Not Quite The Farmers Daughter

Not Quite The Farmers Daughter

Monday, August 29, 2011

Crazy Crops and creative cooking

So I know most everyone has had challenges with their garden due to the crazy weather we all have been experiencing.  This year for some reason, I have battled my soil.  Yes, me and Mother Earth have not been able to strike a balance this year.  My normal overload of zucchini was a small crop with very few to share.  My cucumbers were prolific and I have pickle relish in four different varieties.  You might say, "hey that's really not that bad.", but let's discuss my tomatoes.  This is why I am "Not Quite The Farmer's Daughter".  New soil and lot's of early season rain left me with late planting and a huge amount of yellow tomatoes.  So me being the determined cook that I am, I refuse to not make pasta sauce, red, yellow or otherwise.  Now let's face it Gordon Ramsey would probably scream at me to get out of his kitchen, but I am not up for Hell's Kitchen or attempting Master Chef.  Paula Deen would probably embrace the yellow tomato challenge...afterall, everything is better butter!  So I went to work and created a wonderful pasta sauce, that smells like red marinara, tastes like red marinara, but yep, you guessed it, it's YELLOW!

Yesterday was the second round of yellow tomato harvest, however, I noticed that they are starting to turn a darker yellow now and I actually had a couple red tomatoes.  I have debated pouring vinegar water through the garden to try to up the acid in the soil, but have been a little chicken.  So I have continued forward on my yellow tomatoe adventure.  Yesterday as I was stirring this beautiful pumpkin orange sauce I started thinking about what I could do to kick it up a notch and make a play on the color.  I think it's time to experiment....pumpkin pasta sauce!!!!!  Mmmmmm! What wonderful sauce for roasted pork stuffed ravioli with a little sauteed sage on top.  Now the kicker.....will my family eat it or will it be too crazy of a creation?  What would you do?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love those yellow tomatoes!

Anonymous said...

I think it sounds wonderful and completely original! I would have done the same. I never thought of making yellow tomatoes into sauce, but I think I will now!

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