What to do with tomatoes

[notbobvilla]

I have a PILE of tomatoes ready to do something with...what can I do? Looking for quick easy way to preserve or freeze ro....whatever..quick and simple

Ideas?

[dsgarner06]

Tomato Sauce, salsa, tomato jam or stewed/diced. Can them if you can... pretty simple to do if you have canning stuff.

[BBQ Engineer]

dehydrate...man are they good like that.

I have done a ton this year...here is some from last year that I posted. My fave way to keep them and also the easiest to do.

http://www.smoked-meat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30312

[Richtee]

Bring me some to Silver Lake :{) Spag sauce season!

[smc51]

Do you have a Spaghetti sauce recipe you'd like to share Rich ?

[curious aardvark]

tomato chutney

[Richtee]

Recipe? Well... it's always different because I'm familiar and do it by smell/taste.

But-

3-4 quarts of tomato sauce. Home brew or canned. Romas are real good for a sauce base.

1 garlic flower/bulb
1 large onion
4 bay leaves
.5 pound italian sausage, uncased
.5 pound ground beef
1 full sprig fresh basil
3-4 anchovy fillets
Any assorted beef or pork bones you may have that fit
1 cup dry red wine
.5 cup black olives sliced
.25 cup olive oil
Kosher salt and CBP to taste

Chop onion and garlic to fine dice

Heat oil in fry pan and sweat them to translucent. add meat and cook to brown. add anchovy, olives and deglace with red wine- remove from heat.

at the same time put sauce in sauce/stock pot (and stock/soup bones if ya have them) heat sauce to a low simmer. dump entire meat etc. mix into the pot adding the basil and bay leaf...cover and simmer for an hour or so. After that, remove lid and reduce..BEING CAREFUL not to scorch! Mix every 15 mins or so. Remove any bones as sauce reduces to desired consistency.

[Slanted88]

me Louie can's em...man we got quarts of em...she is a salsa dooer...uhh...okra in it dooer...uhhh...corn in it...got alot of her canning this year...

[Fishawn]

dehydrate...man are they good like that.

I have done a ton this year...here is some from last year that I posted. My fave way to keep them and also the easiest to do.

http://www.smoked-meat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30312

X2 Awesome!!!

[SmokinOutBack]

I used to like throwing them at cars driving by, but that was a long time ago.
Salsa, blanch for sauce, make ketchup, etc..

[barkonbutts]

Salsa.. or puree...

[dcarch]

Tomatoes are 95% water. After dehydration, they are intensely flavorful and nutritious.

I like to remove the skin and seeds and turn then into tomato leather for snacks.

I can turn the leather into chips, for cooking or snacks.

Then the chip can turn into tomato powder. You can make all kinds of rubs with tomato powder.

I also make fancy tomato leathers for gifts.

dcarch

[SMOKE FREAK]

This was fun and tasty...
Good for soups and chili throughout the winter...

http://www.smoked-meat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34836

We also make a ton of salsa...Recipe upon request...
Tomato juice is good
And dehydrate if yer short of time...Can be use for so many things...

[HawgHeaven]

I used to like throwing them at cars driving by, but that was a long time ago.
Salsa, blanch for sauce, make ketchup, etc..

Glad to see you grew up Jim...

Can, or dehydrate and grind into powder... umami!!

[SMOKE FREAK]

Tomato powder is a good thing to have around...
I dry mine well past the leather stage...They last forever in a jar and grind well...