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Well, hello again! I've been missing in action since last weekend. Sorry! At last, it's Friday and can try to post some recipes for you. The weather across the United States has been all over the place. While my girlfriend, in Rhode Island has been telling tales of miserable heat and humidity, and extreme weather changes to rain-- well, we folks on the Central Coast of California hadn't seen sun in weeks. Suddenly, we had a heat weave that hit triple digits for two days. My tomatoes were happy little campers!
Just the week before, I had all kinds of little green tomatoes...
...and the next time I looked, they were bursting with summer sunshine ripeness. I had to start using these fast!
Roasted tomatoes, are one of my…
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