AEDM Day 2

I didn't get my studio clean yesterday.  Instead, I spent the afternoon trying to figure out Google Adwords.  I thought I'd try some new marketing plans for the shop.  So, no painting has happened yet.

I did manage to put up 5 quarts of these lacto fermented pickled tomatoes a la Myrnie.  I've already sent her several emails asking about the process; I'm about to send another.  I love trying new things like this, but then I worry so much about poisoning my husband!  I kind of like him and want to keep him around.

The beautiful yellows and greens in these jars are inspiring a painting in me.  I haven't touched my oil paints since before we moved in here two years ago.  They're likely dried up, but I have really been wanting to get them out.  I think these pickled tomatoes would make a lovely still life.  I love the way that bay leaf stands out against the tomatoes.  Looking at how the turmeric stained my counters, dish towel and my fingernails, I'm also thinking about painting with it!

I still have lots more green tomatoes to use up.  I have made a few jars of green tomato jalapeño jam, that I haven't tasted yet.  Last night I made spicy green tomato soup.  Ummm, yeah.  That one didn't do it for me.  Between the heat from the one very hot jalapeño I put in there and the natural pucker power of the green tomatoes, it was a bit much.  DH on the other hand was in heaven.  Pucker and spice - his favorite things!  (that's why he likes me so much!)

Do you have any other green tomato recipes that you like?

Here is a sneak peak at one other thing I've been working on today.  I'm putting together a new tutorial, but it's a secret, so I can't show you yet.  It's something I've wanted to do for a long long time;)

I'd better get back at it.  What creative things are you doing today?