Hattie the Hen
Deeply Rooted
Hi there!
As this year I am growing over 50 tomato plants I am already collecting ideas for using them. I adore cooked tomatoes so I was more than happy to hear the news that cooked they were even better for us than uncooked!
When I worked in Italy I loved going to a restaurant at lunchtime & trying all their wonderful simple vegetable dishes that were laid out before you on a huge table. The Italians often serve them somewhere between warm & hot so that you can really taste the flavour. They also serve a lot of vegetable dishes that we would eat hot as cold dishes -- personally I have often preferred the cold "left-overs", the next day, to the hot meal I have cooked for friends the evening before....
Here is one of the recipes I am definitely going to make -- especially as you don't have to cook the rice first & it uses the pulp inside the tomatoes!! The Italians don't waste ANYTHING...!
http://divinacucina.blogspot.com/2005/07/pomodori-ripieni.html
No doubt I shall find lots more tasty tomato dishes for you to try! Do you have any to share with us? You must have as you all grow SO MANY TOMATOES.......!!
HAPPY GARDENING & COOKING! :happy_flower
[ Edited to add a bonus article by the above blogger about Italian tomatoes -- at the end of this is another great tomato dish with linguini]
:rose Hattie :rose
As this year I am growing over 50 tomato plants I am already collecting ideas for using them. I adore cooked tomatoes so I was more than happy to hear the news that cooked they were even better for us than uncooked!
When I worked in Italy I loved going to a restaurant at lunchtime & trying all their wonderful simple vegetable dishes that were laid out before you on a huge table. The Italians often serve them somewhere between warm & hot so that you can really taste the flavour. They also serve a lot of vegetable dishes that we would eat hot as cold dishes -- personally I have often preferred the cold "left-overs", the next day, to the hot meal I have cooked for friends the evening before....
Here is one of the recipes I am definitely going to make -- especially as you don't have to cook the rice first & it uses the pulp inside the tomatoes!! The Italians don't waste ANYTHING...!
http://divinacucina.blogspot.com/2005/07/pomodori-ripieni.html
No doubt I shall find lots more tasty tomato dishes for you to try! Do you have any to share with us? You must have as you all grow SO MANY TOMATOES.......!!
HAPPY GARDENING & COOKING! :happy_flower
[ Edited to add a bonus article by the above blogger about Italian tomatoes -- at the end of this is another great tomato dish with linguini]
:rose Hattie :rose