Be sure to keep your doors locked this time of year. Not because of a crime wave, but to keep the neighbors from sneaking bags of zucchini and tomatoes into your car\/back porch!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It w The library, of course, is here in your time of need. Here are some titles to help you cope with the Great Tomato Overload (you know, just in case the neighbors are on to you and are keeping their doors locked…)<\/p>\n Vegetable Dishes I Can’t Live Without<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Mollie Katzen<\/p>\n Tomatoes and Mozzerella<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by Hallie Harron The Tomato Festival Cookbook<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Lawrence Davis-Hollander<\/p>\n Perfect Vegetables<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Carl Tremblay<\/p>\n The Joy of Pickling<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Linda Ziedrich<\/p>\n Preserving for All Seasons<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Anne Gardon<\/p>\n The Classic Zucchini Cookbook<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Nancy Ralston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, the joke goes like this: Be sure to keep your doors locked this time of year. Not because of a crime wave, but to keep the neighbors from sneaking bags of zucchini and tomatoes into your car\/back porch! It wasn’t that long ago that we were in the depths[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[186,184,185],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-cookbooks","tag-tomatoes","tag-zucchini"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-cE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/tomatoes.jpg?ssl=1\" "\\"tomatoes\\"")
<\/a>asn’t that long ago that we were in the depths of icy winter and many of us had forgotten what a real, homegrown tomato tasted like (just that it wasn’t that pale red styrofoam substitute that you found at the grocery store) and now, just a few months later we’re drowning in tomatoes and overwhelmed by zucchini.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n