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Fresh Tomato Pesto

September 21, 2018 No Comments

I don’t know about you, but when it’s tomato season my garden is OVERFLOWING with tomatoes. I love this time of year but I always reach a point of tomato overload. This recipe for Fresh Tomato Pesto is the best way to use up and preserve the seasons best produce. Try this versatile pesto as a dip with crackers or bread, on pasta, or as pizza sauce.

Fresh Tomato Pesto

2018-09-19 19:34:12

Fresh tomato pesto makes a perfect pizza sauce or addition to a charcuterie board.

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Total Time

10 min

Total Time

10 min

Ingredients

2 cups tomatoes, roughly chopped
1/2 cup basil, packed
1/3 cup almonds
1/2 cup oil (olive or canola works well)
1 clove garlic
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Add all ingredients to a food processor and puree until smooth.
Serve immediately or freeze for future use.

Notes

Fresh Tomato Pesto makes a great dip, an awesome pizza sauce, and freezes well.

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Still have too many tomatoes on your hands? Check out our round up of 25 ways to use tomatoes! You could also try roasting them, making fresh salsa, or making caprese bites.

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Caprese Bites

September 27, 2017 No Comments

Caprese Bites

As fall arrives, many of us are struggling with an overload and excess of tomatoes – many shapes and sizes. Some beefsteaks and most likely some lovely sweet cherry tomatoes. In my family, those cherry tomatoes are just as good as candy – we all pop them in our mouths, sometimes fresh off the plant!

This appetizer is a great way to use some of those tomatoes in a classic combination, in appetizer size – caprese salad bites.

Caprese Bites

2017-09-26 17:51:07

Serves 5

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Ingredients

10 basil leaves
10 cherry tomatoes, various colours
10 mini bocconcini balls
balsamic vinegar (optional)
olive oil (optional)

Instructions

Pull out 10 longer sized toothpicks.
On each toothpick, stack a cherry tomato, a basil leaf, and a cheese ball.
Place or stack on serving plate of your choice.

Notes

This recipe is very easy to scale up (or down) depending on your party size. If you are making it for yourself, then the sky is the limit!
If you want to make it a bit more fancy, you could either drizzle some olive oil and balsamic vinegar over top, or place it on the side for dipping. Both those flavours complement the cheese and tomatoes very well, making it a classic combination.

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25 Ways to Eat More Tomatoes

August 23, 2017 2 Comments

The garden tomatoes are here! Can you hear our cheers through your computer screen?

We’ve been able to pull the first few vine ripe tomatoes out of the garden but we have many, many more green ones that are just waiting to ripen. Sure enough in a few weeks time we’re going to have more tomatoes than we know what to do with.

If you’re like us and you have a hundred in your garden or just want to take advantage of the super affordable tomatoes in store during this time of year, we have you covered. We collaborated with some blogger friends to bring you 25 ways to eat more tomatoes!

25 Ways to Eat Tomatoes

Salads

Quick Heirloom Tomato Salad – Eye Candy Popper

Summer Bounty Grilled Panzanella – The Grey Bell

Roasted Tomato and Olive Panzanella – Sugar Love Spices

Tabouleh – Bon Appet’Eat

The Perfect Simple Tomato Salad – My Kitchen Love

Canning & Preserving

How to Peel a Tomato for Canning – The Rustic Wife

Simple Roasted Tomatoes – Homemade and Yummy

Green Tomato Chow – My Island Bistro Kitchen

Oven Roasted Tomatoes – Cookery Nation

Moms Chili Sauce – The Rustic Wife

Oven Roasted Heirloom Spaghetti Sauce – Eye Candy Popper

Condiments & Sauces

Fresh Salsa – River City Cookery

Classic Tomato Sauce – Earth Food and Fire

Lunch or Dinner

Vegan Scalloped Tomatoes – The Taste Space

Roasted Tomato Basil Soup – The Food Blog

Summer Tomato Pasta – My Kitchen Love

Sausage and Eggplant Bucatini with Fennel Tomato Sauce – Diversivore

Roasted Fingerling Potatoes, Radish and Red Onion in Tomato Vinaigarette – The Yum Yum Factor

Easy One-Pot Classic Ratatouille – Bacon is Magic

Try Something New

Polenta Tarts with Honey Roasted Tomatoes – Beth Dunham

Catalan Tomato Bread – Bacon is Magic

Tomato Bruschetta – Kitchen Uncorked

Spicy Tomato Cobbler – Joe and Sue

Aged Goat Cheese Tomato Tart – Sugar Love Spices

We hope we’ve inspired you to eat more tomatoes! Please share your favourite ways to eat tomatoes in the comments below.

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Fresh Salsa

July 26, 2017 2 Comments

Nothing beats the fresh summer produce that we get fresh from the garden – zucchini, peppers, beans, peas, cucumbers, and not least of all tomatoes. Pretty soon, any avid gardener is going to have more tomatoes than they can shake a stick at!

Here is a great, super simple fresh salsa to answer the age-old question: what do I do with all these tomatoes?

Fresh Salsa