Tomatoes and Octopus Salad

Here's another recipe with tomatoes. Cut up ripe tomatoes and marinate in your favorite salad dressing. It keeps for days in the fridge, so it's convenient to have around. It gets more flavorful over time.

Just imagine you are at the beach house...

Tomatoes and Octopus Salad

3 Tomatoes, cut in 1/6 segments
1/2 cup frozen octopus
2 Tbsp sliced black olives
1/4 cup red wine vinegar and olive oil dressing
1 clove garlic, chopped
Splash of lemon juice
1 Tbsp sake or white wine
1 Bay leaf
Handful fresh basil

In a medium sauce pan, boil water with sake or white wine with a bay leaf.  Cook frozen octopus for a few minutes. Drain. In a bowl, combine tomatoes, black olives, chopped basil, garlic, lemon juice, octopus and salad dressing and marinate for a couple of hours. It tastes even better the next day! Garnish with a fresh sprig of basil and serve.

Still lots more tomatoes to consume...

Conveniently comes in a bag.

The only red wine vinegar and oil dressing I use.
Love this dressing!

How about it with a glass of white wine and nice French bread?

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Curry Flavored Pickles with Okra, Eggplant and Green Tomato

The time has come to just consume the vegetables from garden like maniacs. Just eat them one after another without thinking because wasting is not an option!

Tangy spicy pickles

Curry Flavored Pickles with Okra, Eggplant and Green Tomato

3 small eggplants, sliced
1/2 cup cut okra
1 green tomato, cut in 1/8 segments
1/4 cup sushi vinegar
1/2 tsp curry powder
Just a drop of soy sauce or shirodashi broth sauce

In a Ziploc bag, combine all ingredients and try to let the air out of the bag as much as you can. Chill it in the fridge for over night. Serve chilled.

Sliced eggplants 

In a Ziploc everything goes.

Tada!

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Let's Cut Mr. Stripey

This is how it looks inside the Mr. Stripey tomato. It tasted sweet, almost fruit-like, and it didn't have that tomatoey tanginess. I really liked the flavor. Combine with other tomatoes that are tangier. Makes a great salad plate!

With Huskey Red Cherry tomatoes

The tomatoes have red edges around but mainly bright yellow inside. They are pretty on the plate by themselves. 

Mr. Stripey

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Happy 4th of July! New Earrings

There was a little chill in the air this morning. Turned out to be a great day. I made these earrings today and wore them all day. Happy 4th of July, y'all!

Iridescent glass beads and Swarovski crystals

You see red, blue and gold. Sparkly and so summer-like!

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