Mashed Tomatoes

It wasn’t that long ago that tomatoes were in sorry shape. Apologies were displayed in the supermarket. But with winter gone, bring on the better fruit! In honor of my easy but satisfying lunch and to balance out the hectic culmination of 5th grade test prep, here’s what I am eating this busy week, sprinkled with some fascinating facts about the beloved tomato.
Tomatoes are quite bad a**. They’re related to several poisonous plants. They got poisons flowing in their stem and leaves.

Like a lot of fruits, tomatoes are rumored to have aphrodisiacal powers. They’re called pommes d’amour (“love apples”) by zee French.

Tomatoes’ technical name means “wolf peach”. The love apple-wolf peach from the wrong side of the tracks with its poisonous relatives- – -sexy.

Lycopene is quite fascinating. It is so wonderful how we can eat all of these colorful free radicals and antioxidants like eating a treasure from the Earth. Fruits and veggies are sparkling jewels. [And dairy is spackle.] [And meat, a grey silly putty affixing to the intestinal wall.]