tomato

I love tomatoes. I’m crazy about tomato. I’m maniac about tomatoes. I’m obsessive about tomatoes. Fresh tomatoes, tomatoes sauce, tomatoes ketchup, tomatoes in whatever form, I can’t live without tomatoes. I must have tomatoes every day.

There are variety types of tomatoes. The beefsteak are large tomatoes often used for sandwiches; plum tomatoes often used in tomatoes sauce and paste; cherry tomatoes (my favourite !) are small and round, often sweet tomatoes generally eaten whole in salad.

Italians eat a lot of tomatoes. Tomato sauce is now more recognizable Italian that the tricolor of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It is the lifeblood of the Italian food – some would even say of the Italians themselves. You can combines pasta with around fifty different sauces containing tomatoes.

The Italians I know never seems to go through real ‘down’. They always bubbly and jovial. May be there’s an enzyme in there that makes you perky. My guess is it’s to do with tomatoes.

Pomo d’oro is tomatoes in Italian literally means golden apple. Prof wrote that the enzyme in tomato is called lycopene. Lycopene gives a red colour to a tomato, and the beauty of it, it can suppresses the growth of cancer cell in human body. Lycopene also defends body from carcinogen contained from the ultraviolet ray of sunray.

The lycopene also actively working to generate the oxygen inside the body to reduce stress. Lycopene can generate happy hormone in your body. See, another reason why I love tomatoes.

Moreover the lycopene control the oxidation of bad cholesterol and prevents body from aging.
It also makes skin beautiful and have the whitening effect.
In Europe, there is a proverb “When the tomatoes reddens, the doctor becomes blue”.

Luckily I live in temperate country where tomatoes growth in abundant annually. We have a regular customer in our café whom I fondly called Sensei. He is headmaster of the Japanese Kindergarten in KL. Apart from running the kindergarten his hobby is gardening. I manage to persuade him to plant cherry tomatoes in his garden after promising him to look after his cat whenever his away. Often I will go to his garden nearby to help him water the plant. Oh ya, may be I can buy Sensei the basil plant so that he can plant it with the tomato for the tomato to grows sweet, as I read in the book somewhere that tomato and basil love each other and you can get benefit from both. Sometimes he will bring me the tomatoes and I often used the tomatoes to make my favourite Summer Vege Pasta. My original receipe using a lot of tomatoes.

I need to persuade little dragon to save on our salary so that we can go to Rome the capital of Italian Cuisine. Where we can have the Pizza Margherita. On top, there is sweet tomato sauce that foams up all bubbly and creamy when it melts the fresh buffalo mozzarella. Buon appetito !

Moreover, where every Leonardo, Michaeoangelo and Antonio call you "Bella"

(translation = beautiful) every time.

Dolce vita – the sweet life.