My Favorite Recipes: Tomato-centric recipes

Ask any of my friends, and they will tell you I am crazy about tomato-based dishes, specifically spaghetti and chili. I love to eat raw tomatoes like they're apples – mushrooms and onions, too.

That's probably the first thing you need to know about me. The second is that I'm the newest reporter at the Whitman County Gazette.

I can't say quite why I've come to love spaghetti so much. My family is American with German, Irish and English roots, and I grew up in Baltimore, Md. We ate steak-and-potato dinners, sometimes with cheesy broccoli or pasta, but not a whole lot of spaghetti. My mom would a...