I decided to make a tomato based beef vegetable stew with my tomatoes today...and use the rest for tomato soup. I should have known better. It's been three days since I've slept. That basket is big..I had filled it three times with tomatoes. I layed them all by the sink and washed them and blanched them in boiling water. I pulled all the skins and had a small mess. I have no counters. I know, everyone says that, but, I literally have NO counters. I have a small antique table I use like a butcher block. I call it a bitcher block, it has no wheels. After I got all the sloppy slimy tomatoes peeled I was trying to put them back in the boiling water and cut them up as I dropped them in. I had a big old crockery bowl of the things balanced on the edge of the stove. Yep. I dropped them.*
Let me just say, I am never doing this tomato thing again unless I have one of those bib aprons farm women used to wear. They wore those for a reason. Anyway, the crock bowl slipped and knocked the big pot of boiling water off and I jumped back to avoid it and I knocked the bitcher block and spilled the rest of the 60 peeled and bleeding tomatoes all over the kitchen. I just stood there and looked at it, I couldn't even work up a good cuss word. Actually, I was relieved it was over. This stupid cooking experiment. My old bowl didn't break and I'm happy about that. Fuck the rest. I have tomato seeds in places you don't want to know about. I took a pic, but, it didn't come out. Why should I expect the camera to work today?
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I threw away my clothes. I had on a new white T-shirt, my usual hangin' at home uniform, but, those are usually a one shot deal for me anyhow. I tried scraping tomato seeds off my pants, but, got tired of it and tossed them. I didn't like them that much anyway. My underwear was stained red and it got thrown away. The only thing I could save was my flip flops and bra..I hosed them. I looked in the cabinet and saw I was out of paper towels, yay, so I used three old towels and threw them away and sponge mopped the rest. Threw the mop head out. It was all over, it got the stove and under the stove, one wall, the hot water heater, the trash can, even the vacuum cleaner that was sitting out. There are tomato seed inside the coffee pot and in the shower drain. I know I'll be finding stray ones for a month.
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Ironically, steak was cheaper than stew meat, so I could have a steak for dinner, but, I'd probably burn the house down. I'm having Banquet frozen lasagna instead. Ding. I feel bad for the poor perfect tomatoes, but, in cooking and gardening there are casualties. In a few days there will be a new crop and I'll try it again, but, not until I get my Ambian. I'm going to be retarded tomorrow too...fair warning. By Tuesday, I'll be back to being just loony. Today would have been a good day for the skunk to spray me. Tomato juice works for that, you know. But, she's too nice and just wants her Friskies. Maybe it's good for your skin..and hair...and hoo ha. From now on, at the end of the month, I am sticking to gluing things on other things. The worst that's happened is, I've glued my fingers together.
31 comments:
I spilled grape jam all over once. Down the cupboard doors, under the stove. Oh what a sticky mess that was.
Yuk. I stopped buying jelly becuse it gets all over. At least with jam you have a fighting chance.
maybe you should watch 'attack of the killer tomatoes'? :D
glad you weren't burned...what a mess!!
I'm sorry....really really I am.....,,,,,but
BAWHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm glad your bowl didn't break. I would just die if I broke mine.
I used to can. About a century ago. Had a just out of the pressure canner jar of carrots expolde. Carrots on every surface of kitchen and I got hurt too.
I looked into canning, but, it would be expensive to get started and I just don't use the stuff enough to do all that work. I freeze bags of tomatos to spike up the few winter dishes I make, that's good enough. Jars of canned stuff sure are pretty though. I like seeing them sitting in a kitchen.
I need to watch attack of the killer tomatos..I've never seen it.
Must have been a dropsy break something day. Bottle of Kahlua falls on the rug doesn't break. Then the bottle of Beef eater falls on it. Super Sticky mess!
Gee, what were you cooking? Heh.
One time, looking after two little kids and my son, they were 'eating' lunch and had their hands in alphagetti right up to the elbows - the first and last time I served that stuff - and clapped their hands full of pasta together and alphaguts went all over my dining room, walls and ceiling included. Little tiny drops of orange everywhere. That stuff is nuclear. I didn't think it would ever come out. I don't think it did in some places, I think it just wore away.
None of my tomatoes are red yet. I'm looking into green chili sauce or chow recipes. I sure hope you can sleep soon, dd. Glad you weren't hurt or burned and I'm glad your bowl didn't break.
Pat, that is the reason I don't even go near a kitchen.... :)
Pat... If that had happened to me I know what I would have said... "fuck this shit". That's pretty much my all time favorite expression and I seem to catch myself saying it more and more lately.
OH, LUCY. You splained that so good!!! You sound like me in the kitchen. Your description of the "event" was so good that I could literally see the look on your face. I've had times when curse words or even a string of them wasn't good enough for a given situation.
I wish you sleep, soon.
"I need to watch attack of the killer tomatos..I've never seen it."
I think you just lived it.
Last night I was cleaning and when I pulled out the garbage sack it broke all over my carpet. There were moldy grapes and old pasta with tomato sauce. I was scooping up pasta and getting the moldy sauce under my fingernails.
DON'T BY GARBAGE BAGS AT THE DOLLAR STORE.
I HATE broken garbage bags. That pisses me right off. I wasn't pissed off about the tomatos. I don't know why. I'm baking a pie. I can make pie in my sleep.
..I took a pic, but, it didn't come out..
yea, right. most likely the whole scenario never took place.
go fuck yourself anon 10:50...go fuck yourself with your mom's ghetto dildo (empty bottle of maddog)...
Why would anyone make up the fact that they ruined 6o perfect tomatos? If I was lying, I'd tell you how great it all came out, instead. You are weird. Go away.
And from now on, you're getting deleted.
Yeah, she faked it for something to blog about. What a maroon.
I'm glad you didn't burn yourself. That's the most important thing.
Oh man, that sounds like something that would happen to me. I'm sorry you had such a hard day, but your telling the story was so funny that I had to laugh.
Okay I know this sounds sanctimonious, but it occurred to me that you were trying to process too many at once and expected more than one person is capable of.
I rarely can but every time I do, I feel it's just not worth it while I'm doing it. Of course, months later I'm glad I did, but it's a LOT of work. So don't feel bad.Every jarful demands a lot from me.
I am glad to know crap like this doesn't only happen to me.
Spectacular story, though.
whoa DD!!! Talk about ruining perfectly good tomatoes!
I am glad your bowl did not break. I would have been more upset if that would have happened then the mess on the floor.
I am going to blanch tomatoes today and can some sauce and some salsa.
omg dd. That story was beyond hilarious.
those seeds & goo will be a bitch when they dry & get hard! The undetected little shits! Gawd what a lousy mess. I once decided to seed cherries. Oh yea, of course. Have you EVER dont that? I had buckets of them. The more I seeded, the more it seemd I had in my sink. I became delerious after many hours and just started packing cherries into Zip bags & passed them out to my "friends"...UNSEEDED cherries. Never again in my life. No wonder they make a machine that does this! Thats the worst. Sorry for your accident Pat. :(
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I get something like this happen about 3 times a year. You can't stop it happening & even if you had done things by the book it would have happened anyway. It's out of your control, you can only stand & watch it happen.
It was destined to happen. I look at it as natures way of giving me a kick up the ass cause I am taking myself too seriously or doing too much so the universe is telling sending a message. Only one thing to do, clean up & listen.
I agree, I have a tendancy to try and do too much at once. It's in my nature.
My MIL used to can cherries and I helped her once. She had this cool machine you screwed to the table like a vise and you dropped cherries in it and pushed a handle to pit them. It was surprisingly fast. Pretty fun, but, messy.
Bubble, good point.I think that way too.
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