A Summer Evening's Dinner

Isaac is away for a few days at his annual conference of choral directors, so I'm doing my best to enjoy this small island of solitude. I redeemed some of the day's laziness by mowing the lawn tonight, which I completed despite the late evening heat that was a little more enervating than I had imagined it would be. But, as compensation, I had planned a nice summer dinner for myself.

In an unusual bit of planning & preparing ahead, I hard cooked a dozen eggs last night so that this afternoon I could make one of my rare treats: egg salad. A week ago a friend of Isaac's sent us some organic tomatoes from his garden, so I cut those up into wedges and doused them with olive oil and some salt.

As we left the campground last week we stopped at a farm stand and bought a bunch of sweet corn and half a dozen peaches. We ate most of the corn on Monday night last, but there were two ears left over. The peaches, which fruit Isaac doesn't like, I've been enjoying all week long. They're ripe, fragrant, and juicy.

Egg salad, corn on the cob, tomato salad, and a peach, all of it fresh and tasty and brimming with the best of summer. Yumm.

Posted on August 10, 2007 at 21.36 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Food Stuff

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  1. Written by rightsaidfred
    on Tuesday, 14 August 2007 at 07.43
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    Come clean: is there a difference between "organic tomatoes", and …inorganic?

  2. Written by jns
    on Tuesday, 14 August 2007 at 11.24
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    There is: organic tomatoes are distinctly uglier than "inorganic" tomatoes. The fact that chemical pesticides (which, being made from petroleum products, strike me as both natural and organic, in the strictest sense of the word) is given as the excuse for the ugliness.

    As far as taste is concerned, I've never noticed a bit of difference. The real difference seems to be between tomatoes grown for flavor and those manufactured for distant supermarket shelves that are picked way too early to develop any real flavor at all. But, then, I don't think the "organic" crowd is so focused on the difference in taste as in a philosophical difference in attitude that, they might point out, certainly doesn't seem to suppress taste.

    Thus, this simple fact: these tomatoes were delivered to me with some pride as "organically grown" and they tasted quite good so I was happy to pass along the growers pride.

  3. Written by Jennifer
    on Saturday, 18 August 2007 at 03.36
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    You're making me very hungry, Uncle. Can I come and live with you? :)

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