Martin Fisher

I love making tomato conserva, sausage and stock.

When you grow commodity crops, you've got to expect commodity prices. IMHO, Mr. Gerritsen needs a paradigm shift. Instead of playing the commodity game and investing in things that rust, rot and depreciate (the $200,000 tractor.) Mr. Gerritsen should seek to, as much as possible, only invest in things that reproduce and turn the suns energy into dollars while also developing markets selling directly where he sets a fair price for his products, but most of all, stop whining and blaming others!!! YOU must be the change you wish to see in this world!

Who knew? This is totally new news to me, I had no idea that some pizza shops make fresh mozz from Polly-O curds. The Polly-O plant is basically right here in my neighborhood, much of the milk from local dairies goes to Polly-O and Leprino. I've always made fresh mozz from good raw Jersey milk.

I add celery rib near the end of cooking to avoid the mushiness. I'm a big fan of celery flavor. Celery leaf flavor is fleeting, IMHO Have you considered lovage? It has a bold flavor, to me it tastes like celery and walnuts...I can't help thinking of Waldorf salad when I sample it straight up. LOL It's extremely easy to grow. I use it a lot.

I'm a big fan of halving a turkey, because I love to have turkey quite often. LOL. For Thanksgiving I typically traditionally roast one half and cure and smoke the other. I think it's clever to split them while still froze, I had to laugh though, somehow it brought back memories of years ago when our neighbor got drunk and sawed a frozen deer in half with a chainsaw!!! LOL BTW, Mr. dcarch I've taken your tomato trellis method and ran with it, I love it!!!!