Exercise and well being during chemo and radiation

Little blue - I envy you the snow. I don't think we'll ever see rain again. With the heat AND the smoke even a trip to the market was a literal pain.

Katy, those two are so cute together. I love watching TF grow. Glad you're catching up on your tennis.

No aerobic exercise today but racked up >10k steps nonetheless. Did some PT upper body work and a modicum of housework, too.

Oh man I love snowboarding down in Jackson. It's a fun town, and such beautiful mountains. What ranch do you get your meat from? Weirdly enough, it's hard to find free range, organic, non hormone meat in stores here. So, we eat a lot of venison and elk. Glacier is wonderful! It's unfortunate so much of it is on fire right now, but I guess it was just it's time.

Tomato pie recipe I got from Hopeful

Littleblue- I got the above from Hopeful! I am hoarding my big tomatoes to try it this week.

Other than that, at this time of year I eat A LOT of fresh tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, a good crusty bread, and good olive oil- plus the most expensive, highest quality balsamic I can afford. I can't afford it really, but there's only a couple of months a year when I can enjoy this meal. It smells and tastes so fresh and healthy it makes me feel ALIVE!!!!

I just learned there is a butcher about 8 miles from me who raises his own beef, all grass fed, finished with some grain I think, but I'm told no antibiotics, no slime etc. One of my therapy dog friends starting going there because he sells fresh dog bones and she started looking around and asking questions. She even recommends his ground beef, says it's really nice and she won't buy ground beef from any market. My point is there might be small producers or local butchers that might do things right. They are hard to find though. I'd driven by his small, inconspicuous store 25 times and never noticed it!

Here is is: (I double the topping and I don't put the full thyme amount on because thyme is very strong).

http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/gratineed-tomatoes-asiago-fresh-herbs.aspx

last week I indulged in my once a year heaping helping of fried green tomatoes. I could eat them every day I kid you not. My other fresh summer tomato addictions are homemade Pico, gazpacho, bruschetta topping and a tomato tart which is similar to the recipe Katy posted but is mostly parm and ricotta with a puff pastry crust.

I have an heirloom tomato that my mom saved each summer for over 25 years. After she passed I found her envelope of seeds for the next year and brought them from Indiana to Oregon and I've been keeping them going here for about 8 years. She called them "beefheart" and they are a beautiful heart shaped tomato that can weigh up to 2 pounds in the Midwest, only get up to about a pound out here. Anyway, one of the only perks to this hot Oregon summer has been that these tomatoes are doing great. I'm trying to keep mom's heirloom strain going so if any of you would like to grow some of these next year( they are truly amazing) pm me and ill get some seeds to you around the end of September. If you are in the Midwest you'll be in for a treat with these!! I have some pics of them on my phone ill post later. (My inner gardening nerd is showing. Oops!)

Can I join in the tomato porn conversation? I'm reading this and drooling as we speak! And I am absolutely going to make a tomato pie or tart for supper. We have fresh corn on the cob to go with. I'll save the gratin for later in the week; it looks absolutely delicious. Sloth, I wish I could ask you for seeds, but we are in a NYC apartment, so cherry tomatoes on the fire escape are about my limit. But I do have four plants and am waging an eternal war with the squirrels (a.k.a. rats with bushy tails) over them.

Aside from the cherry tomatoes, we get them through a CSA and a farmer's market. The latter should have canning quantities in a couple of weeks. It looks as if I'm headed for bmx later in the fall, so I want to be sure to have my canning jars filled at that point!

Exercise: it's been a very tough week thanks to the big D and a heat wave that just seems to be going on forever. It's a little cooler today (low 80s and not as humid), so am hoping to get out later in the afternoon.

wow, congratulations Jackbirdie! I thought my tomatoes were doing well this year but yours take the cake (or the tomato pie, actually :-))

Octogirl

oh how I adore Hummingbirds. They don't need an exercise thread

TOMATO PORN!

you can really see the heart shape in this pic. This one already weighs a pound I'd guess. Hard to resist frying it up! A co-worker made a green tomato tart once, might have to try to find that recipe.

back to our regularly scheduled programming. Tomato porn.

Sloth...... The most gorgeous tomato I've ever seen! Better than a DD rack!

Hah! FU cancer!

Hmmm...why do I suddenly have a craving for tomatoes? Drooling over the fresh ones here, but will have to settle for store bought...adding it to the grocery list now.

Hopeful...agreeing with what ksusan said about the sweating. Sweat supposedly irritates the skin. My problem skin area was under the armpit. I did try to take it easy when exercising, and not sweat too much, but did push myself a little, so I did sweat a bit. Sweat and friction in the armpit probably not a good combo. Was careful to clean and moisturizer afterwards, and ended up ok. Though when it came to peeling, the armpit was the first to peel.

PB

Ooops...sorry littleblue typo...my post above about sweating should have been addressed to you not hopeful. Got mixed up...sorry!

PB

definitely FUN facts. And so educational. My favorite kind

Noir. "Night" shade. Seeing a pattern here.

5.5 mile walk today.

Little Blue, my RO allows running.

I made a batch of salsa and froze several quarts of sauce...still have a lot of tomatoes left