I awoke, embarrassingly close to midday, feeling extremely Sunday’ish…….
No doubt because last night was, ( well of course it was, you can work it out for yourself, you’re not an idiot), Saturday, and, true to form, we had rather too much to eat, too much to drink and nowhere near enough sleep, (even with the lie-in).
Anyway, the upshot is, I am unable to pluck up enough vim, verve or vigour to venture forth into the big wide world to shoot anything for you Dear Reader….(Oh the shame, the shame).
But fear not!!
Luckily, only yesterday, a rather splendid Hispanic produce specialist type fellow furnished us with some positively biblical tomatoes, and, influenced by some amazingly good still life subjects by my BlogBuddy Jane at ‘The Art Card Press’ (link below), I thought I’d serve’em up…….Spanish grocer dude insisted they were ‘Solo para cocinar’, for cooking only…But I don’t know how I stopped myself taking a bite out of them before the shots were in the bag.
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west517
“Trying to escape the pizza oven…”
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And up until now they’ve made it…Tonight will be a different story.
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west517
Oh yummm.
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janemorley2014
Crumbs sh, I’m truly flattered! Many thanks for your compliment and the link! The tomatoes look luscious as any self-respecting tomato should, hope they taste good and that your vim and vigour return in due course… Happy Sunday evening 🙂
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And to you Madame de Morlais……
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tesid2014
they look like boot leather.hope they didn’t taste as tough
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Tanya….
You are like a damp flannel in the face…
Talk about coming down to earth with a bump!
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Emilio Pasquale
The outside of heirloom tomatoes rarely look as good as they taste. But these look darn good!
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Cheers Emilio, I wondered what they might be called…:-)
And…… I can now confirm that they taste even better than they look….Their skins were like shoe leather, but inside they were unbelievably soft and sweet.
GORGEOUS!!
westseventhfreelance
Mmmm…hope they tasted as lovely as they look-
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Heaven on a plate… 🙂
corneliaweberphotography
Biblical tomatoes, I love that version. Hope they tasted really holy!
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Clouds of angels fluttered around my ears while I chomped on them………
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V-Light
Nice tomatoes you got there 😉 And beautiful photos, they are like an old still life painting 😀 Although with painted tomatoes it would not be a great idea to ‘Solo para cocinar’…most likely you’ll end up ‘Solo para WCinar’ :p Hahahahaha…Sorry if i don’t make any sense…The 1/4 of my brain that was still functional with the campaign and all that…i think it’s now 0.5/4….Thank god it’s ending soon! 😀 81% by the way! Keeping the faith for that 100% 😀
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Even that tiny bit of brain that’s still functioning is enough for me……Perfect sense ! 🙂
100% is going to happen…I can feel it in my bones.
scillagrace
“Biblical”…not sure what that might imply, but they certainly are luminous! Now, if only there was a bit of basil nearby…
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Ah ha..Basil!
Your green fingered host has actually managed to get two varieties established in the rocky, parched area, laughingly called a garden…..
(In this instance we didn’t use it though…These red wonders were part of a curried goat with plums concoction……Deeeeeeeelish!
scillagrace
Sounds amazing! Hats off to your verdant digits, by the way!
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I’m very proud of my sproutings………
Didn’t think I’d get anything to grow.
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