Tomatoes

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Tomatoes had no great significane to me when i was living in Malaysia.. all i remember is.. i love tomatoes in the fish curries my mom made.

But tomatoes in Turkey, i cannot live without.

Why the sudden change? Didnt i even vomitted from eating too much tomatoes when i first came to turkey? Didnt i have a certain phobia towards tomatoes?

Well.. people change… at least i did… my taste bud did…as i assimilate my life into the turkish culture, i have started to admire the value and taste of tomatoes…

Maybe it is because of the fact that tomatoes is a very important ingredient in the turkish cooking… and salad with tomatoes is basically a must (at least for me)..i dunno… but if i am to buy tomatoes, i will make sure that it is of the good quality ones…and definitely without the hormones….!!

As alinlai has discovered herself…. Tomatoes here can be really sweet… there r many types of tomatoes of course… cherry tomatoes r cute n wonderfully decorative in making salad of course..but i find myself more attacted to the big sweet ones in which when to take a bite….the sweetness and the goodness and the juices of the red tomatoes just feels like heaven…dont be fooled by the looks of the tomatoes from the outside (like the one in the Picture below).. some tomatoes may look so crooked… but the inside…..yum yum…so sweet! So satisfying!

but like i said, make sure the tomatoes r not with the hormones ones… how do u know they r with hormones… as Halil is fond of saying… just cut the tomatoes into half, if u see the part where the seeds should be… r quite empty…..it would suggest an addition of hormone for the plant’s growth… organic is always best :0)

One type of tomato..from Çanakkale..

Another type of tomatoes..this is usually much cheaper (it only comes out in summer) and is usually used for the production of tomato paste...


2 tomatoes side by side... see? the rounder one looks crooked isnt it?

wait till u see the inside....


The oval shap one (the one for making tomato paste)..it is quite meaty..the seeds part is full..suggesting that is is without any hormones..



Crooked at the outside..but a jewel in the inside...
The çanakkale tomatoes... see the middle part? it is soooo sweet and juicy and red! !



2 types of tomatoes (there r other types of course)



After looking at these tomatoes, arent u tempted enough?

I still owe a lot of people a visit to their blogs... so sori...
have just finished packing for another get away for the weekend... i suppose for the last time this summer...so this will be the last splash splash for us all in sapanca...



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