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I will miss you, little tomatoes!

Date: Sep. 29th 2008
Category: Preserves, Magazine Mondays
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For as long as I can remember, we have always had a garden. My grandparents always had a garden. My aunts and uncle always had a garden. My cousins alway had a garden. My friends and neighbours always had a garden.

Now that the time has come to say goodbye to the garden for another year, like most people, there are certain vegetables and fruits that I will miss more than others. But I will miss none more than my sweet little cherry tomatoes.

I love you guys!!!

While almost all of our other tomato varieties have yielded the last of their fruits, our little cherry tomatoes are still going fairly strong.

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So about a week ago I decided to find some way to preserve some of these babies. I did a little searching and came across this recipe.

The base of the tomatoes in oil is a very simple recipe for Oven-Dried Tomatoes. I so enjoyed watching the tomatoes slowly roast and dry in the oven. It made me feel like I was preserving something very special from the summer season. And it was easy! So easy that I wondered why I haven’t done this more often.

The tomatoes in oil have graced our pasta, our pizza and some fabulous panini.

This is my Magazine Mondays recipe for this week. As always, I remind you that if you have a magazine recipe that you’ve finally put to bed, send me a link and I’ll post it in my next Magazine Mondays post. And you don’t have to post your recipe on a Monday. It can be any day of the week.

Have a great week, everyone!

Ciao!

This week I was joined by the my buddy Wandering Coyote of ReTorte with some mouth-watering Braised Beef Ribs!

Here are the recipes I used: Oven-Dried Tomatoes and Dried Tomatoes in Olive Oil.

21 Comments


09/29/08 at 7:50 pm

All the way. I’m with you all the way on this one Ivonne. Tomato from the garden are really the only true tomato flavor. And slow roasting is divine for these babies.


09/29/08 at 9:02 pm

I will also miss all those gorgeous summer veggies and fruits…

Cheers,

Rosa


09/29/08 at 9:32 pm

Oh, they look so pretty! Do you can? That way you could have them all through the winter…


09/30/08 at 6:15 am

I don’t have a gargen as we ar living in a appartment.
But i love these tomatoes you have dried yourself in the oven.
Will try them with the shop bought ones.


09/30/08 at 6:28 am

I will miss the little guys too! Thanks for the recipe. I will try to preserve as many as I can!!


09/30/08 at 8:30 am

I too always had a garden - none this year though, since the weather was so horrid. Nothing could grow! :-(

Tomatoes!!! I will sorely miss thee.


09/30/08 at 11:25 am

Awwww, maybe next year I’ll have a garden and I will miss the little tomatoes as well. I just love tomatoes :D

Patrick

09/30/08 at 11:35 am

What about botulism?
A very similar recipe published by Kingsolver in ‘Animal, Vegetable, Miracle’ calls for tossing the tomatoes in balsamic before canning, since the acidity inhibits botulism.


10/1/08 at 1:10 am

Well those are the devil, throat swellers for me, but I know people love em. I will miss good fresh corn.


10/1/08 at 5:49 am

I’m so glad it’s spring here now… Can’t wait to have delicious tomatoes again.


10/1/08 at 11:23 am

I bet these look great too!
I don’t have my own tomatoes but I will visit the market get some nice tomatoes and make a few jars of these.


10/1/08 at 11:31 am

really nice tomatoes. I bet they taste awesome. I like do is sun dried tomatoes :)


10/1/08 at 5:00 pm

Ivonne, I did a batch of these also, and did you know you can freeze them too. In fact, I just defrosted a bag I did to put on a pizza, and they turned out perfect! It was the first time I ever froze them, I read it on another blog that you could do that. I’m sorry I don’t remember who’s it was!


10/2/08 at 12:21 pm

Yes, I still have loads of cherry tomatoes hanging from the vines and each day I go out to grab a handful of those that have ripened. I think tonight might finally be the end of it, however. Lows in the 30’s might just do them in.


10/2/08 at 1:39 pm

These tomatoes look fantastic, Ivonne. And so versatile, too!


10/2/08 at 2:22 pm

Such a great dish - I’m going to miss tomatoes too!


10/2/08 at 5:57 pm

I understand what you mean about tomatoes - I hope you have been enjoying the last of them!


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10/5/08 at 6:59 am

oH, those little cherry tomatoes look quite appealing and delicious. I can understand why you wanted them to last forever. My cherry tomato plant produced longer than the others this year too, but sadly it wasn’t a very big producing plant. Just got a few of those little guys here and there. I’m horrible with getting gardens to do their thing!


10/8/08 at 5:20 am

Great recipe! I love cherry tomatoes.
I just finished roasting the last batch of Italian tomatoes which I freeze. The taste doesn’t get better than this.


10/20/08 at 2:52 pm

Thank you so much for this recipe! I was looking for a way to use up the last of my cherry tomatoes, and this was so good that I’m going to buy a few more before they’re all gone! (We get Spain’s exports a bit later than back in the States).

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