what can i do with fresh tomatoes

What food can I eat to replace Tomatoes?

Tips for the Meat and Vegetables

• Add extra ground beef. ...
• If you want vegetarian chili without tomatoes, then use oil in place of the fat ground beef would create.
• If you are using low-fat ground turkey, chicken, or pork, likewise add a little oil.
• Add sliced green pepper if you wish and cook until it is soft to replicate the texture of tomatoes.

What to do with too many Tomatoes?

What To Do With Too Many Tomatoes?

• Raw. RInse, take a bite and enjoy! BLT – Homemade oatmeal bread, mayo, fresh lettuce, crisp bacon and in season tomatoes.
• Cooked. Eggplant, tomato, caper sauce over pasta. ...
• Tomatoes onions and peppers. Tomatoes onions and peppers is comfort food in my house. ...
• Ingredients. Only three ingredients. ...
• Preparation. Most time consuming part – chopping the tomatoes. ...

What is good substitute for Tomatoes?

What to Substitute for Sun-dried Tomatoes

1. Canned Tomatoes. If you do not have sun-dried tomatoes on hand, but enjoy the taste of tomatoes, then any canned tomatoes are the best replacement option.
2. Roasted Red Peppers. Roasted red peppers are an excellent ingredient to interchange with sun-dried tomatoes. ...
3. Tamarind Paste. ...
4. Fresh Tomatoes. ...
5. Pecans. ...
6. Pickled Carrots. ...
7. Mild Sweet Cherry Peppers. ...

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How to keep Tomatos fresh and ripe?

• Cut and remove the stem of the tomato.
• Place the tomatoes in boiling water for 1 minute. This will help the peel come off easier.
• Peel the tomatoes, place them on a baking sheet, and toss them in the freezer.
• Remove the frozen tomatoes from the baking sheet and transfer to a zip bag or airtight container and freeze.

“What The Heck Am I Gonna Do With All These Tomatoes?”

Too many tomatoes. Not a bad problem to have, actually. But it can be daunting to find ideas on how to use them all.

Too Many Tomatoes? Use Them as A Skin Cleanser

Did you know you could clean your face with a tomato? YES, it’s true! (Check out this line of tomato facial products :)) The acids in tomato juice...

Make Your Own Pasta Sauce

Here’s a great homemade pasta sauce recipe you can make using fresh tomatoes. The recipe calls for five pounds of fresh tomatoes, perfect for when...

Tomato Basil Garlic Butter

What’s great about making flavored butter is that you can easily freeze it for another time. So you can make large batches and have it available al...

Growing Tomatoes & Using Ripe Tomatoes

If there’s one plant I am super proud of growing in my garden, it’s tomatoes. I start the plants inside the house during the cold winter months, I grow lots of tomatoes and then get to eat and share lots of tomatoes starting June all through September. Sometimes, if the weather stays good, even in October.

How To Store Ripe Tomatoes

If you have a lot of tomatoes, go through them, see whether there are bad ones, or tomatoes that are too ripe. This way you can decide which tomatoes will be refrigerated, and which will stay at room temperature.

Fresh Tomato Salad Recipes

The first thing that pops into my mind, when I think of recipes with tomatoes is: SALAD. Here are some of my favorite tomato salad recipes that are super quick and easy.

Quick One-Pan Fresh Tomato Dinner Recipes

Sometimes, well most times, you want to have a healthy and delicious dinner ready in no time. Enter these quick and easy healthy one-pan fresh tomato dinner ideas – all ready in under 30 minutes, all taste amazing.

Fresh Tomato Pizza And Pasta Recipes

Now we’re talking. Using fresh tomatoes for two of my favorite things: pizza and pasta is probably my favorite way to eat ripe tomatoes. Here are just a few of my favorite recipes.

How To Make The Best Fresh Tomato Sauce

One of my favorite things to do when I have many ripe and fresh tomatoes is a simple fresh tomato sauce. You make it by washing and roughly chopping some tomatoes (let’s say 2).

More Things To Do With Fresh Tomatoes

If you don’t want to eat your tomatoes within the next weeks, there are some ways you can preserve them and their sweet fresh flavor for months, even a year. Some of my favorite ways to preserve tomatoes include freezing tomatoes (I blend them up before, but you can also freeze whole tomatoes), drying tomatoes or canning tomatoes.

Summertime means red, ripe tomatoes and these fresh tomato recipes are the perfect way to take advantage of that bountiful crop

Summertime means red, ripe tomatoes and these fresh tomato recipes are the perfect way to take advantage of that bountiful crop.

Spaghetti Squash Meatball Casserole

One of our favorite comfort-food dinners is spaghetti and meatballs. We're crazy about this lighter, healthier version that features so many veggies. It has the same beloved flavors with more nutritious ingredients! —Courtney Stultz, Weir, Kansas

Air-Fryer Green Tomato BLT

I have used this "frying" method with eggplant slices for years and decided to try it for my green tomatoes. It worked! Now my family loves them in BLTs. —Jolene Martinelli, Derry, New Hampshire

Spinach Tomato Burgers

Every Friday night is burger night at our house. The tomatoes add fresh flavor and the cool spinach dip brings it all together. We often skip the buns and serve these over a bed of grilled cabbage. —Courtney Stultz, Weir, Kansas

Garden Tomato Salad

For as long as I can remember, Mom made a salad of tomatoes and cucumbers. Now I make it whenever beautiful tomatoes are in reach. —Shannon Arthur, Upper Arlington, Ohio

Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato Pizza

I combine two all-time favorites in this recipe: pizza and BLT sandwiches. I brought this fun mashup to a ladies lunch and was met with lots of oohs and aahs. —Bonnie Hawkins, Elkhorn, Wisconsin

Cucumber-Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes

Besides being tasty, these little tomato poppers are extra awesome because you can make them ahead of time. At parties, I often triple the recipe because they disappear fast. —Christi Martin, Elko, Nevada

1. Eat them whole

Really! Vine ripened tomatoes are delicious all on their own. You can take a big bite out of one like an apple, or do what my mom always does: slice the tomato into thick slices and sprinkle with salt. Yum!

2. Fresh salsa

I love Mexican food. When it’s served with fresh salsa I really can’t resist. There’s something about the fresh ingredients in uncooked salsa that makes it such a treat for the summer. Here are a few recipes to try:

3. Cooked salsa

Though fresh salsa is my favorite, it’s only available in the summer, and I like salsa all year round. Canning your own salsa is a great way to have quality salsa through the winter. Check out these recipes:

4. Too many tomatoes? Use them as a skin cleanser

Did you know you could clean your face with a tomato? YES, it’s true! (Check out this line of tomato facial products :)) The acids in tomato juice are great for softening and cleaning skin, while the lycopene helps eliminate free radicals.

5. Sunburn relief

Tomatoes are also wonderful at soothing sunburn. If your sunburn is recent and not blistering or peeling, rubbing a slice of tomato on it can lessen the redness. According to this study, eating tomatoes can increase your skin’s natural sun protection. One more reason to eat those beauties!

6. Make your own pasta sauce

Here’s a great homemade pasta sauce recipe you can make using fresh tomatoes. The recipe calls for five pounds of fresh tomatoes, perfect for when you have too many tomatoes!

7. Tomato sandwiches

I could care less about including yucky winter tomatoes on my sandwiches, but when I’ve got too many tomatoes ripening in the summer, I can’t get enough. Add tomatoes to any sandwich for a burst of flavor, or simply slather some mayo and tomato slices between two pieces of fresh baked bread. Yum!

What Can I Do With All These Fresh Tomatoes From My Garden?

Luckily, there are so many recipes out there that can put those fresh garden tomatoes to use. They are used in just about every different kind of cooking you can think of, but it’s the basic recipes that will help you preserve and enjoy your tomatoes for months to come that we love the most. Here are three of our favorite garden tomato recipes!

Spaghetti Sauce With Garden Tomatoes

Making tomato sauce isn’t difficult, but it can be a bit labor-intensive, particularly if you want to make a large enough volume to can and preserve over the winter season. Depending on how much sauce you want to end up with, you can either divide or multiply the number of garden tomatoes and other ingredients in this recipe.

Garden Fresh Tomato Soup

Tomato soup is one of the best recipes to use up those garden tomatoes, similar to the spaghetti sauce; it can be frozen and kept for a cold winter’s day! It’s simple, straightforward, delicious, and you can use all different varieties of tomatoes to make it.

Rescuing Imperfect Tomatoes

Tomatoes do not need to be those perfect, round (and often tasteless) specimens you find in the grocery store. Don’t throw a tomato because it’s “wrinkly” or a weird shape.

Encourage Ripening

Tomatoes will keep ripening on the vine until a freeze. If you get a local warning for an overnight freeze, pick your green tomatoes and bring them in. To accelerate ripening on the vine, reduce watering, pick off extra blossoms, harvest smaller fruit, and shift the roots a bit to encourage tomatoes to ripen.

Roasting Tomatoes

After a very wet summer, the ripening cherry tomatoes greedily sucked up all the water and started to spilt. We couldn’t eat them all at once and did not want a single one to go to waste.

What Else To Do With Tomatoes

Drying: You can dry tomatoes in a dehydrator or in the sun if you have acces to a dry, south-facing location.

Have a Tomato Day!

Enjoy this video by a family friend. Every year, they have a “Tomato Day” to process the season’s tomato harvest. It’s the entire family working together—wife, husband, daughters, and husbands participating.

Stuffed Tomatoes

We were given seeds of an unnamed experimental hybrid tomato to try. It has given us lots of the most perfect looking, round, red tomatoes. Unfortunately, they are hard as a rock even when dead ripe and, compared to the heirlooms we grow, they have no flavor. That said, they are perfect for stuffing, holding their shape even when baked for an hour.

1. Eat them fresh, straight from the vine

Eating fresh tomatoes straight from the vine is the best: sweet, juicy, and warmed up by the sun is one of my favorite ways to eat tomatoes.

2. Make tomato salad

You can also make delicious salads, where you mix them up with cucumbers, onions, and some herbs. I love adding a bit of parsley and dill, but you can add other herbs too: thyme, basil, chives, or tarragon.

3. Tomato sandwiches are delicious

Summers are busy for us gardeners, so an easy to prepare lunch is important. Some of your meatier tomatoes are perfect for tomato sandwiches: just make sure to have some crusty bread on hand. Add some mayo, avocado, basil, and onions to your ripe tomatoes, and you got a delicious lunch in minutes.

4. Cook some homemade tomato soup

We LOVE creamy tomato soup! It’s so easy to make: throw your veggies in the pot, roughly chopped, boil for about 20 minutes, and then give it a twirl in your food processor or blender: YUM!

5. Juice them

Do you buy V8 at the store? Take a break from that in the summer and make your own tomato juice. It’s simple to make: just wash your tomatoes, and throw them in the blender with some celery leaves, a bit of onion, salt, pepper, and a spicy pepper (if you like spicy) and blend for 30 seconds: done!

6. Make fresh salsa

With just a few ingredients you’re sure to have in your fridge or pantry, you can make a yummy fresh salsa. Eat it with chips, or on tacos. Mmmm… sounds so good!

7. Home-canned salsa

Fresh salsa is great, but so is cooked salsa. Make some and put it away for winter: you’ll love it, not only with chips but also with warm homemade bread, pita, slathered on your fried eggs or baked fish, etc. Let your imagination run with it and try a few new things with your homemade salsa.