Zinga's titbit: THE green tomatoes compote

Zinga is a friend of mine, a drear friend, one of those people that might set on fire the Louvre (abstain yourselves from doing that, please!) and you still wish to hang out with them. He is generous, smart, and kind, and an extremely good eater, that's why he is experimenting the tortoise-reverse...his belly never experiments the low tide! In Italy we would say a «buona forchetta», an idiomatic expression related to the talent of praising good food

Zinga introduced me to the magic world of mushrooms, no, not those mushrooms and we used to organize nice trips on the Apennines hunting for these taste saprophytes. Yet, the present post deals with another dainty that Zinga adores, no matter how big the jar of green tomatoes compote you present to him is like! The kind of tomatoes you need are the following:

San Marzano variety tomatoes 

(grow them yourself!)

Chop four 3-4 green tomatoes and 2-3 reds:

the Russian shape of the composition

is totally causal

(it should be around a kilo)

 How beautiful the cane sugar crystals are?

Add the juice of a squeezed lemon,

organic cane sugar (not less than 300 gr)

a dripping table spoon of honey.

Medium hob, medium flame, almost half an hour

according to density, and astonishing

result

The catimer meows:  «keep them down until 

they are cold and they shall

produce the vacuum effect»

(use sterilized cups & jars)

IT IS seriously EXCELLENT, 

especially ON TOP OF BREAD AN BUTTER 

OR WITH medium CHEESES

(I recommend it as a starter)

ps: Weitrose, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury, Tesco and ASDA offer some delightful caramelized onions, for instance: the principle is the same, but this preserve is home-made, it takes half an hour and impresses both self-palete and guests...and it can also be an original gift.