Katchup

Well this morning was a first for me. It’s the first time my pictures appeared on the cover of the entertainment section of the newspaper. Yeah that’s me, furthest person on the right hand side, back in the days when I used to run power and lights for the film industry. The picture in the paper was a lot bigger…no really it was, I swear.

There is not much I miss about that kind of work. Mostly it’s a lot of heavy equipment, heavy cables, heavy distribution boxes, and unbelievable boredom followed by spurts of panic. But there are also days when the sun is out in the fall or spring and the shooting schedule is light. The kind of day when you look at every car that passes by, and think “poor bastards, having to work inside on a day like today” and for a brief moment you forget the fact that you still have 14 hours to work and that at the end of the night, you’ll have to pick up all that cable and put away all those lights and instead just think about how you must have one of the coolest jobs ever.

This past weekend the oldest boy and I made ketchup out of our garden tomatoes. I found the recipe on line and as I’m always looking for ways to process the unbelievable amount of tomatoes I produce every fall, thought it would be a perfect Saturday afternoon project for the two of us. We skinned, cored and food-milled a gallon of tomatoes, added sugar, vinegar, salt and spices and simmered the whole thing down to ketchup consistency over the course of the afternoon. If any of you out there are looking for things to do with your bumper crop this fall, click here cause this stuff is really very tasty. (Plus you’re left with only two small jars instead of all those tomatoes!)

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