Book Board Chat

Liz - my mother always put black pepper on her cantelope, and we called it musk melon sometimes, too! So of course, I use black pepper and some of my friends think I'm weird. My family is used to that! LOL

I absolutely LOVE cilantro and lime in my rice! And rosemary goes well on chicken and potatoes. Thinly sliced cucumbers soaked an hour or so in vinegar and used to make sandwiches with mayo was another of my mother's favorites that I adopted. From my father's side, we got bananas and mayo sandwiches, which seems to be common among French descendents, at least in the NE area. And the only place I've every seen Chow Mein Sandwiches is in a New Bedford, MA chinese restaurant. The noodles used are the flat crispy ones, which obviously are soggy once in the sauce and sandwich. Sounds weird, but very good.

For tomatoes, I love yellow pear tomatoes and almost any heirloom type. Big Boy was the one we grew the most as my father could sell them on his milk route. But we grew small/large pear type tomatoes of all colors, as well as the grape/cherry-style small ones. Fresh and WARM from the garden is my favorite way to eat them. This year, we had almost a dozen plants seed themselves from last year's garden, so it will be a surprise as to what we get. I transplanted them as we weeded the garden this spring and saved money by not needing to buy tomato plants.