"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> "Mr Libido Incognito" > wrote
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>> Nancy Young wrote on 04 Jun 2006 in rec.food.cooking
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>>> Heh, I meant among commercial brands. I will try your recipe
>>> this week. Perhaps for those turkey sandwiches I might make?
>>> Thanks.
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>> Very nice on toasted turkey with tomato sanwhiches...(But only if you
>> like lime). Otherwise go the lemon or wine vinegar route. I think turkey
>> and lime are excellent together...Isn't it just about tomato time in NJ?
>> Barely in the ground up here.
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> Still early for tomatoes here, too. However, there are really good
> ones in the stores already, thank goodness. I happen to have one
> in my kitchen as we speak, though it won't make it until I make
> the turkey.
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> Do you get those stem tomatoes available at Costco? I forget the
> brand name, they are excellent. I have bought them elsewhere, too.
> They come in a plastic box. Small, but great tomato flavor and
> aroma.
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> nancy
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Yesterday I didn't have time (didn't want) to go to Costco. I bought
stemmed tomatoes at the local grocery - 5 for $5.20; there was a sale, and
they ended up being 5 for $2.50. As you know, stemmed tomatoes aren't very
large.
They ARE good.
However, I went to lunch at a old timer's diner and had a angus burger
(strictly against my morals -- tee hee), and it was delicious. They've
started doing something here in Virginia that I've seen them do in CT at a
hamburger joint that's been around for 60 years (or more?); and that is they
charge you for tomatoes $.70, onions, $.70, head lettuce $.70. At this
joint here in Virginia, they don't charge you, yet, but they do say,
lettuce, tomatoes and onion, at your request. I dare not have told her about
the charge in CT -- don't want to give them ideas.

Got off point: the point was that the tomatoes were fabulous, 2 nice juicy
big ripe slices matching the size of the burger.
Dee Dee