Heirloom tomatoes, a local pear tree, and a local fig tree
I’ve written and recorded a bunch lately on the peaches and heirloom tomatoes I’ve been eating tons of lately because people don’t take them.
Here are those posts:
- Podcast episode: 834: Do Americans Know How to Prepare Food From Scratch?
- Blog post: When did you last prepare a full meal from scratch, not one packaged product?
- Blog post: More fresh juicy local peaches and heirloom tomatoes than I can handle, saved from waste by rich and poor alike
I took a picture of the tomatoes so people could see how some are bruised and the skin broken. Maybe many people would find them unacceptable. In the picture below, the one in the upper left is pretty bruised, but didn’t lose any flavor. The purple one in the middle showed the skin had had some problem, but it wasn’t bruised. I’m pretty sure it grew that way.
The peach in the bottom left is the one the old lady was going to throw away in the podcast episode. I had already eaten a couple or more before taking this picture.
Whatever the physical state of any, they all tasted great. I mostly blended them into gazpacho, which went beyond bruising them to liquefying them. Chewing them liquefies them too.
I can’t believe people decline these things. I mean, I can, I’m just saying the phrase rhetorically, but it’s a shame.
On another note, I wrote earlier this summer about foraging local juneberries, cherries, fruit, and other edible stuff. I found a pear tree near me. I don’t take the pears off the tree, but a recent time I passed I saw a pear on the ground, which seemed public and fair game so I took it.
It was delicious. Food tastes better when I cook or pick it myself.
Here’s a fig tree I found near me. It’s in a community garden. You have to look to see the figs. They aren’t ripe yet. I’ll ask the people in the garden if I can pick any and won’t if they say no. My sister has a few fig trees in Queens and usually spares a few.
I love foraging and eating foraged food!
Retry later