It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato
I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.
George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.
I'd forgotten what an honest sandwich it is. For those of you not familiar, 'BLT' stands for 'bacon, lettuce, and tomato. ' A lot of people think the 'B' stands for 'bread,' and I can understand someone not wanting a lettuce and tomato sandwich. But, the bread is implied in the word 'sandwich. ' Anyway, it's an American original. Everyone should have a BLT as soon as they can.
I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.
When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.
The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.
The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.
His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.
Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.
Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.
An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.
Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like off the vine. They don't know where a cucumber comes from. And that really affects the way they view food. So a garden helps them really get their hands dirty, literally, and understand the whole process of where their food comes from. And I wanted them to see just how challenging and rewarding it is to grow your own food, so that they would better understand what our farmers are doing every single day across this country and have an appreciation for. . . that American tradition of growing our own food and feeding ourselves.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists "tomato" as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.
If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.
Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.
