Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Tomata or tomato, let's call the whole thing sauce...


Tonight is another pictorial of a bit of how we spent our day…TOMATOES OUT THE WAHZOO! And so I did take care of the partial over abundance of this ruby jewel, some call of the night shade variety, but in reality a very nice natural anti-inflammatory as proven in my constant blood work showing a very normal sedimentation rate, which is the one that tells whether you have inflammation or not. Jammed packed with vitamins and minerals and all other good for you things! “Scientifically, tomatoes are the fruit of tomato plants, according to Oxford Dictionaries. Because cooks use tomatoes to add an agreeable seasoned flavor to foods, rather than sweetness, tomatoes are considered to be vegetables. If fresh, ripe tomatoes are unavailable, it is preferable to use tomato puree, rather than canned tomatoes or tomato juice , as stated in Health-Care-Clinic.org. Puree contains more vitamins and minerals than either canned tomatoes or juice. Vitamin C One medium whole tomato contains about 16 mg, or 26 percent of your daily value, of vitamin C based on a 2,000-calorie diet, as reported by Fruits Nutrition Facts and Chart. Tomatoes can lose anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of their vitamin C if you cook them, according to Indiana Public Media. advertisement Sponsored Links Calculate Your Actual Age Take the RealAge Test and find out the actual age of your body. RealAge.com Vitamin A Tomatoes are classified as a good dietary source of vitamin A, according to Genetics.org. The vitamin A in tomatoes occurs as beta-carotene. One medium whole tomato contains about 1,025 international units, or IU, of vitamin A, or 20 percent of your daily value for vitamin A. Beta-carotene provides about 5 percent of the carotene found in tomatoes. Lycopene Lycopene is a carotenoid and an antioxidant. Antioxidants help protect you from developing cancer. Lycopene provides about 95 percent of the carotene in tomatoes. Lycopene gives tomatoes their red color and lowers your risk of heart disease and prostate cancer risk, says the University of Minnesota. When you cook tomatoes, their lycopene level greatly increases. Tomato sauce is a rich source of lycopene. Additional Vitamins and Minerals One fresh, medium-size tomato provides you with about 12 percent of your daily value for vitamin K and about 5 percent of your daily value for vitamin B6. It also provides smaller amounts of vitamin E and the B vitamins thiamine, niacin and folate. A fresh, medium-size tomato contains about 8 percent of your daily value for potassium and about 7 percent of your daily value for manganese. Tomatoes also offer you lesser amounts of copper, phosphorus and magnesium.” Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/352773-vitamins-and-minerals-you-can-get-from-tomatoes/ Basil from our herb garden. washed and ready to go! These are the sliced tomatoes for my freezed drying processing that is fresh basil from the garden too, extra virgin olive oil and apple cider vinegar and garlic has all been incorporated in the concoction. It is baked on low heat for hours and hours in your oven if you do not have a dehydrator, which I do not, but this works fine too. To speed up the process I play with the temps from 300, 350, 400, and finally down to 200 for the last couple of hours. The bowl alongside are the remainder of slicing tomatoes for salads and sandwiches. This sauce was made from scratch by dipping the tomatoes in boiling water then plunging them in an iced cold water bath for easy removal of their skins for the sauce that has fresh basil from our herb garden and onion and garlic and a bit of oregano with a dash of extra virgin olive oil,lemon juice and a bit of Stevia, mmm, mmm good now put safely away in the freezer for future use! The freezed dried ones will also be put into containers and or freezer bags. And I do believe that is it for today, consider yourselves schooled in what I do when I am not doing this, well not all of the time and of course these days Hubby’s the gardener when he used to not be, because that would have been me and of course he helped quite a bit when he used not help for these projects at all… He also painted a new wooden towel bar and matching toilet paper roll holder from Lowe's for my bathroom and installed them too, the fake brass set was looking well, fake…we bought the wood colored ones yesterday on our outing and he sprayed them white at my request to match my Victorian style bathroom and we also bought a new comforter/bedspread and shams in white Matelasse, actually that is with a coverlet from Bed, Bath and Beyond with that 20% discount, to make bed making as easy as pie for me and him too, lightweight and very pretty! On that note of much note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!

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