By Tomato Queen

How to make a tomato glow: Okay, I’m not saying it’s right. I’m fairly sure this is what my pal Charlotte would call “sick and wrong.” But if you’d like to learn how to make a tomato glow in the dark, or just see a pretty cool instructional video showing you how to do so, gizmodo.com has a tutorial called Just not eating them.

All fear the Tomato Witch: with her efficient slicing power, the tomato witch will make quick work of slicing that unripe, mushy thing called a tomato available in the stores now that tomato season is over. Probably also useful for slicing copious amounts of cheese, but: do you really need one?
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By Tomato Queen

Trying for a little romance?

Looking for a sweet gift to a good friend or relative?

I love flowers, adore them, even; so please don’t get me wrong.

There’s no wrong occasion for flowers (Superbowl Sunday may be the exception). But for a change of pace, why not give the gift of a “bouquet” (or bowl, or basket) of heirloom tomatoes from your garden or farmer’s market?
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By Tomato Queen

Honestly, these are things I think I can live without.

But who am I to keep a kitchen gadget from someone’s eager hands?

Below are several seemingly useless tomato gadgets on the market; but depending on your needs, your mileage may vary:

Zyliss Tomato Peeler - Marketed as a soft peeler in the United States, this same product is marketed from several UK vendors as a “tomato peeler,” so perhaps this is considered more of a normative utensil on the other side of the pond. It seems a very tedious job to peel a raw tomato, when the skin plops right off after blanching, but blanching tomatoes isn’t necessarily for everyone. Read the rest of this entry »

By Amelia Tucker

Do you need the perfect print of cherry tomatoes for your hallway?

How about a large photo of unusually shaped tomatoes for over your living room mantle?

Here is just the site where you need to go in order to find that perfect tomato-themed picture.
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By Tomato Queen

If you, like me, are the type to wear your love of the tomato on your sleeve (or on a tattoo sleeve), you have a slew of style options to wear it loud, wear it proud.

Cafepress Tomato: How about an I love tomato Women’s Cap Sleeve T-Shirt from Caferress which has over 1500 designs for t-shirts, barbecue aprons, clocks and more that appeal to tomato-lovers and tomato-haters alike?

Really, these designs run the gamut from straightforward to sweet, potty-mouthed to prurient.

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