Maria, my Facebook buddy, informed me that you can indeed freeze raw whole tomatoes…awesome! I wish I knew this BEFORE picking up my CSA veggie share this week, as there was a “take as many as you can use” box of free “seconds” tomatoes that were bruised or gouged! I didn’t take any because I [...]
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Fresh Roasted Tomatoes with Pasta
I had an amazing dinner tonight! I recently picked up the CSA share for the week and there was an abundance of wonderful tomatoes! I knew I had to roast some for pasta. I sliced the heirloom tomato we received, plus one roma and two slicing tomatoes, and I mixed them in a baking dish [...]
Quinoa Pasta with Raw Tomato Sauce
It’s Raw week over at the “I Heart Cooking Clubs” web site. Raw? Hmm, what kind of inventive dish could I make that’s raw? I launched the Mark Bittman “How To Cook Everything” iPhone app and searched for “raw” – the first recipe that popped up was “Linguine with Raw Tomato Sauce” – oh that [...]
Quinoa Salad with Tomatoes, Feta, Apples & Almonds
UPDATED 2011-06-22: I just made this quinoa salad for a reunion dinner tonight. Quinoa is a very small grain, actually it’s technically not even a grain, it’s a seed, but it’s always lumped into the hearty whole grain category. It’s gluten free and fairly quick to make. It smells earthy when cooking. I found excellent [...]
Recipe – Roasted Tomatoes & Spinach Over Pasta
I love roasted tomatoes. I made them by accident a couple of weeks ago, on top of chicken breast, and ever since, I’ve been dreaming about their delicious flavor. Similar to sun dried tomatoes, but even better! So, I the other night, I roasted a batch, added some pasta with wilted spinach and we had [...]
New Deck Veggie Garden
We went to the local nursery to purchase a tomato plant for our Topsy Turvy Upside-Down Tomato Planter and ended up purchasing an established larger tomato plant in a container for $30. Yes, we have plenty of room to grow veggies normally in soil in our yard, but I thought it would be fun to [...]
One Pot Chili
Easy one pot chili I just threw a bunch of ingredients into my 2 qt cast iron pot: 1/2 pound raw 93% ground beef 1/2 (large) can of Bush baked beans (leftover from the other night) lg can of San Marzano tomatoes Leftover sauteed onions and fennel bunch o’ spices/herbs/peppers I let it simmer in [...]
