Tomatos and Peppers

Thanks to Jen and Des, we have tomatoes in abundance and we still have lots of basil in our herb garden, even though our cilantro and parsley succumbed to aphids (basil seems naturally resistant! Interesting.) So Insalata Caprese has become a favorite snack,yum!

I read on a food blog recently that Julia Child described caprese as shopping instead of cooking. She should have described it as delicious! Our plum tomatoes from our plant are the perfect size sliced with a piece of mozarella and basil, drizzled with olive oil and basalmic vinegar, and sprinkled with ground black peppercorns and sea salt. The green tomatos in this photo are German stripe tomatos from Jen and Des.

We got more tomatoes from Jen and Des that are all different colors and one from Lynda and the small red ones are from our plant. The tomato has got to be the most photogenic vegetable.

Our pepper plant is valiantly trying to produce a full sized pepper for us, despite the fact that it is barely the size of a pepper itself! It's a model of determination.

Is it ok to be slightly scared of the habenero plant? This baby can burn! Any recipes/tips to avoid habenero induced burning are more than welcome.