Last week I was checking upon our tomatoes and I discovered a huge oil puddle in my closet.. Rats! the oil came from the jar we were keeping our tomatoes in. I took the jar out, opened it very carefully and that was very smart. It almost exploded, but not as bad as it could have been.

It looked like this:

So after I cleaned all up, and closed the lid again, I put it back in the closet, this time in a huge glass bowl. So if it was to overflow again, at least it would not get on my shelves again.

Today Dan_e and I checked the tomatoes again. It looked fine and it tastes soo yummeh!

I scooped out a bit to fill a 0.25 litre jar to give away as a birthday present for a friend we are going to visit tonight. We are going to make a cheese quiche with it tomorrow. We’ll keep you posted.

I also bought some yarn for my friend, as she is a knitter too. We went to De Afstap and I only bought yarn for her. I have a huge stash and I was very brave to not add more yarn to it. After that we walked through de 9 straatjes (the nine streets) and in one of the many awesome shops I found me a thread can. And some cute sheep in a games shop:

In the lid is a small hole you pull your yarn through. Then you knit, knit, knit and your thread never gets knotted. I love it The little sheep is just cute.

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You’ll need 3 kg tomatoes, cut in half and spoon out the seeds:

Put them on a baking tray, add cloves of garlic, flowered sea salt, and powdered sugar. Sprinkle with olive oil. Bake for 2 hours on 80 °C.

Take the trays out of the oven, flip the tomatoes over and put them back in the oven for another 2 hours.

Put the tomatoes and garlic in a jar (mine can containe 2 litres and its full to the brim) which can close air sealed, add fresh herbs like basil, rosemary, estragon, thym and fill the jar with warm olive oil untill all the tomatoes are covered with oil.

When all is cooled off, close the jar and wait 3 weeks. Yes… THREE weeks..

I found the recipe here, via Coté Passions. I was some puzzle, because neither Dan_e nor me speak very good French, and the translators are very erm.. let me say “funny” in times We will let you know in three weeks how it worked out

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