Cherry/Roma Tomatoes?

[HomesteaderWife]

I am looking for any cooking/canning recipes that I can use a good deal of Cherry and Roma tomatoes for. We have plants right now that are putting out way more than any of us can eat on a salad! Any suggestions or ideas? Thank you, and I appreciate any replies!

 

[majorcatfish]

all the dw makes is stewed tomatoes when she cans
pick, wash, blanch, cut and can. never know what she going to make, so it's easier to add everything once you pop a lid...

 

[so lucky]

Do you have enough to cook down for sauce? You can freeze the Romas till you get enough for a batch of sauce.

 

[journey11]

If you have a dehydrator... You could make tomato powder, reconstitutes into tomato paste.

I've done them in slices before too, to use as sun-dried tomatoes, but not technically sun-dried.

 

[baymule]

There is so much you can do with too many tomatoes! Simply blanch, peel and can, or process to remove the seeds, cook down to remove some of the water, then can. Make What's Ready In The Garden Soup by tossing it all on a pot, heat up, pack in jars and process in pressure canner for delicious soup. Dried tomatoes are great on salads in the winter when you have salad greens, but no tomatoes. Dried tomatoes are great as a snack too.

I use an ancient strainer for getting the seeds and skins out. Looked them up on E-Bay and couldn't believe how cheap they are!

http://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/old-tomato-berry-strainer.13851/

 

[HomesteaderWife]

@baymule & @so lucky I have enough now that I could cook some down, but really wanting to try and make salsa. Any ideas on how to process them and make salsa? (I keep finding nothing but recipes that call for canned tomato paste)

 

[baymule]

Follow the recipes, use your own tomatoes. Online recipes are for people who live out of the grocery stores. We know better.

 

[ninnymary]

Homesteader, there are many different ways to make salsa. I roast my tomatoes, jalapenos, and garlic then pureed in the blender. Add salt and cook over stove for about 5 minutes. Then I water bath them.

Mary

 

[Beekissed]

If you have a food processor or blender, you can pop all those small tomatoes into the blender, along with other ingredients for making fresh salsa and presto! You have salsa! If you dehydrate the larger Romas, you can make tomato powder and use it to thicken your salsa.

If you have too much to eat fresh, just can it up.

You can also juice them and make tomato soup for canning as well.