Turning the compost

Barbee · September 26, 2009

Today, I spent about an hour turning the compost and sorting out the ready from the not ready. Now I have one section of my compost area empty to start a new batch.

The finished compost is ready to spread on the tomato patch

A nice bowl of tomato soup for my lunch made with the last of the maters. Goodbye delicious friends

piegirl · September 26, 2009

Great looking compost set up Barbee. And great looking bowl of soup - would you share the recipe? Piegirl

Barbee · September 26, 2009

Oh gosh I'll try

I never use a recipe but what I did was cut up and squeeze out the water from about 10 big tomatoes (all colors) then threw them in a foil pan with a couple of sweet peppers, some onion powder or onions, garlic powder, dried oregano, and dried basil. **Drizzle it all with olive oil to coat everything.** Roasted it at 450 for about 2 hours, pick out the hunks of peppers/onions and then run the rest thru the mill.

Throw a half stick of butter in a big pot, add your tomato yummy, a scant teaspoon of baking soda, some milk.....um....about a quart or till it fills the pot up about 1/2 full, then heat that up on medium until it's nice and hot but not boiling. Mix up about a cup of milk and 3 heaping tablespoons of corn starch. Shake well or stir to mix. Pour that into the hot soup and stir until it thickens to your liking. If it gets too thick, add more milk to thin it out. We like it thick. Once it's as thick as you want, pour in a half jar to a jar of cheez whiz and let it melt. Salt and pepper to taste.

Now if you really want to make it extra sinful and good, increase the butter to a whole stick. replace that first quart of milk with half and half and pour in a small carton of whipping cream. Melts in your mouth!

piegirl · September 27, 2009

wow Barbee that sounds great. Think I will give it a try although not a lot of tommies left to play with! Tore out another two plants this afternoon. piegirl

Barbee · September 27, 2009

Piegirl, I edited my post to say that I drizzled the tomatoes/peppers, onions with olive oil before roasting. LoL, that's sort of an important thing I left out

And if you don't have enough tomatoes, you could probably sub some canned tomato sauce or canned tomatoes for the rest of the maters?

garnetmoth · October 1, 2009

ouch. sounds good and evil!

September 26, 2009	#1
Barbee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 1,818	Turning the compost Today, I spent about an hour turning the compost and sorting out the ready from the not ready. Now I have one section of my compost area empty to start a new batch. The finished compost is ready to spread on the tomato patch A nice bowl of tomato soup for my lunch made with the last of the maters. Goodbye delicious friends __________________ *Barbee*

September 26, 2009	#3
Barbee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 1,818	Oh gosh I'll try I never use a recipe but what I did was cut up and squeeze out the water from about 10 big tomatoes (all colors) then threw them in a foil pan with a couple of sweet peppers, some onion powder or onions, garlic powder, dried oregano, and dried basil. Drizzle it all with olive oil to coat everything. Roasted it at 450 for about 2 hours, pick out the hunks of peppers/onions and then run the rest thru the mill. Throw a half stick of butter in a big pot, add your tomato yummy, a scant teaspoon of baking soda, some milk.....um....about a quart or till it fills the pot up about 1/2 full, then heat that up on medium until it's nice and hot but not boiling. Mix up about a cup of milk and 3 heaping tablespoons of corn starch. Shake well or stir to mix. Pour that into the hot soup and stir until it thickens to your liking. If it gets too thick, add more milk to thin it out. We like it thick. Once it's as thick as you want, pour in a half jar to a jar of cheez whiz and let it melt. Salt and pepper to taste. Now if you really want to make it extra sinful and good, increase the butter to a whole stick. replace that first quart of milk with half and half and pour in a small carton of whipping cream. Melts in your mouth! __________________ *Barbee* Last edited by Barbee; September 27, 2009 at 08:07 AM. Reason: adding the drizzle!

September 27, 2009	#5
Barbee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 1,818	Piegirl, I edited my post to say that I drizzled the tomatoes/peppers, onions with olive oil before roasting. LoL, that's sort of an important thing I left out And if you don't have enough tomatoes, you could probably sub some canned tomato sauce or canned tomatoes for the rest of the maters? __________________ *Barbee*

September 26, 2009	#2
piegirl Tomatovillian™ Honoree Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 791	Great looking compost set up Barbee. And great looking bowl of soup - would you share the recipe? Piegirl

October 1, 2009	#6
garnetmoth Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: cincinnati, oh Posts: 492	ouch. sounds good and evil!