In May we were given 11 tomato plant seedlings and planted them all, assuming that they wouldn't all be fruitful. We were wrong! We now have overwhelming amounts of tomatoes to pick every week (betwee 30 - 50).
And the question often occurs to me, what should I do with so many tomatoes?
And the question often occurs to me, what should I do with so many tomatoes?
Last week, I discovered that you don't have to buy pasta sauce in a jar - you can make it at home! (For some reason, this never occured to me before). So I chopped up onions, garlic, zucchini (from a friend's garden), eggplant (also from our backyard), and about 25 tomatoes - sauteed them all together - added some tomato paste, salt and spices.
And voila! At least 2 gallons worth of tasty tomato sauce!
Yum!
I've been making ovenfuls of oven-dried tomatoes, which taste pretty much just like sun-dried tomatoes! The slightly-too-crispy ones work nicely as salad toppings or little tomato chips, the just-right ones get sliced, preserved in olive oil (in the fridge), and made into yummy foods.
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