Old Gates and Tomatoes from the Garden

 

When we explored those charming villages and small towns in Alsace (here and here), I noticed the many beautiful old gates. Doors or gates and windows are objects I love to photograph and of course I couldn't resist that urge with all this beauty right in front of me. I chose the ones that I liked the best for this post.

Not a gate, but a door and shutter next to each other was decidedly my favorite. I don't know what it is that I like so much about it. Maybe it was just how everybody walked past it without noticing this beauty.

Some gates were rather small...

... and some were even smaller.

This is my art for this week's TADD over at Rain. Now let's turn to the culinary delights.

I had planted my tomatoes - and other veggies - rather late this year, after we had come back from Germany. Therefore, my harvest started late as well. But now there are fresh tomatoes on the menu.

I made Pasta al Pomodoro. I found the recipe in the NYT Cooking section. It asks for a lot of tomatoes. The dish was good, but when I make it again I will spice it up since it was a bit plain. I think herbs would be wonderful in the sauce as well as more garlic. I served the dish with freshly grated parmiggiano.

If you are a NYT Cooking subscriber, you can find the recipe here. Very often you can't access the recipes without a subscription (it's hit and miss), so I also took a photo of the printed recipe. As you can see, in my kitchen some of the food always lands on the recipe.