Art, Cello and Vegetables

Benedicta's painting - Gladness.

Benedicta had to enter a painting in the Hudson Guild Art show to entice me to check out the weekly vegetable pick up. The gallery is a lovely room off the main lobby and the show included a multitude of talent. A special perk for the evening was the cellist in the lobby. Everyone weighed their tomatoes and picked their onions to the sound of folky-toe-tapping renditions by the visiting cellist.

That's four pounds of tomatoes.

Pick up your vegetables to the sound of the cello.

When you get four pounds of tomatoes for the week and have a small freezer, you have to make spaghetti sauce. So a-chopping I went. Threw everything - including mystery herbs from the plastic bags of dried herbs we've been collecting over the last several weeks from the share that I've neglected to label - in the pot and let it simmer down before whizzing it to a semi-smooth texture in the blendtec. The taste turned out much better than the color. Deliciouso!!

Started the marinara sauce off with sauteed onion, garlic scapes, and miscellaneous herbs I dried and didn't label.

Chop, chop, chop your tomatoes.

Add the tomatoes and simmer down.

The sauce was orange - not like bright red store bought.

Eggplant!