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How to Slow-Roast Tomatoes
Published on 2010-08-11 08:22:01
Image via Wikipedia Here’s another idea if you have an excess of tomatoes from the garden: slow-roast them. The results are similar to sun-dried tomatoes: sweet, chewy, with an intense, sunny flavor. I like to eat them on bruschetta with a soft cheese, but they are also good tossed into pasta dishes and casseroles. They [...]
How to Puree Tomatoes
Published on 2010-08-06 14:31:39
Image via Wikipedia It seems we either have too few tomatoes (most of the time) or too many (right now). When we have too many, it is worth taking an hour or so to puree those tomatoes and preserve them in some manner. If you are adept at canning, the tomato puree can be canned, [...]
How to choose cantaloupes
Published on 2010-08-06 07:59:50
I am patiently letting a cantaloupe ripen on the vine right now. Every day or so, I go out to the garden and tug gently on it in hopes that it will slip into my hands so I can have it for breakfast. But not yet, not yet. I have already picked one cantaloupe, but [...]
