Suport for Afghani Women

Portrait of your's truly in green!

Well this was my portrait sent to the charity that is supporting and helping Afghani women in their difficult situations.
Rarely a day goes by with out the media putting up a report on another young woman or often teenager caught up in some frightening marriage or abusive story.
I am here in this backwater of Europe, and it frustrates me that I have such little clout or influence in what happens to others of my sex a few thousand miles away.
So I donned this green in support of those women and can only hope and pray that it will, with all the other thousands who have done it....men as well as women!... make a difference somehow, someday with somebody.

Tomatoes

                 
 The recent heat has suddenly brought on the ripening of the greenhouse
 tomatoes.

So now we think...what shall we do with the bright red  treasure this year?

Well the different types lend themselves to various dishes.
We oven dry quite a lot and store them in olive oil in the freezer...they don't keep as well as bought sun-dried in my experience.
We combine them with courgettes, garlic and onions to make oven roasted veg.
We stuff them with rice and herbs like Italian antipasti.
We eat them straight from the vine of course and make loads of tomato and cheese sandwiches to name just a few uses .
There's hardly anything nicer than entering a greenhouse full of tomato vines ripening.
The smell is one of those summer memories that I store up for winter months.

And if any of my lovely blogging friends have other suggestions for these fruits of the vine......
                             ....I would be ever-so-grateful!
       Thankyou.