Tomato Shrimp Soup
Use ripe tomatoes for this soup. At this time of year, hot-house tomatoes are your best bet – the small, sweet "cocktail tomatoes" have good flavour. Adjust the number of hot peppers to your taste.
Use ripe tomatoes for this soup. At this time of year, hot-house tomatoes are your best bet – the small, sweet "cocktail tomatoes" have good flavour. Adjust the number of hot peppers to your taste.
Peeling and seeding tomatoes may take time, but fresh homemade tomato sauce is worth the effort. Firm, ripe plum tomatoes are the best choice for this sauce, and if you grow them in your garden, even better!
The colour contrast of large red and small yellow tomatoes is striking. However,
red tomatoes in differing sizes is also quite attractive.
Dried tomatoes (not oil-packed) make a tomato sauce mix with a unique flavour that pasta lovers will appreciate. Give the recipe for Double-Tomato Sauce along with the mix.
Bursting with the flavours of summer, bruschetta is a tomato harvest staple. Use your favourite variety of heirloom tomato or a blend of varieties – it's up to you!
Tomatoes come in a rainbow of colours. Follow our suggestions or look to your local market for other varieties, such as dark purple, green-striped zebra or red-and-yellow-striped carnival tomatoes.
Tomatoes in glorious abundance, loaded down on our garden vines and mounded up in big baskets at the store and roadside stands — now is the time to update an old-fashioned skill of canning this precious harvest. Nothing can beat the convenience of tomatoes processed in jars: just season for a side dish, simmer into a sauce, or toss into a soup or stew. Here's how to process a cannerful of tomatoes you'll more than appreciate in February.
These “candied” tomatoes are the perfect condiment for just about any sandwich.
Take full advantage of our short but sweet tomato season. Great as a robust side dish for grilled meat, poultry or fish, juicy tomatoes, especially prepared as we have here, can also be the main component of a vegetarian meal.
