Kat Dancing

On Saturday, my landlord asked me if I knew many recipies with tomatoes in.

"A few," I said. "Dan doesn't like tomatoes much, so I'm limited by that. Why do you ask?"

"I went by the farmer's market today and they were offering a really good deal if you bought a crate."

At this point I should say that my landlord, while a nice guy, has the Deal Bug to a frightening degree. Witness the bag full of printer cartridges on the kitchen table, which may have been on sale but which don't, as far as we can tell, go with any printer he owns. Witness the insanely large collection of DVDs still in the wrappers. Witness the two four-foot tower speakers hooked up to the living room stereo. The other eight are currently living in the garage because, as Dan pointed out, if we hooked up all at once we would be in severe danger of having no windows, trees in the backyard, or neighbors who were speaking to us, although that last would be a nonproblem since even if they were speaking to us we wouldn't be able to hear them.

"I really don't think we can use up a crate of tomatoes," I said. "Have you already bought them?"

At that point he became vague and evasive and left rather hurriedly. I seached the house and was relieved to find no crates of tomatoes in the garage or basement, but alas, my original suspicions were correct; the tomatoes were on the doorstep yesterday morning. It appears they'd been living in the trunk of his car until now.

Dan has already announced that he's not eating anything with an unjustifiable amount of tomatoes in it, where by "unjustifiable" he means "any". I know from experience that my landlord will use maybe one or two. The final housemate doesn't cook. And I can't bear to leave them to rot.

*sigh* I suppose I remember how to can tomatoes....

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