If I don’t feel like cooking (which is embarrassingly often), I opt for a raw snack (read: eat something without doing a damn thing to it) like this luscious thing, sliced up and sprinkled with kosher salt, olive oil, vinegar.
Something else you might want to know, if the taste alone isn’t enough to sell you: Tomatoes are packed with vitamins C and A and loaded with all kinds of other goodies, including lycopene, an antioxidant that researchers believe may be linked with bone health.
Serious. Check out this particularly juicy bit of info from a non-profit site I recommend called World’s Healthiest Foods:
“A study was designed in which tomato and other dietary sources of lycopene were removed from the diets of postmenopausal women for a period of 4 weeks, to see what effect lycopene restriction would have on bone health. At the end of 4 weeks, women in the study started to show increased signs of oxidative stress in their bones and unwanted changes in their bone tissue. The study investigators concluded that removal of lycopene-containing foods (including tomatoes) from the diet was likely to put women at increased risk of osteoporosis.” (original article appears here)
This study was published in the Journal of Nutrition Health and Aging.
OK, folks, so get ’em while you can.
I love ugly tomatoes…for some reason I’m always picking out the odd looking produce at the farmers markets and they seem to taste the best. I’m actually roasting tomatoes tnite and I’m sure they’ll be even uglier but somehow more delicious.
Love your blog and so happy for you and your new, amazing career.
You are an inspiration to so many women.
Keep up the fabulous work.
ox