TOOOOO Many Tomatoes, Help Please

chrislee765

Dont forget friends and family. Im sure they'll love some of your freshly picked produce.
Did you check out squeakys link?

Yoga_Girl

My tomatoes are on a go-slow and so far I've had 2 - yes, just 2! - ripen!:(

If you ever bake any fish in tin foil, add a few cherry tomatoes or halved/quatered tomatoes and some herbs and a dash of olive oil around the fish, wrap it all up in the foil and bung in the oven. You can also add capers and anchovies as well if you like those. Goes really well with cod or any white fish.

bugs

N9eav wrote:

Any good tommy soup recipees?

The roasted one by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall (think it is in the River Cottage Cookbook but you can probably find it on the web) is very nice...you can also not "soup" it and just make a nice sauce, which you can freeze, for pasta etc. I don't use the recipe any more though, just cut in two, shove a bit of oil on and any herbs/flavourings I remember, and roast. Does make a depth of flavour and no stirring of pots :j

16011996

i chop mine into small pieces, warm in a pan till soft, add herbs or garlic and freeze to use with pasta when i have a llot.

Gillby1

I use the River Cottage recipe for tons of tomatoes!

Ingredients:

about 2kg good, ripe tomatoes
3-4 large garlic cloves, bruised and roughly chopped
a pinch of sugar
olive oil
salt and freshly ground black pepper


Slice the tomatoes in half and place cut-side up on a baking tray in a single layer. Scatter the garlic over the tomatoes. Season well with salt and pepper, sprinkle over the sugar and drizzle over a little olive oil. Roast in a moderate oven (180°C/Gas Mark 4) for about 45 minutes, until the tomatoes are well browned and beginning to ooze juice. Remove from the oven and leave to cool for a few moments. Place a sieve over a bowl and rub the tomatoes through it to extract all the juice and flesh. You can freeze the purée at this stage for all kinds of uses.

N9eav

I will sure give it a try. There are loads coming and with the next 5 days forcast to be warm and sunny....Bumper crops this year. I have veggies all over the garden and it could be the best year ever. Even have over 100lbs of honey on the beehive.:D

se999

Hello,

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Glad to here your summers gone so well

Sweet_Pea_2

I have got eleven tomato plants in pots on my patio and loads of tomatoes forming/growing, (also I have a couple of tubs full of cherry tomato plants too) BUT - there is only me in our house who eats them.
I need some ideas of what I can do to preserve them. OH likes tomato relish, and I was thinking maybe soups/sauces/chutneys? I have never cooked anything like this before, but now I've grown and nurtured them I need to make sure they all get eaten. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks.

brokenwings

im afraid my tomatoes are going to be ripe before theyre a decent size

ive windowlened the greenhouse glass and i hang a sheet over to stop too much bright sunshine going in all day - but does anyone know if theres a way to slow down the ripening and encourage growth?

MIRRY_2

ok,
Ive just been down the garden to pick my tomatos and WOW ive got way too many to cope with

if I skin them ,can I boil them and then freeze them ?

It would save me buying tins of tomatoes through the winter.

any ideas welcome.