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EllieGirl 08-15-2013 09:58 AM

Are Your Tomatoes Making You Crazy?
 
We planted six tomato plants. They are coming in like crazy!! I dried some in the oven this morning but I think I had the temp too high, 250 and maybe should have been 200, so they didn't turn out as well as last year. But I have enough to make more. I like eating them for snacks.

What do you do with your tomatoes?

lildinks2013 08-15-2013 10:15 AM

use them in mexican recipe's m dehydrate them, freeze them for later use like in spaghetti sauces, salads, blt's, tomatoe juice etc. tomatoes r goooood.

MaryMo 08-15-2013 10:19 AM

I share with the squirrels .... or maybe it's the other way around.

mandyrose 08-15-2013 10:20 AM

tomatoe sandwhiches soooo good and drink the juice from the dish after sliceing them love em!!!

bearisgray 08-15-2013 10:26 AM

They only make me crazy when there are too many to eat and too few to can at one time. (Too few is less than seven quarts)

omacookie 08-15-2013 10:29 AM

Broil them with Parimesian cheese on top. Hugs

Emma S 08-15-2013 11:02 AM

I live in Oregon, our growing season is so short I never have to many. Yes, I have heard rumors of gardeners in this area over producing but never actually met anyone. Almost sure to many tomatoes in the Pacific Northwest is an Urban Myth. Your "problem" comes under the heading of BLESSING.

nygal 08-15-2013 11:29 AM

Our tomatoes are not ripe enough yet. But when they are we love BLT's and I also make a fresh sauce.

Tartan 08-15-2013 11:58 AM

If I have tons, I wash and dry my ripe tomatoes and pop a freezer bag full of them. They get like rocks in the the freezer but when I want to do stewed tomatoes, I drop the frozen tomatoes into boiling water for a few seconds and then into a bowl of water in the ink. The skin peels right off and I chop them up and put them in a pot to cook. Add all my spices and onions and let them simmer away.


DogHouseMom 08-15-2013 01:14 PM

We eat tons of salad when the tomato and cuke's are ripe. Right now we have a good amount of both. Last week for the first time I made freezer pickles. At the end of the season when we still have green tomatos on the vine and a frost warning ... I'll pick the green ones and pickle them "freezer pickle" style. I'm not into canning the old fashioned way, so when a friend introduced me to freezer pickles I was overjoyed!!


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