Vegetarian breadspread

This vegetarian paste is very basic yet versatile at the same time.  Spread on bread for sandwiches, mix it with hummus as vegetable dip or as pesto for pasta with some rocket salad thrown in.  Instead of sunflower seeds, one may use almonds.  

Ingredients:

• 200 g sunflower seeds (or almonds)
• 1 bottle (200 g) sun dried tomatoes preserved in olive oil
• Fresh milled pepper and coarse seasalt
• Dried herbs of choice, eg. thyme, garlic powder

A reliable 'work horse'

Place sunflower seeds and dried tomatoes with oil and blend till a coarse paste.  Blend till smooth would be better but I didn't want to kill my old work horse.  Add more olive oil if necessary.

Season with salt, pepper and dried herbs.   

NOTE:
This bottled paste should have oil covering the entire top to prevent any growth of mold.  The oil works like a natural conservation shield. As dried herbs were used, this will have a minimum shelf life of 3 weeks (or longer) if kept in the refrigerator.

Tomatoes

Summer is coming to an end......too soon.  Nights are getting frosty so I had to bring the tomatoes in even though they are still green.  Guess family and friends will be getting gifts of GREEN TOMATO JAM  :-)

These were my salad the last 2 days

These became soup - tomato soup 

Should anyone be interested in the seeds of this variety of tomato, let me know.  
In german, they're called reisende tomaten.  Seems it is a very old breed and originated from Peru or Ecuador.  Genetically untouched. 

Filled Tomatoes

When I have lots of tomatoes, some old breads or cooked potatoes, here is what I usually do.