tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489063201658597291.post5919532350948936782..comments2023-07-08T02:18:50.926-07:00Comments on Foreign Quang: Thursday Thoughts of a Twitterless Thinker--Friday EditionRandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16746936407430428943noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489063201658597291.post-41523163303138338712009-08-24T10:00:35.028-07:002009-08-24T10:00:35.028-07:00ekanela: What onion? There is no onion.ekanela: What onion? There is no onion.Randihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746936407430428943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489063201658597291.post-51743884935388235812009-08-24T09:41:04.586-07:002009-08-24T09:41:04.586-07:00Excuse me Miss Randi.. How would you like me to p...Excuse me Miss Randi.. How would you like me to prepare that onion for you? :)ekanelanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489063201658597291.post-10614022229178399912009-08-24T09:36:20.993-07:002009-08-24T09:36:20.993-07:00septembermom: In my humble opinion, the more summe...septembermom: In my humble opinion, the more summer activities we can take into fall, the better! That's reaaally stretching out the summer fun! Technically, it's not fall til the end of September anyway, so we may as well devote our weekends to family fun--little mini vacations between those first few school weeks.<br />Have fun with all your back to school shopping!Randihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746936407430428943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489063201658597291.post-1840059784456698392009-08-23T04:22:26.566-07:002009-08-23T04:22:26.566-07:00That's a nice looking tomato :) I will jump o...That's a nice looking tomato :) I will jump on a swing any chance I get. It's always fun:) The summer is flying by. I still have so much to do on my list. I guess I'll do some things in the fall. This last week will probably be devoted to school clothes and supply shopping. It will be crazy :)septembermomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01570525910483384484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489063201658597291.post-48156271311384216792009-08-22T10:16:26.813-07:002009-08-22T10:16:26.813-07:00Auntie M: Well written.
Unfortunately, I have ne...Auntie M: Well written. <br /><br />Unfortunately, I have never eaten an Iowa tomato fresh from the vine. Back then, I was one of those whose tomato had to be fridge-cold. Now, I know better. I have learned that the flavor is magnified when sun warmed. When I cut into a vine picked, still warm tomato, I salivate, just like Pavlov's dog, anticipating that first, juicy bite. My mom, ate tomatoes the way you described. <br /><br />Frost is right. Iowa's dirt smells rich enough to throw in a blender and make a smoothie. It's thick, coffee-dark, and loose. Utah soil is tan, rocky, and full of clay, making better houses than gardens. It is not uncommon in spring to drive through rural Utah and see a six foot pile of 1' in diameter rocks in the front of someone's yard, freshly dug from the "garden" area. Many a Utah homeowner uses those rocks to decoratively landscape his yard. In fact, I have a friend who built a wall 3' high down the length of his yard, from rocks culled from his garden area. <br /><br />It is the Iowa god-soil, that's for sure.Randihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746936407430428943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489063201658597291.post-76068601820379924992009-08-22T05:05:56.696-07:002009-08-22T05:05:56.696-07:00Randi: Iowa corn, yes, it has no competetion. And ...Randi: Iowa corn, yes, it has no competetion. And tomatoes, a class by themselves. There are people who claim they've eaten the tastiest tomatoes, but if they are not from Iowa those people are simply wrong. <br /><br />Here's how to eat an Iowa tomato. Go into the garden armed with a salt shaker, pluck a plump, ripe, still warm from the sun tomato, inhale its smell right at the point where it had clung to the vine, don't bother to wash it, <br />sprinkle it with salt, take a bite and let the juice run down your chin, take another bite and suck up some juice. You're tasting what must have been the forbidden fruit in Eden. <br /><br />New Englander Robert Frost <br />supposedly once looked at Iowa's thick, rich soil and said, "Sun, soil and rain come together in Iowa as in no other state. The soil looks good enough to eat without putting it through vegetables." <br /><br />Iowa tomatoes are the meat of good poetry. It's the soil, folks, it's the soil.Auntie M.noreply@blogger.com