Since most of the Western Hemisphere is in tomato season and our northern cousins are just mere weeks away I thought it would be a good idea to review the rules of Tomato Club.
Welcome to Tomato Club!
The First Rule of Tomato Club is: We don’t refrigerate tomatoes.
The Second Rule of Tomato Club is: We don’t refrigerate tomatoes.
The Third Rule of Tomato Club is: When a tomato gets ripe we pick it.
The Fourth Rule to Tomato Club is: We share our tomato bounty with our friends.
The Fifth Rule of Tomato Club is: Eat one tomato at a time — our mouths are only so big.
The Sixth Rule of Tomato Club is: No condiments, no problem. Tomatoes are best enjoyed naked. By that we mean the tomatoes should be naked, not you. But then again, what happens in Tomato Club stays in Tomato Club…
The Seventh Rule of Tomato Club is: We will harvest tomatoes until the plant dies. No tomatoes go to waste.
The Eighth Rule of Tomato Club is: If this is your first year you must eat your first tomato within 10 seconds of picking it.
We see a lot of tomatoes in refrigerators, so that means a lot of you are violating the first two rules!
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Woot! Completely agree on refrigeration – kills all flavor. And texture. And aroma. Cannot WAIT for tomatoes. I’ve already got co-workers getting dibs on BLT’s….
BLT — doesn’t get much better than that!
Amendment to the 7th Rule…. We will harvest until the night before the first expected hard freeze. At that point we will pull up the plant and take it all indoors, strip all the green tomatoes off, and keep them in layers in buckets or boxes in a darkened room until they slowly slowly ripen…. allowing for some green tomoto recipes along the way also
That works too!