Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. This afternoon, I needed to clean out our freezer and my husband needed some flavorful soup. Cleaning out the freezer really isn’t a big deal since it occupies a tiny section of our tall, slim refrigerator. It’s a haven for stock and broth of all kinds, [...]
Archive for the ‘Tomato’ Category
Pumpkin, Tomato and Chickpea Soup with Ras el Hanout
Posted in Beans and legumes, Pumpkin, Soup, Tomato on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Homemade Tomato-Ginger Ketchup and Sweet Potato Fries
Posted in Condiments, Preserving, Tomato, tagged Homemade tomato ketchup, Parsi cooking on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
During one of my final canning sessions to use up all of the paste tomatoes I harvested at our CSA this year, I developed a new ketchup recipe and I’m very excited about it. Last year’s sweet ketchup was very good, flavorful but not robust, although it’s one of my staples now. Last year, I [...]
Sautéed Corn with Pepper and Tomato
Posted in Corn, Peppers, Tomato, tagged Louisiana maquechoix on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What? Still serving fresh corn on the cob in New Jersey in October? You bet. No killer frost yet. Our local farm stand has a crop of corn in peak condition and another waiting, though we don’t have high hopes for the last one because the nights are getting too cold for the corn to [...]
Waste Not Want Not: Braised Fennel, Tomato-Orange Sauce, and Manicotti with Fennel Frond Pesto
Posted in Fennel, Pasta, Pesto, Tomato, Waste Not Want Not, tagged fennel frond pesto, pasta with tomatos and fennel, tomato-orange-fennel sauce on October 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After a weekend of canning tomatoes, including a lovely Provençale-style tomato sauce with orange and rosemary, I had a little leftover sauce, a leftover half of an orange (precious at this time of year) and a large (3-foot-long) bulb of Florence fennel with stalks and fronds intact, courtesy of our CSA farm. I hadn’t figured [...]
Canning Tomatoes: Tomato-Orange-Rosemary Sauce
Posted in Herbs, Preserving, Tomato, tagged Canning tomato orange rosemary sauce, Canning tomato puree, Provencale tomato sauce on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been restocking my pantry with tomato puree, a simple base of crushed canned tomatoes – smooth and chunky – that will serve as a base for stews, sauces, and soups until next year’s crop is upon us. Despite the abundance of fruit on the vine, this has not been as stellar a growing season [...]
Gingered Eggplant, Tomato and Potato Stew with Green Beans
Posted in Eggplant, Potatoes, Tomato, Vegetable gratin, tagged Eggplant tomato potato stew on October 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The aroma and taste of this hauntingly delicious vegetable stew comes from the combination of ginger and tomatoes, punctuated by the deep and lingering spice of fresh cumin. Distantly Indian, simple but complex, and definitely more-ish, this is one of those memorable dishes that certain members of my family request whenever they come for a [...]
October: Salsa – the Last Hurrah and a First Hello
Posted in Preserving, Salsa, Tomato, tagged Canning tomato salsa on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As the growing season moves into its final, coolest stage, the last hurrah of summer vegetables, flowers and herbs beg to be harvested and welcomed to the pantry. Lots of them. I’m like the squirrels scurrying to collect black walnuts fallen from our now-leafless tree and burying them in my freshly planted fall greens (thanks [...]
Summer Salad: Watermelon and Tomatoes with Feta and Mint
Posted in Melon, Salad, Tomato on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a refreshing and delicious salad for this season of plentiful fruit. The tang of the cheese and spark of the mint are great complements to the slices of melon and tomato. I sometimes cut the fruit into chunks as opposed to slices or slabs. I sprinkled the tomatoes with a little salt and [...]
Eggplant and Chickpea Stew with Pomegranate Molasses
Posted in Appetizers, Beans and legumes, Eggplant, Tomato, tagged Cooking with pomegranate molasses on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
August brings not only tomatoes but also a bumper crop of eggplant, not to mention a hankering for tangy food that offsets the heat of the so-called “dog days” of summer. This characterization of our weather is not a pejorative statement about one of our favorite animals, but rather a reflection of the ascendance of [...]
August: Tomato Mania
Posted in Tomato on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our local tomatoes start to ripen en masse just as August arrives. I just hauled home 12 pounds of slicing tomatoes and 2 pounds of cherry tomatoes from our CSA. Walking through the fields, I saw bounteous plum tomatoes that will be ready in a month and cherry tomatoes in weeks. Our home garden [...]
