Warning: extra crappy photos due to my old 1mp phone camera. 

Just noticed this growing out of the compost pile and it looks to me like a papaya tree. 

Still getting a nice amount of tomatoes, although very heavily scarred. 

Whenever there are too many tomatoes I make some tomato sauce with fresh pasta.. soo good. Discovered that making pasta by hand really isn't that difficult. It takes about an hour from start to finish, no machines or gadgets necessary. All you do is mix flour and eggs together, let the dough rest for 20-30 minutes in plastic wrap, roll it out as thin as possible, and slice into fettuccine. Boil it for two minutes and voila! Fresh, yummy pasta. 

There are so many videos you can watch online to see how its done, if you have the time it's worth it. Personally I like the physical aspect of doing it by hand rather than having machines do all the work. Build some arm muscle the old fashioned way :) 

As you can see, the pasta is quite dark in the photo above. I tried a mix of half whole wheat and half white and it surprisingly turned out  fantastic. And it's regular flour - not even pastry flour. The fun thing about making pasta is the endless options. Previously I blended kale + basil + oil, added that to the dough, and it was a beautiful green color and added an extra hint of flavor.