{pre-spaghetti sauce}
{and we have cucumbers and green beans too}
{stuffed blt cherry tomatoes and stuffed guacamole cherry tomatoes}
Send recipes soon. The growth is not slowing!!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Toe-mate-oh?
Do you have tomatoes growing like crazy? We do. Regular and Cherry. We're not complaining, we're just running low on ideas to make and/or can. This morning Jake and I peeled 43 regular tomatoes and made homemade spaghetti sauce. We pulled a Stuffed Cherry Tomato recipe off line and tried two of those. They were delicious. We've done salsa and BLT's, now we need help. What else can you do with tomatoes?
{pre-spaghetti sauce}
{pre-spaghetti sauce}
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Wow, what a problem to have! It looks sooo beautiful up there!
I'm jealous because mine are still green as ever. I did, however, eat my first cucumber from the garden yesterday and it was so good! You should can the tomatoes for winter. And food storage. I heard they hold up great.
Did you know that you can freeze tomatoes? We did it last year, although I couldn't tell you what to do with them when you are ready to use them because ours are still in the freezer from last year.
Our favorite tomatoe recipes is Caprese salad. All you need is tomatoes, fresh mozzerella cheese (make sure it is the fresh kind and not the kink you use on pizza), basil, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Slice your tomatoes and cheese, layer them with the basil and drizzle with oil and vinegar. YUM!
You could attempt to can your spaghetti sauce, or make tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches. Caprese salad is my favorite but Beth already told you about that.
It's like the attack of the killer tomatoes.......time to stunt their growth. Two peoploe can only eat so much tomato based stuff......but we're jealous.....
Send them to me!!! I LOVE Cherry Tomatoes!
Your grandma Gapen used to can whole tomatoes by first washing them to get any dirt off of them from the garden. She would then boil water and with a slotted spoon, very gently dunk them into the water while still keeping them on the spoon. This will make the skin split (it's called blanching) and it will be much easier to remove. Then you add them to your clean hot jars one at a time and pack it to the top of the jar leaving a little head room at the top. I watched her take tomato juice that she had made the day before and add this to the jar of tomatoes, put the seal and lid on it and then give them their hot water bath to seal in the goodness.
Very carefully she would lift the hot jars out and set them on a towel away from a draft until the little lids would begin to pull down making that wonderful popping sound! This is how she knew that the jars were sealed. She then let them cool completely and stored them in the basement in a cool dark area.
Those tomatoes were delicious all winter long and she would add them to her soups and stews and even chilli!
I miss your Grandma Gapen...she had sooo many wonderful little things that she did to make my life and the lives of my sister and brothers so memorable!
The stuffed cherry tomatoes look delicious!
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