Processing Tomatoes

I bought this one box of Roma tomatoes. Usually when you buy a box of tomatoes the top ones are the beauties and the bottom ones are the dogs. Not in this case. Every single one of these tomatoes was perfect!

I started by making two tomato pies. Then I made a giant pot of tomato sauce. I used my largest Dutch oven and put in 30 tomatoes and two giant sweet onions. Cooked it for five hours and when it was all said and done it was two quarts. But it is beautiful, especially since I put in my fresh basil which has flourished when everything else failed.

Lastly, I cut 18 tomatoes in half and seeded them and slow roasted them in the oven with some olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I just turned the oven off after four hours and are letting them sit in the oven until tomorrow.

All that cooking and I still have one third of a box of maters left. I will probably roast all of them since that is the least amount of work for me. Once roasted they can be frozen to make into sauce, soup or other ingredient in a future concoction.

Those were not the only tomatoes I bought. So we will be eating BLT’s tomorrow and anything else I can think of with tomatoes.

I also made a nectarine, cucumber and tomato salad today that we had for lunch with burratta.

We had tomato pie and corn for dinner. Outside of bacon, I can not think of when we might eat meat again. We have a few more vegetables to get through.