Tomatoes

After a good morning of computing, playing tennis (the weather was wonderful this morning-unlike last Monday afternoon when a group of us nearly collapsed in the heat. I don't know what we were thinking!), and now answering e-mails and planning the next article that I want to edit and submit, it is time to think about lunch. And did I mention reading the newspapers? What to eat? Which bread- white is not good, needs to be wholewheat or my favourite dark rye. Cold cuts- ones don't have too many nitrates. The cheese should be low-fat. Cucumber, so far I have not heard too many negatives about it. Lettuce if it is green and leafy as opposed to ice berg lettuce should be good. Love that mayonnaise- but must be careful about the amount and again fat content. One more item, yup, you guessed it, some tomato slices. Since I have already eaten some of the tomato and I seem to be fine, I am not too worried but I do wonder what happened to these tomatoes that are making people in the United States ill. Where are these tomatoes coming from. I don't remember problems in the past or was it that we just did not connect illness with its direct cause?

Thank goodness, tomatoes are not hard to grow. When they are ripe enough and have lovely samples I will take some photos and post them.

One of my favourite parts of summer is toasted tomato sandwiches. Hopefully, I will have a bumper crop and not worry about what I am putting on my sandwich and in my salads.