T wrote:
On 07/27/2016 04:20 AM, songbird wrote:
i can't eat
them

Oh that sucks! Do they hurt your digestion?

no, i grew up eating and cooking italian food
with plenty of tomatoes my whole life until i
turned 50 and then i started getting rashes.
eventually i narrowed it down to tomatoes
causing the problem.


We eat them like candy.

when i used to go out to pick i could eat
a few dozen and then come in and have a tomato
sandwich. one of my most favorite meals in
the winter is toast with butter and a jar of
home-made salsa on it. Ma's favorite is macaroni
and tomato juice (from home grown tomatoes). i
love it too, when first made with butter melted
on top... so having gone on tomato restriction
is changing my diet in a lot of ways. Ma also
has been having fun doing some of her dishes
without tomatoes or finding alternative versions.
spaghetti and meatballs, i rinse the meatballs
off. just not the same.

saying it sucks is an understatement. once
in a while i do eat tomatoes anyways and pay the
price.

this year i'm growing extra red peppers so i
can make stuff with red pepper sauce instead of
tomatoes.


I have brought in a bowl of
them to my wife, turned around, then turned back,
found an empty bowl, then found my wife displaying
two distinct emotions: guilt and absolute delight. Which,
of course, means I have to grow cherry tomatoes for the
rest of my life. She has that effect. I call it
the "whammy". She shows no sign of reform after 42 years.

Being Primal and all (drug free T2 Diabetic), the both
of us (she eats exactly what I eat to keep me from ever
being tempted) can taste the subtle sweets of things.
Store bought tomatoes are horrible! They even manage to
somehow screw up heirloom tomatoes.

yes, we don't usually add sugar, salt or pepper to
things we cook here. i am gradually lowering my own
sugar intake, but i still have a few things i do like
some sugar on. i know i'm making progress though
because i had Ma get some frosted corn flakes for a
recipe i wanted to try and determined that they were
too sweet to eat as cereal. i would have to mix them
with two to three times plain corn flakes to get the
level to more tolerable.


songbird