mmmmm!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:05:00 +0000

I do love tomatoes, but know the season is almost over….a favorite way of eating them is dipping ripe tomatoes in fish sauce…sounds weird but it is what I grew up doing (instead of salt)

By: 11frogs

11frogs — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:54:00 +0000

Absolutely agreed with the hurrah! We had a pesto party last week – each and every dish on the buffet contained pesto, just to get us appropriately sick of it before winter. It didn’t work, of course, and I have a year’s worth in the freezer. Great recipe, and what a beautiful wedding you had – congratulations!

By: Maryann

Maryann — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:02:00 +0000

What a wonderful site you have here! I wanted to stop by and give a hello 🙂It’s always the same every year with the tomatoes. They appear and you are in love. Then, the flood and you kinda get sick of them. Then they are gone and you miss them so much haha