Riding home from a friend's lake cabin around the 4th of July, MPR was having a fund raising drive. Garrison K. did a fake news story about how the national tomatoe board was breading guilt into tomatoes. It was the funniest bit I have ever heard him do, but it didn't convince me to donate.

A gorgeous view of Flathead river and some amazing crab salad from Tidyman's with hard roles.

Isn't tidyman's a type of paper towel?

Tidyman's is a northwestern grocery store.

There is only one receipe for which I am known -- a creamy thick country style tomato soup. Nobody has passed out from it yet, despite the lavishing of sweet butter, heavy cream, crushed garlic, sprinkles of thyme, garden fresh coarse chopped bright red tomatoes, cracked pepper, and tenderly sauteed onions. However, it is only a matter of time until the ecstasy of a bowl fresh from pot will require a rush to the hospital, where the triage nurse will write "comatose: tomatose overdose".

Goodly pas pomme d'amour: my parents have a fettuccini alfrado recipe they used to weed out weak hansons, starting with a similar base of sweet butter and heavy cream. that's actually how we lost my youngest brother, jack. however, my nurse wasn't nearly as clever as yours. she just looked at us and said "jack's dead." we never knew for sure if there was a coronary corrolary.

Caprese Salad:
Tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Where do you get the salad? When did you first get it? Is it a celebratory dish?

Ketchup comes in gallon bags and you attach a pour spout in it. (It's a commercial food thing.) The bag sits in a holder on the wall and makes it very easy to pour the ketchup into other bottles. I had just attached the spout to it and was walking it towards its holder, stupidly throwing it slightly up in the air as I went along. After one particularily hard throw (which was not necessary) the bag came back down and exploded in my hands. Ketchup is everywhere....on the floor, the walls, the ceiling, the kitchen island, the deep freeze, refrigator, shelves, stove, and of course - ME! At the precise moment the last drop of ketchup landed, our camp director Dave, walks into the kitchen......it was definitely interesting to explain why I just wasted $10 of ketchup.....

Why did the tomato turn red?

Because it saw the salad dressing.

I first had Caprese Salad when I was in Italy along the Amalfi Coast in the Winter of '97. A plate of sliced tomatoes and mozzarella was placed in front of me and it was gone in the blink of an eye. Mmmm! I had it just last week at Tucci Benucch at MOA. I highly recommend it!