Fresh Picked on Thanksgiving

What a neat addition to the Thanksgiving dinner- a fresh-picked tomato to share. Our friends moved their potted patio tomato plants inside at the end of the season and they are still producing fruit. So we walked over to the plant and picked the three ripe ones yesterday as we were ready to eat.

It was a reminder of some of what I have been reading in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. "Natural" food- i.e. not food produced in the industrial food complex- can be a real uplift to a meal. I am pondering the ideas in this book (which are also found in the other books I have been reading in the past year by Michael Pollan) and trying to figure out how to make a move in that direction. It is more difficult when one lives in the frozen tundra of Minnesota- and in an apartment that doesn't get full sun anytime. I have some time to look further into it before spring, but yesterday was a reminder of why I want to.