By Michael Nolan

Okay all you Tomato Casual folk, your cries of injustice have been heard.

I know I have been away for a while and for that I sincerely apologize. Life happens, that’s about all I can say.

In order to pay my penance for such a long departure, I hereby offer you what you have waited for.

I know I have kept you all in suspense for far too long with the empty promise of my personal fried green tomato recipe, but no longer!

Here, without further ado is my long awaited super special and uber secret recipe for the perennial southern favorite – fried green tomatoes.

Here’s what you need:

• 2 medium-sized green tomatoes
• ¼ cup all purpose flour Read the rest of this entry »
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By Kira Hamman

Tomato season may be drawing to a close, but that doesn’t mean we can’t immortalize our passion for tomatoes!

We at Tomato Casual have carefully selected some post-tomato season craft projects to keep you busy until seed-starting time.

Check it out:

• Not sure what to do with your tomato cages over the winter? Turn them into Christmas decorations! The DIY network shows you how to make a tomato cage into a Santa Claus statue. No kidding.

• Who better to create tomato-related crafts than Martha Stewart, the doyenne not only of crafting but also of gardening and cooking? Martha gives us a modern take on the ubiquitous tomato pincushion that all our grandmothers had. It gives new meaning to the concept of an heirloom.

• If you knit, or plan to learn, you can make a Read the rest of this entry »

By Kira Hamman

We’ve already discussed growing huge tomatoes here at Tomato Casual, but what about huge tomato plants?

Check out some of these:

Here’s a couple in Iowa who grew a 10-foot tomato plant using 8-foot homemade cages made of rebar and wire. Impressive!

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By Kira Hamman

We’ve mentioned the East Nashville Tomato Art Fest here before.

The celebration, held each August in East Nashville, Tennessee, touts the power of the tomato to bridge differences, a power organizers say it owes to its own blurry fruit/vegetable identity.

See the festivities for yourself: Read the rest of this entry »

By Vanessa Richins

The United Press International recently ran a story about a couple in Southern California who are very avid tomato growers.

They reported that Bill Anderson and his wife, Christine Griego had grown over 11,000 pounds of tomatoes in the past year, and was aiming to grow 15,000 pounds this year.

They were able to do all of this on a plot of land that is smaller than a quarter acre. The yard is almost exclusively tomato plants, with a few rose bushes and some trees thrown in.

Bill keeps very exacting Read the rest of this entry »

By Vanessa Richins

The Salmonella scare certainly hurt the tomato industry a lot as consumer trust fell and many places stopped carrying tomatoes.

The FDA ultimately discovered that other sources were really responsible for the Salmonella infections.

Now the growers are trying to win back customers and bring the tomato back to the level of popularity it used to enjoy.

The Florida Tomato Committee will be bringing the Florida Tomato Culinary Art Tour to 15 different cities throughout the Eastern United States. These cities are : Read the rest of this entry »