I congratulate you for realizing the importance of learning the process of cooking tomatoes, learn from your parents as much as you can now, don't wait, my mother knew a lot about plants, I didn't learn from her and now that she died suddenly I am researching.
PS: I loved seeing the kitten in the photos.
I am so sorry to hear that, I think we all feel like we will have time to do/learn things so we leave it for later but sometimes life has different plans for us.
Kitten almost looks like a bodyguard. :)