Menage à Trois Bingo

...and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes." -- John Denver, "Homegrown Tomatoes"

There's something amazing about eating home-grown summer tomatoes in December. They're not quite as nice as when picked ripe from the vine, because I picked them green two weeks ago the night before the first hard frost of the year, but considering that I only got a minimal number of ripe tomatoes in July, August, September or October, the overflowing basket of ripening tomatoes on the windowsill is pretty awesome. And eating them for lunch every day is even better. The trick is to be just patient enough for them to ripen completely, without allowing them to go on over into rotten. Most of the time I'm hitting it right.

lavendargrrl and I just ate the first tiny harvest from our garden. A handful of peas and one tiny tomato each! They were lovely.

I'd really been missing tomatoes. I don't know how many meals-out we ate this weekend, and nary a tomato to be found. I had no idea how much my little world would be darkened by the absence of juicy red tasty goodness.