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ToMAte, KaMAtis, Pomodoro,  ToMaYto, ToMaHto. Here's our 1st take, of many many yummy-more! 🍅  INCREDIBLE EDIBLE Ripe red, crisp, and juicy. Dress it up, salt-peppah, or'gano, rosemary, Olive oil, balsamic vinegar, T angy!  It chills in the fridge, you chill on the couch. Tick-tock easy-peasy. In a bit,  it's gobble-ready  🍅 If you get a kick out of sour vinegar, this  ensalada  is something to try. 🍅  Ingredients  3 ripe tomatoes rosemary vinegar olive oil 🍅 Steps slice the tomatoes to about 1/2 inch thick rounds. add a dash of salt and let it sit for a few minutes. drain the juice. Pretty sure a bunch of us grew up considering it one of the greens. But one fine day, my grade-school daughter corrected me -- it is apparently a FRUIT. Botany-wise, strictly speaking, it is a fruit. A botanical fruit would have at least one seed and grow from the flower of the plant . With this definition in mind, tomatoes are classified as fruit because...

Oh, to have studied  in a time, like my sister Ate J, when Spanish was required in Philippine colleges. Likely, the rigours of school would be compelling. Would I be fluent in this ~3rd language now? 😉   But then again, why not?  It's never too late to learn something new. Off to a good start via this simple Filipino treat - Pastillas, also known as Pastillas de Leche .  You can 'speak' your cake and eat it too!  👅 👅  Puede! In this post, the terms below are sprinkled here and there. Spot it? Sweet history:  " The concept of sweetening and transforming native ingredients like fruits or carabao milk into pill or tablet shapes, i.e. pastillas, was introduced by Spanish colonists 'perhaps, perhaps, perhaps sometime around the late 1800s'... "   Source:  Serious Eats    Pastillas can end any meal on a sweet note. After indulging, may be best to wash down the saccharine pills with cool water, IMO especially for the young uns. E...