tomatoes

I don't know if it's appropriate to brag about your husband on a blog, but I'm just going to go for it...

So it's late summer here in South Africa, and summer vegetables are available. There's a pick-up truck that parks on our street and sells veggies and fruit from crates. We usually grab something as we walk by (buying it, of course) whether it's a bag of plums or onions or bell peppers. Once I bought what I thought was a cauliflower still wrapped in leaves, and it turned out to be a head of cabbage.

Recently, Hans decided he wanted to make salsa. We knew the truck was there (it's usually only around on weekends) and had seen they had tomatoes, bell peppers, chili peppers and onions. Perfect! So he went to buy the goods. However, since the small bags of tomatoes were gone, he came home with a 5kg box of tomatoes. That's about 10lbs. Which is a lot of tomatoes for two people.

But I'll tell you what... if Hans didn't use every last one of those tomatoes. I think we had to throw one out that went bad, but other than that, he was a crazy tomato machine. And when after two enormous batches of salsa there were still yet more tomatoes, he made spaghetti sauce, from scratch. Meaning from fresh tomatoes. He roasted them with garlic and olive oil and made them into a delicious veggie filled sauce. How many of you have made spaghetti sauce from scratch? I know I haven't. Who does that? My husband does.

So we've been enjoying the summer bounty of the Cape Peninsula farm lands. We hope you are enjoying the first signs of spring. Here's a few pics of Hans in action... just to prove my story. (I must admit, I'm excited to see that Hans may have gotten the Oines cooking gene. Thank you Coke!)