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Ripe Tomatoes
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Mama Mangia
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Have you checked the worm for fingerprints and DNA testing???
chubbyalaskagriz
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You folks CRACK me up!
K
KYHeirloomer
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On A Serious Note
Cathy, I'm really glad that mixed bag worked out for you. However there is one problem with it. Saving seed becomes problematical, as there may or may not be crosses.
But now that you've gotten your feet wet, so to speak, with heirlooms let's talk about it early enough next year so we can set you up with choices that make sense for you, and which you can then save seed from.
Cathy, I'm really glad that mixed bag worked out for you. However there is one problem with it. Saving seed becomes problematical, as there may or may not be crosses.
But now that you've gotten your feet wet, so to speak, with heirlooms let's talk about it early enough next year so we can set you up with choices that make sense for you, and which you can then save seed from.
Cook Chatty Cathy
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That sounds like a plan Brook, I was beginning to wonder about seed saving. And as you stated having gotten my feet wet I am leaning more towards the Brandywine tomatoes for next season! I like all of them but the size and flavor of the Brandywine can't be beat! There is a variety that the flesh stays green on and they are tasty-only drawback is knowing when they are ripe!
Cook Chatty Cathy
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K
KYHeirloomer
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You can grow more than one variety, Cathy. But you have to separate them by a minimal distance to assure seed purity. I'll explain all that to you when the time comes.
I used to joke that the two metaphysical questions of the 21st century are:
1. How do you know when sour cream is spoiled?
2. How do you know when a green-when-ripe tomato is ripe?
But the fact is, the green-when-ripe tomatoes (there are a number of them, actually, including Tom Wagner's famous Green Zebra) take on an amber haze when ripe. Sort of an underglaze. It's hard to describe, but you can't miss it when it happens.
It's like when standard tomatoes turn into that "ok, I'm ready to ripen" green. Nobody has ever adequately described that color change. But anybody who grows tomatoes knows exactly what it is.
I used to joke that the two metaphysical questions of the 21st century are:
1. How do you know when sour cream is spoiled?
2. How do you know when a green-when-ripe tomato is ripe?
But the fact is, the green-when-ripe tomatoes (there are a number of them, actually, including Tom Wagner's famous Green Zebra) take on an amber haze when ripe. Sort of an underglaze. It's hard to describe, but you can't miss it when it happens.
It's like when standard tomatoes turn into that "ok, I'm ready to ripen" green. Nobody has ever adequately described that color change. But anybody who grows tomatoes knows exactly what it is.
chubbyalaskagriz
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Funny, Brook... Y'know? I've known many folks who would say that sour cream never "sours" or that blue cheese can never be too blue... but let me tell you, when you work in commercial kitchens where if product isn't properly rotated, you soon learn that that is indeed wrong! Ha! I've seen sour cream that I swear was PINK it was SO past it's expiration date. And I've seen blue cheese so old it turned YELLOW as January Nose Blowin's! (Not Good! Yucko!)
K
KYHeirloomer
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I've had sour cream turn bad, Chubbs, but only once. It usually gets moldy long before any of those other indications appear.
I usually pay scant attention to expiration dates, because they are arbitrary at best. But when mold starts to appear on dairy products, you know it's past time to replace them.
Blue cheese doesn't hang around here long enough to turn. But I know it can happen. Did have a piece of Stilton that got lost in the back of the fridge, once, and you don't want to know what it looked like.
Any cheese can spoil, particularly if it's kept in plastic wrap or zipper bags. But it let's you know by a distinct color change (usually a yellowish--ocreish--tannish something) and, often, by a slimey surface.
I usually pay scant attention to expiration dates, because they are arbitrary at best. But when mold starts to appear on dairy products, you know it's past time to replace them.
Blue cheese doesn't hang around here long enough to turn. But I know it can happen. Did have a piece of Stilton that got lost in the back of the fridge, once, and you don't want to know what it looked like.
Any cheese can spoil, particularly if it's kept in plastic wrap or zipper bags. But it let's you know by a distinct color change (usually a yellowish--ocreish--tannish something) and, often, by a slimey surface.
Mama Mangia
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My deepest condolences to the worm family.
Mama Mangia
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BREAKING NEWS -
CNN, MSNBC.....................
Giant worms attacking chickens all over the country! (out of revenge) The source of the giant worms has been found! In a graveyard - in pieces - in soil from Three Mile Island Nuclear Waste. Since worms cannot talk - no one knew that the pieces were still alive!
Now they are mutating. And they are attacking our chicken population!
The price of chickens - if you can ever find any again - will be astronomical!
And when the chickens are all extinct - what will they feed on next?
No pesticides will kill them. The Orkin man is afraid of them. This is a global crisis! Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them????????????
(morning everyone...............)
CNN, MSNBC.....................
Giant worms attacking chickens all over the country! (out of revenge) The source of the giant worms has been found! In a graveyard - in pieces - in soil from Three Mile Island Nuclear Waste. Since worms cannot talk - no one knew that the pieces were still alive!
Now they are mutating. And they are attacking our chicken population!
The price of chickens - if you can ever find any again - will be astronomical!
And when the chickens are all extinct - what will they feed on next?
No pesticides will kill them. The Orkin man is afraid of them. This is a global crisis! Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them????????????
(morning everyone...............)
chubbyalaskagriz
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Back before my days of meat & potato work camps, at hotels and private clubs I often stocked 5# and 10# wheels of gorgonzola & stilton, and often staff would get into a new wheel before the old one was used completely up. I've seen many a remnant of over-ripe blues and let me tell you- they'd rival any corpse on "Bones" or "NCI Miami"! The worst I ever saw was a huge wedge of $15.00/lb. mango-ginger stilton that was only identifiable as such by it's lable- it had a pink and green BUFONT that kept any trace of original cheese well-hidden!
chubbyalaskagriz
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mornin', mama! hear that siren? it's the worm-ambew-lance!
Mama Mangia
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hey CAG - what's all these guys doing at my house with white coats on???
ain't exactly chefs coats! LOL
ain't exactly chefs coats! LOL
Cook Chatty Cathy
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Mama you been drinkin' last night or somethin'?
You're cracking me up here!
You're cracking me up here!
Mama Mangia
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Mama don't drink - never did and never will - naturally nuts! Gotta be to work as much as I did!
And I am in rare form today - full of **** and vinegar - so brace yourselves!
LOL
And I am in rare form today - full of **** and vinegar - so brace yourselves!
LOL
