home grown
We planted 5 different kinds of tomatoes this year, and the first 2 to ripen are Celebrity and Better Boy. We bought those as seedlings from a local grower; they're a few weeks ahead of the plants I started from seed: Old Flame, Black Tula, and Sweet 100. The squash is from seeds I brought back from Tokyo. I'm going to try it in a pasta recipe I found in Barbara Kingsolver's new book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
I tried another recipe from that book this weekend and was sorely disappointed! It was for basil-blackberry crumble, and when you brave the thorns of a blackberry thicket, you really care about what you do with every precious berry. I suspected the recipe had too much butter and not enough flour & sugar, but I always try a recipe as written the first time, then tinker with it later. I should have trusted my instincts! The fruit was swimming in butter and was barely salvageable.
It's an excellent book, in general, so I'm hoping this is just a typo. I went to their website, but there's no place to post a question or comment. At any rate, if you decide to try the recipe, make your own topping and save yourself some heartache. Tonight I'll give that pasta recipe a try, because I think everyone deserves a second chance! I'll let you know how it turns out.
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