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    Ultimate poor mans summer supper! Does not get any better!

    Dad would call this the ultimate poor mans supper. We both ate this until we could not eat more, always had 15 to 20 mater plants in the garden. I do not eat them if they are not grown at home, hot house maters taste like ****!

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    5 whole tomatoes cut into chunks
    1/3 to 1/2 pound of cottage cheese, highest fat content you can find
    salt and pepper to taste.

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    I love my tomatoes too. I have a bacon and tomato sandwich for breakfast every day that I have my tomatoes. I just brought in 80 pounds that I picked. I will probably have them for 2 more weeks.
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    Ours usually come on the third week of August and first frost is Sept 10.
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    Store bought maters are complete garbage. Zero flavor.
    Unfortunatly mine are only the size of a thumb nail yet but I can hardly wait

    Matt that plate looks very tasty

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    OMG, I do that all the time and thought I was the only one because my friends and family all think I'm nuts. For a little extra protein I, sometimes, drain and crumble a can of tuna over this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dryball View Post
    OMG, I do that all the time and thought I was the only one because my friends and family all think I'm nuts. For a little extra protein I, sometimes, drain and crumble a can of tuna over this.
    I find this to be one of the most satisfying meals of my summer. I may go 4 or 5 days in a row with just this for supper. I eat way to many, I usually end up with canker sores in my mouth from all of the acid... but it is so worth it! Have not tried it with tuna, that does not sound bad. When green peppers are producing, I will sometimes chunk one up and throw in the mix as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MT Gianni View Post
    Ours usually come on the third week of August and first frost is Sept 10.
    I could not live like that! I am late with mine this year, has not been a good year for us. I normally plant mine buried under gallon milk jugs the first day we break 70 in the spring, normally have some by the second or third week of June.

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    I heard of tomatoes and feta cheese being pretty tasty. I think some fresh-ground black pepper and a dash of salt would dress it nicely. I never thought of the cottage cheese bit, but that makes sense to me. Maybe with a judicious helping of chopped scallions and a clove or two of crushed garlic. . . Yeah, with some hard salami or Cajun bacon diced in there and some dense whole-grain bread and a cider. . . Okay, gonna hafta pick this up again later when I can act on it.

    For those inevitable end-of-season green tomatoes which will never get ripe, they can readily be pickled. They're so acidic, they almost pickle themselves. Cut into quarters or so, fill the canning jar with them, pour in scalding water until all are covered, add a heaping tablespoon of salt and seal. No vinegar necessary, but it won't hurt anything, just makes them extra sour/tart. Let them cool, keep them in the fridge or a cool-room. In ten days to two weeks, they're ready. Crisp, crunchy and sour. Fine accompaniment to a meal.
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    Try shredding some hard cheese like a sharp Romano or even some parmasean on the cut up `maters.Robert

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    String Cheese might go well with that? Or Parmesan cheese

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    Anything from the garden is worthy of a kings meal. Since the peas, Little red potatoes, green beans are at their peak. That has been our super of choice now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kbstenberg View Post
    Anything from the garden is worthy of a kings meal.
    Agreed! I enjoy a hot lunch, so I bring in some tomatoes and peppers, chop them, and sauté in olive oil. When the tomatoes release liquid I add something. Sometimes it is frozen tamales, other times I'll melt cheese and pour the mixture over toast. There's just so much you can do with fresh tomatoes. Also, you can cut the top off, remove the center, stuff, and run under the broiler for a few minutes. Left-overs make excellent stuffing. For what may be the greatest stuffed tomato ever, fill with fresh crabmeat (great hot or cold).

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    Quote Originally Posted by mattw View Post
    Dad would call this the ultimate poor mans supper. We both ate this until we could not eat more, always had 15 to 20 mater plants in the garden. I do not eat them if they are not grown at home, hot house maters taste like ****!

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    5 whole tomatoes cut into chunks
    1/3 to 1/2 pound of cottage cheese, highest fat content you can find
    salt and pepper to taste.

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    Fresh sweet onions, mmmm good

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    Quote Originally Posted by MT Gianni View Post
    Ours usually come on the third week of August and first frost is Sept 10.
    Our season is so different ( Houston area ) We can set out started plants late February and maybe make it past the Easter cold spell. We start getting tomatoes pretty early and when the temperature gets like 90 degrees the plants quit blooming. Usually by July the tomatoes are done. And when it gets hot enough to wilt the leaves of the Jalapeno plants, the peppers get extra hot all the way around. A trick I learned was to slice the pepper in half and give my lunch buddies the half the sun shined on and eat the inside half. Got a reputation for eating very hot peppers and in reality not the case. Also the the gold colored vein is where the most heat is. Seems that you guys in Montana have a longer season than ours. Also my grandmother p ut sugar on her sliced tomatoes and the rest of us thought that to be strange indeed.

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    I picked the first few cherry tomatoes this week.
    I expect the larger tomatoes to kick in next week.
    the Okra is getting real close as well
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    I just picked my first three tomatoes off the season. BTL's tonight. I also just plucked my first harvest of sun sugar cherry tomatoes and ground cherries. Haven't grown ground cherries in 40 years. Man they are good but the bids have been tearing them up and ripping them open. I picked a bunch that the husks were turning yellow. I pulled the husks off and put them in a box by the window to see if they ripen.

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    Usually I only eat bacon in the summer. I save the joy of bacon for BLT&J sandwiches (J-jalapenos), w/ extra mayo, on toast, Dagwood style. Those sandwiches are the highlight of the summer!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mattw View Post
    Dad would call this the ultimate poor mans supper. We both ate this until we could not eat more, always had 15 to 20 mater plants in the garden. I do not eat them if they are not grown at home, hot house maters taste like ****!

    Recipe?
    5 whole tomatoes cut into chunks
    1/3 to 1/2 pound of cottage cheese, highest fat content you can find
    salt and pepper to taste.

    Click image for larger version. 

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    Ate that dish many times. My mators plants are coming strong now.. I also go with one of my all-time favorite. .boiled ham tomato and mayo.

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    I bought the cottage cheese today and a friend gave me more of his maters. Gonna be lunch tomorrow, if my wife doesn't find where i hid the c. cheese in the fridge.

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    Sounds great.

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