"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:28:11 -0500, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>>Agreed, shriveled/soft tomatoes are perfectly viable. Whatcha want to
>>bet she tossed them? This sort of harks back to the wasting food
>>thread. Heh.
>
> Veering slightly off-topic..
>
> I buy the little clamshell packages of grape tomatoes all the time,
> and never manage to use them all before they start to go wrinkly. So I
> use them for making my rough version of ratatouille. Cut the tomatoes
> in half and put them in a baking dish with some diced zucchini,
> peppers, onions, and maybe squash or sweet potato. Add a sprig of
> thyme, a pinch of salt, and a glug of olive oil. Into the oven at 350
> for about 40 minutes.
>
> It's pretty good as a side dish, and it's also tasty in frittata or on
> pizza.
>
> Doris

We eat a lot of salad so I often buy the huge clamshells but these were the
small ones. I guess I should have suspected something when I saw other
customers looking but not buying. I passed up the large clamshells because
those clearly had some old ones in there. This container looked fine when I
got it.

I suspect that I ordered from PCC on a bad day. They subbed a yellow squash
for the zucchini that I wanted and those tomatoes for the cherry. This
didn't work for me as I wanted a colorful stir fry. I wound up going to
another store for the zucchini. It may well be that they were not out of the
items that I ordered but they were not fresh.