Astons Specialities had this Farmers Beef Stew (S$14.80) on the menu so I decide to give it a try. Came with mashed potato and a side dish which I opted for a house salad. The beef was fork tender and the gravy robust which goes well with the creamy mashed potato. And oh, mum wasn’t hungry so she just watches me eat. :D
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自家栽培小松菜とミニトマトのあっさりスープ。
Soup with Home-Grown Komatsuna Vegetable & Cherry Tomatoes - January 2024
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[image id: various produce, mostly tomatoes, spread over a grainy countertop. The produce is mostly grouped by variety. Only the lemon cucumbers are in a bowl. End image id]
Haven’t posted any harvest photos yet this year because I don’t usually arrange them very nicely, but I put a bit more effort into this one from a few days ago. My favorite tomato of all time is the freaky yellow pear that looks like four grown together.
Varieties pictured (top to bottom, left to right)
Tomatoes- Black Beauty, Yellow Pear, Black Cherry, Pork Chop, German Johnson, Sungold
Beans- unknown variety of long bean
Eggplant- Millionaire, Japanese (by the bowl)
Cucumber- Armenian, Lemon (bowl)
Summer Squash- Zephyr, Zucchini
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Two of Israel’s most famous inventions are the commercialized cherry tomato and drip irrigation, so it makes perfect sense that another tomato/water innovation would arise here.
This time around, scientists developed tomatoes that are not only drought-tolerant, but whose yield actually increases in extreme weather conditions.
In a study recently published in the journal PNAS, researchers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem crossbred two types of tomato species – a wild tomato from the deserts of western Peru and the cultivated tomato – with the aim of identifying which regions of the genome affect agricultural traits such as yields.
In the course of their research, which included DNA sequencing and data analysis of 1,400 plants, they identified interactions between two regions of the tomato genome that lead to increased yield. The new tomatoes are prolific despite consuming less water.
“Studies of complex traits in plants, such as yield and resistance to drought conditions, have been based on significantly smaller populations of around 200 species,” explains doctoral student Shai Torgeman, who conducted the research with Prof. Dani Zamir.
“This makes it impossible to identify all the interactions (epistasis) between the genes, as well as their influence on important agricultural traits,” Torgeman said.
“In this study, we genetically crossed two different species of tomato, and proved that by use of larger population and a genetic map that includes thousands of markers, it is possible to identify areas in the genome that have interaction between them that increases the yield.”
Now, the new varieties are being cultivated with the aim of commercializing them on the food market.
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🍅 Garden Tomato Marinara 🍅
Been saving all the tomatoes from the garden and I NEEDED to make something out of them before we leave town! Here's a sauce I made to go w/ our protein farfalle tn!
Here's what I did:
🍅 2 quarts of cherry tomatoes
🍅 6 plum tomatoes
🍅 1/2 chopped onion
🍅 olive oil
🍅 6 cloves of garlic
🍅 tsp rosemary leaves
🍅 dried basil/parsley as a garnish
& used an immersion blender!!!
I dished this up with farfalle & cannellini beans!
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焼き鳥(頂きものの冷凍食品)、茹でインゲンの自家製マヨネーズ添え、ミニトマトとめかぶのサラダ。
Yakitori Dinner - May 2023
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