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13 responses to “Your Favorite Tomato Recipe”

1. Jeanne

   11 July 2023

   Oh I love fresh tomatoes fresh from the garden
   Eaten as is I like to have them with olive oil and oregano drizzled over them and sometimes with feta cheese fresh tomtatoes are pure Heaven as is all home grown food
   I would love to see lots of good recipes on here of what to do with fresh tomatoes
   and a fresh tomatoe sandwich with bacon and lettuce
   Oh I can hardly wait to get fresh new ideas of what to do with fresh tomatoes
   Much love
   Jeanne

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2. Jeanne

   11 July 2023

   Best Ever Tomato
   Soup! Guaranteed. From an Indigo flyer a few years back
   1 Set oven to broil.
   2 Mix tomatoes, onions, garlic, oregano and olive oil in bowl
   with salt & pepper.
   3 Place on baking sheet. Broil for 10 minutes. Rotate tray
   to char mixture.
   GREAT TIP: Fire roasting tomatoes adds smoky flavour
   to soup. If you do not have a grill, place tomatoes under
   oven broiler.
   4 Lower oven to 350˚F. Roast mixture for about 30 minutes.
   5 Add canned tomatoes, broth and basil to pot. Bring to boil
   and simmer. Add oven roasted tomatoes and simmer for
   about 15 minutes.
   6 Roughly puree soup. Let cool slightly, then fully puree.
   7 Roughly chop basil for garnish. Drizzle with olive oil.
   Serves 12
   Preparation: 15 minutes
   Cooking: 55 minutes
   6-8 ripe tomatoes,
   roughly chopped
   2 red onions,
   roughly chopped
   2 garlic cloves,
   roughly chopped
   1 28-ounce can,
   crushed plum tomatoes
   4 cups chicken broth
   3 tbsp olive oil
   1 tbsp dried oregano
   6-8 basil leaves
   (keep some for garnish)
   salt & pepper to taste
   ≧^◡^≦It tastes good!≧^◡^≦

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3. Martina

   11 July 2023

   My Aunty used to make toasted sandwiches with mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato. Sometimes she would add tuna. Dad suggested rubbing a garlic clove on the toasted and buttered bread before adding the usual. It was definitely a game changer. Most of us had to have two sandwiches, so good! Aunty would put sugar on the tomatoes, but that really wasn’t necessary.

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4. g

   11 July 2023

   PICTURE IT PARIS 1981 – fresh out of high school– on a trip to see/be with my then French boyfriend…. his grandmother made us a tomato salad with the best Dijon mustard I had ever had- I will never forget that salad and that hot August late afternoon- I have dreamt of that salad and researched that salad— longed for that salad. With the advent of Facebook many many moons ago, for a hot second, he and I messaged each other and one of the first things I asked him was “Do you have the recipe for you Mamie’s SALAD DE TOMATE?” – I don’t think he had the same recollection of the event as did I. Some years later, on another trip to France , my sister and I were in an outdoor cafe in the south of France and I ordered the salad-it was good-but not even in the same league as that deliciousness enjoyed so many years ago. Maybe it was the boy or the Parisian apartment or everything I was experiencing that summer-maybe it was love-but that salad is legendary in my mind, my memory and my heart-

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5. Maria

   12 July 2023

   I didn’t eat raw tomato until I was over 40! One of my favorite breakfasts is slices of garden tomatoe on a toasted English muffins with olive oil and plentiful salt and fresh pepper.

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6. marilyn

   12 July 2023

   Early in my working career I didn’t want to take sandwiches for lunch; so I would make a salad with sliced tomato topped with tuna, shredded lettuce and an olive on top. I ate that every day for years and loved it. Hummmm! I will have ripe tomatoes in my garden soon. I think I need to make plans for tomato-tuna salads.

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7. Kathie B

   12 July 2023

   Marcella Hazan’s Tomato and Cream Sauce:
   http://kathyredmonsblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/tomato-and-cream-sauce-for-pasta-from.html
   We love it over spinach-and-cheese filled ravioli, and over gnocchi. We make a multiple batch in order to have extra leftover, because the sauce freezes well. Handy to have when there’s not much time to cook.

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8. Kathie B

   12 July 2023

   P.S. Except… depending on the time of year, we use either fresh tomatoes from our garden, or home-canned puréed tomatoes.

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9. Bev S.

   12 July 2023

   One of my favorite recipes to do with cherry tomatoes is to cut them in half and sprinkle with balsamic vinegar. I add a little salt and pepper as well. I think the original recipe also called for capers and fresh basil but honestly, we all just like the tomatoes with a douse of balsamic.

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10. Diogenes

    12 July 2023

    Homegrown tomatoes are always far superior in flavor to the store bought ones, at least here in the States.

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11. Diane B

    12 July 2023

    I wait all year for home grown beefsteak tomatoes to make a “mushy sandwich”. White bread, mayo, two giant slices of tomato, a little salt and pepper. Maybe a slice of Kraft Singles American cheese.
    It just says summer to me!

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12. Stephanie M

    13 July 2023

    The combination of tomatoes, mayonnaise and lettuce between whole wheat bread or rye bread is also very good with a slice of meatloaf and salt and pepper. Yum!

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13. Maudie

    16 July 2023

    My father made us the the same tomato sandwich as your mother’s from the tomatoes in his garden. Still one of the best memories!

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