When I find myself with more tomatoes than counter-space to store them on, I have several options (in addition to sharing them with friends): make sauce, freeze them, or make sun-dried tomatoes. Sun-dried tomatoes are one of my favorite foods, many never make it from the oven into the jars (any ‘imperfection’ is a good…
Category: Tomatoes
Khoresh Bademjun – Persian Eggplant Stew
Khoresh Bademjun is the most often requested birthday dinner dish in our house. And we have to call it by its Persian name since Emily, who loves it, could not bring herself to eat eggplant, but as long as we called it khoresh bademjun, it was delicious. It takes a long time to prepare and…
Basic Tomato Sauce
When tomatoes are plentiful, I make many batches of basic tomato sauce, freeze it, and then adjust the flavors and texture depending upon it’s intended use. Depending upon my harvest, I can be finishing the last of last year’s sauce just as this year’s tomatoes begin to ripen. And as you will see below, making…
Gazpacho
I love gazpacho; I could eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But I have spent years trying to get the “right” gazpacho recipe. I really wanted to find one I liked that did not use tomato juice, that always felt like “cheating”. I have finally found one that I consider worth sharing. This recipe…
Ratatouille
I remember hating ratatouille as a child. I only rediscovered it a couple of years ago when I had an abundance of zucchini and eggplants and did not yet have many recipes for them. Luckily, I realized that the secret to delicious ratatouille is to cook it super long so that everything blends and it…
Tomato Cucumber Salad – Variations
Nothing says “Summer” to me more than when I start making daily tomato cucumber salads. The other ingredients can vary, but the stars are my cucumbers and heirloom tomatoes. The vegetables are so flavorful in themselves, they need only the most minimal dressing to show off their flavors. Thinking about it makes me smile,…
Zucchini Pasta with Tomatoes & Feta
And so it begins…zucchini time! It is always so disarming, first a few cute little zucchini; a few weeks later and we will be innundated and no amount of zucchini bread baking will be able to keep up. But the season here is usually short lived, our plants are prone to a disease and as…
Swiss Chard – White Bean – Tomato Ragout
Still harvesting swiss chard, but what new to do with it? I wanted something really flavorful, and different from the dishes I have already made this season. Last year I had tried a few white bean/tomato dishes that were very tasty. So when I saw a dish in Martha Rose Shulman’s Mediterranean Harvest cookbook for…
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