Tomatoes

Advantages: love the smell and taste
Disadvantages: have to wait so long for them

...Tomatoes - lycopersicon esculentum Tomatoes are normally red and round shape fruits but as the market for them still grow there different varieties, callous and shapes. The first tomato came from Eastern Mexico and they first been grown by Aztecs. The tomatoes spared all over the world after Spain made their great discoveries of America. And from about 18th century tomatoes has been eaten nearly all over the world. In Brittan first tomato has been grown by John Gerard. As I was reading I find out that the biggest tomato tree is growing inside the Walt Disney Resort?s in Lake Buena Vista and this is the biggest single tomato plant in the world and produce 32000 tomatoes. Tomatoes are very good for you, they are high in nutrients and containing high level of vitamin and as we all know they are low in calories. One tomato can...

redeyes22 21.06.2009 · Read review
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grow your own tomatoes

Advantages: great to grow indoors
Disadvantages: dont like the cold

...Tomatoes are not realy a fruit you can grow in the open due to our cold british weather we need to grow our tomatoes in a greenhouse. I dont usually plant mine untill early may as the frost will definatley kill them. I use grow bags to grow the tomatoes in as they dont require a lot of soil as there roots are not too large but the plant itself does get to around 6 foot tall. I space 3 plants along my grow bag, one at each end and one in the middle. I have never attempted to grow a tomato plant from seed as i always buy mine from a garden center as a baby plant. As tomatoes are very heavy they tend to pull the plant over so i tie mine to the poles in my greenhouse to stop this happening with garden string. There is no mistaking when your tomatoes are ready to eat as they will be hanging off the plant, green to begin...

danniell 16.02.2009 · Read review
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Tomatoes? Sauce!

Advantages: Easy to grow, tasty and heavy cropping
Disadvantages: Prone to diseases, Requires heavy watering

...Tomatoes are one of the easiest of the vegetables to grow at home fom seed and they are most certainly one of my favourites. In our country, they are grown as annuals, and if grown in the tropics, then they are grown as short lived perennials. Indeterminate types of tomatoes (mid-size, non bushy) has a very long trailing main stem, which may grow to as long as 8 feet and has vigorous side shoots. The shorter (semi-determinate) and bush (determinate) types of tomato stop growing much sooner than other indeterminate types of tomatoe, and the stems on these end in a truss of fruits. You can also obtain some dwarf varieties, which will only grow to approx 9 inches wide and the same tall. From the many different types of tomatoes that are available, you can select for different colours. Tomatoes come in yellow, red, pink, orange or white...

SnowiestElf 04.01.2006 · Read review
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Tomato Tales.

Advantages: Don't need much space to grow some.
Disadvantages: Need lots of watering.

...First, some facts. Tomatoes are good food. They contain vitamin C, vitamin A, potassium and iron. They are packed with phytochemicals. What are phytochemicals? A very simple explanation is that our bodies can make use of them to help fight disease, including heart disease, cancers and viruses. Did you know that tomatoes are perennial plants? It's only in cooler climates, like ours, that we stop them growing. This ensures that what little fruit we do get will ripen during our short growing season. Tomatoes originated in South America and come from the same family as potatoes. You can graft a tomato plant onto a potato plant and harvest a crop from both. I was shown how to do this at school. It was confusing, as I'd also learnt that a tomato is a fruit and yet a potato is a vegetable. Or perhaps not. Potato seed comes from a fruit...

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Jarlsberg cheese

Advantages: A sweet,nutty Norwegian cheese
Disadvantages: none

...ourselves a large colourful mixed salad,a bunch of leaf salad,radicchio (red salad),tomatoes,corn and a few black olives,then add a tiny bit of extra virgin olive oil to toss and then season to your liking. Slice some Jarlsberg cheese with a paring knife so that its thinly cut,you will notice that as you slide the paring knife into the cheese you will be able to detect that `nutty` smell and the cheese will develop a slight `curl` . Then pop the cheese on the top of the salad and serve for supper with warm crusty bread,and a glass of chilled white wine or a cold beer..a great idea for a summers evening.. One ounce of Jarlsberg cheese has 106 calories and eight grams of fat. 250 grams costs around £2.09 In the supermarkets you can buy Jarlsberg slices too which cost £1.49 for 160 grams....

Sarahjh1 15.11.2008 · Read review
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Tomatoes, yum!

Advantages: Good for you, versatile.
Disadvantages: Go off quickly.

...dough for about 2 pizzas, split it into 4 sections and roll it out into big flat circles. Then, start cooking tinned tomatoes, Tabasco (if you like it spicy), mushrooms in a pan. When it's all cooked add basil, salt and pepper and spoon out a generous amount into the center of the bread circles. After it's all been shared out (don't worry if you don't use it all, you can use it for pasta sauce the next day!) fold up the circles anyway you like (I usually do it tortilla style with a slice of tomato to bridge the gap), and brush a little oil onto them. After about 10 minutes of being cooked at 200C, I take them out and sprinkle them with cheese and cook them for another 2-5 minutes. You really can do anything with tomatos. Use your imagination, because the best thing about tomatoes is that they're so cheap that if you mess up it won...

ellastar 29.08.2005 (06.09.2005) · Read review
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What Colour Are Your Tomatoes? Red, black yellow, purple, lemon?

Advantages: Lots of flavours, colours and varieties
Disadvantages: Hard to get seed for some kinds

...If you thought that all tomatoes were much the same in colour and shape, you'd be wrong. These are just a few of the more unusual varities which are sometimes know as heritage, or heirloom varieties. The Black Krim is an unusual tomato. This rare tomato has purple to black skin and reddish-black flesh. It is a large tomato with a slightly irregular surface. Most black tomatoes come from Russia and this one originates from the Island of Krim which is on the Black Sea. The lemon boy tomato is actually a pale lemon colour, not golden yellow. It is aromatic and has a slightly pinky tinge to its flesh. The skin feels soft and almost peachy and the ox heart is a heart shaped fruit as the name suggests and a lovely deep pink colour. A single fruit can weigh as much as one pound. There are few seeds in these tomatoes which makes them great...

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Squeaky Cheese

Advantages: Its great for dinner parties
Disadvantages: It's not cheap

...Halloumi cheese. I have to say that I had never heard of it until 5 years ago. I was introduced to it on a visit to see my Dad and his new overseas property in Cyprus. I remember him asking me if i had heard of it before and he told me it was a local delicacy a cheese that needed to be cooked! Well, that was certainly a first by me. To cook halloumi you heat a small amount of oil, and i would suggest you use olive oil, in a frying pan when the oil is ready you place slices of halloumi (approx 1/2 a centimeter thick) and fry gently until golden brown on both sides. This is great served with a tomato salad and tastes lovely, I would compare it to a mozzarella but halloumi actually has some taste to it. It squeaks when you eat it, my daughter loves it and still, 5 years later, calls it squeaky cheese. Halloumi is...

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Polenta Cheese Gratin

Advantages: A light tasy dish! And it's also vegetarian!
Disadvantages: None I can think of

...Now a staple part in an Italian's diet is cheese! Cheese is nearly always found somewhere in a dish and always served after a meal (or it is in my family!!). Cheese is just as important as meat and plays a vital role throughout the regions of Italy. The dish/ recipe I will be reviewing is also a vegetarian dish which is great and the main base of the dish is polenta. Polenta is made from boiled cornmeal and is incredibly popular throughout Europe. You can cook polenta in many ways and can vary from region to country. Ingredients:- Polenta:- 7 cups water 1 tablespoon salt 1-2/3 cups coarse-grained Italian yellow cornmeal An 8-10 cup bowl, preferably stainless steel Filling:- 1-1/2 cups grated Fontina cheese, divided 2 tablespoons butter 1-1/2 cups Traditional Tomato Sauce (pasata) 1 tablespoon finely chopped rosemary, divided Salt...

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Yummy pepper, tomato and cheese soup.

Advantages: Delcious, easy to make, warming and filling.
Disadvantages: None unless you don't like peppers or tomatoes.

...This is a recipe I came up with after having some really delicious soup at a motorway services. I paid about £3.50 for a cup of it and for that I can make an enormous pan full which will easily feed the 3 of us twice with some left over to freeze and it freezes really well. I have listed enough to feed four people generously. Ingredients: 6 red peppers 10 ripe tomatoes 250g mature cheddar cheese 3pts vegetable stock or 3pts water and a vegetable stock cube Salt and pepper 4tsp olive oil Small bunch of fresh basil or 2tsp dried basil Method: Boil a kettle full of water and dunk in the tomatoes. After a few seconds scoop them out being careful not to burn yourself and peel the skin off. It should peel off really easily; if it doesn't just pop them back in for a bit. Chop them roughly and remove the seeds if you want to...

donnabroom 17.10.2005 · Read review
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