TOOOOO Many Tomatoes, Help Please

alex21

I throw loads of cherry tomatoes when whoopsied in a roasting tray and drizzle with a little olive oil and a sprinkle of brown sugar. Roast until soft but still keeping their shape. 3/4 fill jam jars with the tomatoes and top with the juices in the pan and a tiny topping of olive oil if not enough juice to totally cover. These keep for weeks in the fridge and can be the basis of chilli, spag bol etc or my son loves them cold with salad rather than with 'raw' tomatoes.:)

kjmtidea

I finely chop them and chuck them in a tuna pasta bake, the kids never notice .

splodger_seedswapper

i have got a huge number of green toms (blight on lotty plot) and am not sure what to do with them all (i'm not making much chutney this year - still got loads from last yr)

i have found a recipe for green tomato wine - so am considering trying that - anybody else made wine from toms?

aless02

http://southernfood.about.com/od/greentomatoes/r/bl30515t.htm just found this, which I'm about to make this minute. Read the reviews for some interesting adaptions. Might make some interesting pies at Christmastime!

mi_jardin

splodger_seedswapper wrote: »

i have got a huge number of green toms (blight on lotty plot) and am not sure what to do with them all (i'm not making much chutney this year - still got loads from last yr)

I have had the same problem for the last 2 years. I put them in bowls and leave them in the extension in sunlight to ripen. Even if they take a while, eventually they ripen, then I make tomato pasta sauce with them.

For 2kilos of toms I gently soften 2 onions and a bulb of garlic and a courgette (because they have to be used up too!) in olive oil. Then I halve the toms and simmer it all down. I usually add a good tbsp of tom puree too to help thicken it up a bit more.
Then I whizz it up with the stick blender and jar up.
I still have some left form last summer and its still great.

splodger_seedswapper

thanks - i usually do that too - and just check daily for the blighted ones turning off

trouble is now - having just got back from my other plot - which has blight too - i now have over 25kgs of green toms

i will offer some up on freecycle - but i will still have loads left over

with ripened toms - i make them into soups, passatta type sauces etc etc - but can i do something similar with green ones too?

my house is messy enough as it is - without another dozen trays of veg blocking up the hallway - i would put them in the greenhouse (which is empty - sort of) but a mouse has decided to make a nest in there and i reckon he will try eating them

Farway

As others, I just freeze them whole and then use where you you would use a tin of tomatoes

Too much faffing around to skin / deseed them, just call it rustic French cooking

splodger_seedswapper

Farway wrote: »

As others, I just freeze them whole and then use where you you would use a tin of tomatoes

Too much faffing around to skin / deseed them, just call it rustic French cooking

are green ones ok to use like that too ?

zippychick

we also have these threads

Cherry tomatoes

Green tomatoes

Green tomato chutney

Zip

Middy

I have 15 tomatoes and a punnet of cherry tomatoes to use up. I was planning on making soup, but there is no room for 3 plastic pots of soup in my fridge/freezer.

I'm looking for some low fat meals.

Please forward to a better board if you think I get better results there.