Oh yeah, we've gotten those also - but they sell them unfrozen here. Those are great, too; especially when the garden is pumping out those super awesome tomatoes that are better than any store has, and the basil and other herbs are busting out and all fragrant!
We need goats so we can make our own cheese and stuff now!! We were literally going to get goats if we got this other house we considered on the other side of town that was on the side of a super big hill. The hill was super steep and terraced, and I figured having to mow that mess would be a bitch, while goats would just be perfectly at home on it. It had smushy spots on the floor and a few other weird creepy issues, so we got this place instead, and have already planted stuff we like on every inch of gardenable land and the rest is nice concrete... but maybe some of that concrete has to go so that we can grow MORE!
Homegrown tomatoes always taste so much better.
I kind of forgot, but the missus just reminded me this morning of that first year we lived here, we had an epic tomato crop; we jut had too many and were giving them away to neighbours! We made a huge batch of tomato bisque from scratch [and it's harder than I'd expected], which was DELICIOUS!
Now I remember saying we'd need to make this an annual tradition, but weird frost / mist killed those plants dead, and we've yet to grow others like them... until now [hopefully]! This year's batch of tomato plants are looking pretty damned good... I hope I'm not jynxing them here!
I guess the store tomatoes never get to ripen all the way on the vine before they're picked or something.
I've heard that they do something to the plant so all the tomato are ripe at the same time. This makes harvesting easier, but reduces flavor.
I'm not sure if this is true, but it makes sense.
That bisque sounds awesome!
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