Those lovely hot acid burns from the tomatoes!!! Don't they just feel lovely! Until someone comes up with some sort of gizmo to do it for us - we will just have to suffer! We fool ourselves into thinking that the ice water helps!

The large pot that I used took up 2 burners on the stove it was so big. After that - it was smaller pots. Plus that gave me the advantage to make one pot with onions, peppers and seasonings! It was worth washing 4 pots instead of one!

I picked two tomatoes from the garden this morning. The first ones this year. I hope they taste good. There's nothing like garden fresh tomatoes. And cukes are just showing on the vines I planted last month.

Another idea is to dehydrate the tomatoes and they'll be dried veggies to snack on . There is a company called "Just Tomatoes" who sells them and i bet you could make them at home.

I have dried tomatoes - but it takes quite a while because of the water content.