Tiny Tim cherry tomatoes
San Marzano plum tomatoes
I've been wanting to try 'sun drying' my own tomatoes, but in the oven. Takes 12 hours at a very low temperature, 160°C, and I checked often to be sure they didn't get overdone.
Cherry tomatoes halved, put on a baking sheet with parchment paper, sprinkled with salt, pepper & basil.
Plum tomatoes quartered with salt & pepper on a baking sheet with a rack & parchment paper.
Cherries done! Not hard, more like a raisin, pliable.
Plums done!
I put the cherries in a jar with extra virgin olive oil and a clove of garlic cut in half and stored in the fridge. We love a pasta with these tomatoes, garlic & olive oil...yum!
The plum tomatoes I stored in a freezer bag after freezing them individually on a sheet pan so they can be removed a couple at a time as needed.
And to deal with the sink full of tomatoes...a variety of more plums, beefsteak, Brandy Wine & Better Boy. My husband loves stewed tomatoes, so I decided to make a batch of them.
Boiling tomatoes
Drop in ice
Remove skin
The ingredients. The green & hot peppers are from our garden, the onion & garlic from a local farmer and the carrot...well, store bought. (I didn't have any celery! Oh well, will still be good) Used olive oil, basil, parsley, sugar, salt & pepper. For certain recipes I prefer dried herbs, so I didn't use the fresh herbs from the garden.
Sauteeing the vegetables
Stewing the tomatoes. When they had cooled, I put them in containers and popped them into the freezer. Now he can enjoy his stewed tomatoes whenever he wants!
And, the chickens benefit too! They get most of the scraps from the vegetables...and boy do they love them. (no onion or garlic for them)
There are plenty more tomatoes ripening on the vines and I have a slew of hot peppers. I will be spending another day putting them up, so this time I plan on canning salsa. Tortillas anyone?
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