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ArosP

  • Joined Jul 2012
Best tomato recipe
« on: August 30, 2015, 08:21:41 pm »
I have just brought in a big bowl of tomatoes and was wondering what folk think is the best way of using them. I sometimes make tomato sauces and chutneys but wonder if there are better ways of getting the very best from them .

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2015, 01:57:40 am »
Tomato soup?  There is a nice recipe on here that Rosemary and Dan use.
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

Louise Gaunt

  • Joined May 2011
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2015, 07:53:53 am »
I made some chilli and tomato jam using Sarah Raven's recipe (I found it on line). It is really tasty, quite hot and very addictive. I have some in my sandwiches for today's public spinning demonstration at Lustleigh show!

ArosP

  • Joined Jul 2012
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2015, 08:24:32 am »
I do regulary make that chili jam it is delicious, Think tomato soup for tonight

ArosP

  • Joined Jul 2012
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2015, 08:27:45 am »
Just looked at recipe Bionic and its tinned tomatoes! Think i will make a tomato tart tonight. Made a lovely one out of Guardian recipes recently that had a layer of creamy fennel under the toms, well half of us thought it was lovely, an acquired taste i think!

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2015, 10:16:25 am »
ArosP,
Just dug out the recipe that I use myself.


olive oil
small onion, diced
small carrot, diced
1 stick of celery, diced
1 bay leaf
2 sprigs of thyme (I don't use this)
2 cloved of garlic, minced
2 tbsp tomato puree
1 kg ripe tomatoes, quartered and cored (I don't bother coring)
1 litre of veg or chicken stock
100ml white wine vinegar (sparse measure)
2 tbsp sugar


saute onions, carrot, celery, bay leaf, thyme, and garlic for 2 mins
add tomato puree for 2 mins
add tomatoes and cook for 5 mins with lid on
add stock and simmer for 15 mins
blitz it all together
heat vinegar and sugar and add to soup a little at a time to taste.


I really like this tomato soup and its not far away from Heinz tomato, if you like that
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

Cosmore

  • Joined Jun 2015
  • Dorset
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2015, 10:42:39 am »
Sugo pomodoro Napolitana....for use with any pasta dishes - mmm! :) .

Greenerlife

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Leafy Surrey
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2015, 12:40:47 pm »
If you have delicious tomatoes, make them even more delicious by roasting them before making soup with them.  My favourite.

waterbuffalofarmer

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Mid Wales
  • Owner of 61 Mediterranean water buffaloes
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2015, 12:54:03 pm »
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cloddopper

  • Joined Jun 2013
  • South Wales .Carmarthenshire. SA18
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2015, 11:53:10 pm »
On Thursday we reduced about two gallons of home grown toms to a sieved thick pulp after skinning them 7 giving them a quick whiz in the food processor ( plastic blade )  to get them going .
 my next todo task on the desk's note pad ( old scrapped paper cut up & stapled ) is to find a different tomato ketchup recipe.
We'd like to find six or seven then hot water bath preserve the end results leave them a few months to develop some maturity and see what we like best .
 

Has any one tried making one using ginger and or cinnamon or different spices .
I have just brought in a big bowl of tomatoes and was wondering what folk think is the best way of using them. I sometimes make tomato sauces and chutneys but wonder if there are better ways of getting the very best from them .

 I'm having thin ham sliced  covered with 1/4 " thick tomato slices ,topped with  fetta or preferable hallumi cheese and laced with a sweet orange flavoured balsamic vinegar for lunch tomorrow and quite a few there after as we'vegot a big crop of large money maker toms  starting to show ready in th glasshouse .

All the plum and beefsteak toms are  finished ( not enough sun /heat  ),  they went into the puree we made.

 you can freeze toms with out any preparation just bung them in a bag and put them in the freezer ..they stay like red snooker balls  . Drop them in stews still frozen , they'll thaw & cook out nicely .
If you thaw them they end up wet & mushy but can be used as frying pan material .
 

You should not try and make uncooked food or drinks out of them if they have been or are frozen they must always be cooked .
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Caroline1

  • Joined Nov 2014
  • Cambridgeshire
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2015, 02:11:49 pm »
I cooked up a load of tomatoes with onions, garlic and grated courgette, blended and froze as pasta sauce. Killed 2 birds with 1 stone.  :thumbsup:
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Caroline

waterbuffalofarmer

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Mid Wales
  • Owner of 61 Mediterranean water buffaloes
Re: Best tomato recipe
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2015, 02:39:11 pm »
I cooked up a load of tomatoes with onions, garlic and grated courgette, blended and froze as pasta sauce. Killed 2 birds with 1 stone.  :thumbsup:
Well thats not nice is it ;)
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