By Jeanie Rose | Tomatoes
My whole adult life I have not eaten tomato soup. I VOWED never to eat it again. In the early years I got to eat tomato soup every day: every.single.day. It came from a can and tasted like a can. Surely you can understand my vow. Both my young grandsons think tomato soup is splendid. […]
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Sun dried tomatoes are a great treat. You can buy sun-dried tomatoes or dry tomatoes yourself should you have access to a bumper crop. Either way, you can enjoy the rich, musky flavor of a sun dried tomato all year round. Where to Buy Sun Dried Tomatoes You should be able to find dehydrated tomatoes […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Tomatoes
If you garden and preserve a lot of food, sooner or later you face the problem of all those who tread the same path before you. Where do you store it all? The freezers are full. Those special shelves you installed for canned goods are full. The pantry is bursting at the seams. Dehydrating is […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Tomatoes
There are times when you want to slip those skins off your juicy red garden tomatoes: When you’re adding chopped fresh tomato to a cooked dish where you do not want to see bits of tomato skin floating around at serving time. After all your hard work, this can look pretty tacky. When someone in […]
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By Amanda Rose | Tomatoes
Every once in a while you stumble on a sauce that is so delicious, you want to jump into it and swim around. Here is the kind of sauce you chase around the plate with a piece of sourdough to be certain not to miss a drop. When the sauce is drop-dead simple, taking less […]
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This tomato salad is may be our all-time favorite summer salad and is best when the vegetables are fresh, vine-ripened, and full of flavor. If you can manage a vine-ripened heirloom tomato, eating this salad may feel a little bit like Heaven. The first time I had this was 4th of July, sitting on a […]
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