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What shall I do with last year's tomatoes?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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I was thinking of long slow roast in the oven. Should I take the skins off before or after? They're all cherries.
Has anyone got any better ideas?
I'm expecting a glut this year so I'd better use up last year's😕
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Gazpacho 😋 

    Then you can have it iced on a warm day or heated up (with a dash of Tabasco 😎) on a cooler day ...and it freezes 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Last year's??? Are these in the freezer? I would just cook them down to make passata and sieve out the skins.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Fasolakia!
    When the glut of tomatoes and beans arrives I make lots of it to freeze.
    Basically it's a bean and tomato stew.

    Fry sliced onions and garlic until tender
    Add a load of tomatoes and some herbs, and let them mush up for a while
    Squeeze in lots of beans (I use runners [cut] and dwarf French [whole]) and just let it all simmer gently for 45-60 mins then season
    Delish

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hubby makes a mean tomato and chili relish
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Last year I made lots of chilli jam which requires a lot of tomatoes and I mage passata by the bucket load and stored it in sealed jars to use in soups, Bolognese and other sauces and casseroles.   No peeling, just blitzing in the processor.

    We also had fresh tomatoes in salads, tarts, baked with onions and red peppers and sausages and in Tuscan panzanella which is just luscious.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hostafan1 said:
    Hubby makes a mean tomato and chili relish
    😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Thanks everyone, some great ideas. I think I've been a bit precious about them and was saving them for something special. Id better get them shifted.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Anything you make with homegrown tomatoes makes the meal special 🍅 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    So true Dove.
    A nice pork chop with my frozen Fasolakia in the depths of winter takes me right back to the smell of picking them in my greenhouse in the summer

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Gotta love a proper pork chop (I’m a Suffolk Pig Farmer’s daughter 🍽) 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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