Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Tomato Triage
...Rain. Rai-ai-ai-ain...
-Bonnie Bramlett/Eric Clapton, Let It Rain.
We're catching a break from the heat and drought here, and now I don't have to fret about watering (or not watering). That frees me up to fret about tomatoes cracking and rotting instead. I just picked a small basketful, and picked out the ones that I had to use or lose. Those are cooking on the stove right now, destined for the freezer. The next ones - the ones that have some problems, but not too bad for fresh use - are going into salsa for tonight's dinner. Lunch was tomato sandwiches with fresh mozzarella and basil. Last night I didn't cook, but yesterday's lunch was chicken fajitas with, um, salsa. We like salsa.
A couple of weeks ago I started a post over on my food blog about all the ways we were using the tomatoes, but I never finished it. It was too long and I decided to break it up, but didn't get around to it. But I mentioned in a comment to Blackswamp Girl that I was going to make our favorite potato and tomato dish as soon as the weather was cool enough to turn on the oven, and last weekend I did just that. The recipe is now posted on my food blog.
What's your favorite tomato recipe? Maybe we could start a Garden Bloggers' Cookbook.
Labels: tomatoes
6 Comments:
That potato/tomato recipe looks really good, Entangled - I may give this one a try. Thanks!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Annie: Let me know how it turns out!
Thanks for stopping by my blog! One of my favorite recipe for tomatoes in summer is Greek Picnic Salad...hope to post the recipe soon.
Connie: Greek Picnic Salad sounds great - I'll be watching for your recipe!
Well, it still sounds good to me, Entangled, but when I ran the recipe past Philo, he said he didn't see the point of roasting a tomato if you could eat it raw. Since it's less work I shouldn't complain ;-]
Annie
Annie, I actually agree with Philo at the beginning of the tomato season ;-) but this is really an end-of-the-season type of recipe, after you've had all the fresh tomatoes you can stand. It even works OK with so-so store-bought Romas. If I ever get a chance to stop cooking tomatoes and start writing about them again, I'll post some more recipes.
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