(Food-Beverage-News.Com, October 19, 2015 ) Taylor, MI -- October is National Tomato Month. October seems like an odd month to celebrate tomatoes as the harvest is over and the air is getting cold. June, July or August are more suitable months as that's when tomato season is in full swing and every day is a celebration with a fresh tomato right out of the garden.
Regardless of the celebratory month, tomatoes are the most popular vegetable grown by American gardeners and there are hundreds of varieties to choose from. Tomatoes are grouped by various characteristics. There are early, mid, and late-season maturing varieties. Dwarf, determinate, and indeterminate varieties refer to the growth and fruiting qualities of the plants. Dwarf and determinate varieties grow to a certain height and produce fruits all at once. Indeterminate plants keep growing and producing fruits until killed by weather, pests, or people.
But the tomato wasn't always considered a delicacy. When it first appeared in European gardens it was considered poisonous and grown only as an ornament. Today tomatoes are grown around the world for their luscious fruits. Tomatoes come in almost all colors of the rainbow, including black and white, and plants range in size from 8 inches to 10 feet tall.
Tomatoes not only taste great, but are healthy as well. They are loaded with vitamins A, C, and K and contain the cancer-fighting anti-oxidant lycopene. Plus, they are one of the easier vegetables to grow. Given sun and healthy soil they're almost guaranteed to produce fruit.
One way to celebrate National Tomato Month would be to make tomato sauce or tomato soup with the last fruits on the vine. Or add small tomatoes or sliced tomatoes to a lunch or dinner salad. Slicing or chopping tomatoes is easy with new flexible chopping mats that fold and roll so the cook can transfer the chopped pieces of tomato to a cooking pan, salad bowl or serving bowl without pieces falling onto the counter or stove top.
For example Grama's Kitchen sells a 2-Piece Set of Flexible Chopping Mats. The set, which contains one blue mat and one red mat, can purchased at a 35% discount from Amazon for a limited time but only while supplies last. Grama's Kitchen provides its customers a risk-free, no questions asked, satisfaction money-back guarantee.
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