Tomato Recipes - The Classics!
In this lens I will round up the usual suspects--classic tomato recipes--as well as dishes using pantry ready canned tomatoes. Over the centuries, tomatoes have been called wolf peaches, love apples and even vegetables, but he tomato is technically a fruit. Whether you stuff them or not, these red beauties are stuffed full of lucky lycopene, considered to be a key player in the prevention of certain types of cancer.
Have You Hugged A Tomato Today?
It's a fact. Tomatoes are good for us. You could eat nearly 47 cherry tomatoes to equal the calories in one Oreo double stuf cookie (except that you would have zero saturated fat, zero trans fat, and zero cholesterol). What's not to love? Tomatoes + Spinach + Blue Cheese = YUM!
Creamed Spinach Stuffed Tomatoes
Ingredients
1 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 boxes chopped frozen spinach, defrosted
A few grates nutmeg
2 large beefsteak tomatoes
1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles
Chopped chives, for garnish
Directions
Place the cream in a small pot and reduce by half by gently simmering 20 minutes.
Heat a medium skillet with olive oil over medium heat, add onions and garlic, season with salt and pepper and saute until translucent, 6 to 7 minutes. Drain the spinach by wringing dry in clean kitchen towel. Separate the spinach with your hands and add to onions and garlic. Season spinach with nutmeg then stir in the reduced cream. Adjust flavor with salt and pepper.
Preheat broiler.
Trim the tops off tomatoes and scoop out the seeds. Stuff tomatoes with creamed spinach and top each with 1/4 cup blue cheese. Broil to brown the cheese. Garnish the tomatoes with chives.
Easy Stuffed Tomatoes
Ready To Burst Tomato Recipes!
The Tomato Festival Cookbook: 150 Recipes that Make the Most of Your Crop of Lush, Vine-Ripened, Sun-Warmed, Fat, Juicy, Ready-to-Burst Heirloom Tomatoes
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Tomatoes: Easy, Delicious Tomato Recipes
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The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit
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100 Greatest Recipes: Tomato: Classic Dishes from Around the World, from Soups, Salads and Salsas to Main Courses and Sides.
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70 Classic Tomato Recipes: Making the Most of Tasty Tomatoes
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Tomato Trivia
- Facing the Fire and Fighting the Good Fight
- Unlike other fruits and vegetables, cooking tomatoes helps cast off cancer-causing free radicals with lucky lycopene.
- Cheap Tomato Halloween Costume
- Turn your kid into a big red tomato with only a sweatshirt, felt and pipe cleaners.
- Five Minute Tomato Sauce Recipe
- Hungry and in a hurry with only six ingredients.
- Toddler Tomato Topper
- Fashion forward tomato fashion has toddlers seeing red.
- Everything You Need To Know About Lycopene
- Lycopene helps to reduce risk of prostrate and cervical cancer.
- Canned Tomato Paste Recipes
- "The freshest ideas in Italian cooking."
Campbell Soup Recipes
Easy Tomato Soup Spice Cake
Ingredients:
1 box (about 18 oz.) spice cake mix
1 can (10 3/4 oz.) Campbell's® Condensed Tomato Soup
1/2 cup water
2 eggs
Cream Cheese Frosting
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and lightly flour two 8" or 9" round cake pans. Mix cake mix, soup, water and eggs. Pour into prepared pans. Bake 25 min. or until done. Cool on wire racks 10 min. Remove from pans and cool completely. Fill and frost with your favorite cream cheese frosting.
Tomato Soup Cakes for the Holidays!
Spiced Tomato Soup Cancakes
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. ground allspice
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1 can (10 3/4 oz.) Campbell's® Condensed Tomato Soup (Regular or 25% Less Sodium)
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
2 eggs
1/4 cup water
Orange icing
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray 7 empty Campbell's® (10 3/4 oz.) soup cans with vegetable cooking spray.
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, allspice, cinnamon, baking soda and cloves in bowl. Add soup, shortening, eggs and water. Beat until mixed, using mixer at low speed. Spoon into prepared cans and place on baking sheet.
Bake 30 min. or until done. Cool in cans on wire racks. Remove cakes from cans.
Drizzle tops or sides of cakes with Orange Icing. Top with orange zest, chopped nuts or red candied cherries cut in "leaves".
Orange Icing: Mix 1 cup confectioners' sugar, 2 tbsp. orange juice and 1 tsp. grated orange rind. For Gift-giving: Leave cakes in cans. Cover cans with wrapping paper. Add pieces of ribbons, gold medallions, holiday stickers, etc. Wrap in plastic wrap and tie with ribbon.
Campbell's Kitchen
Red vintage aprons look great while serving tomatoes!
Jessie Steele Bib Josephine Red and Pink Polka Dot Apron
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 12/22/2009)
Jessie Steele Gigi Red and Cream Damask Apron with Attached Towel
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DII Red and White Polka Dot Hostess Apron
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Jessie Steele Ava Bib Apron, Retro Cherries
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DII Red and Pink Floral Vintage Apron
Amazon Price: $24.99 (as of 12/22/2009)
La Tomatina Tomato Fight
Good tomatoes go bad...real bad
Bunyol is a small Spanish village of some 9000 people whose population swells to some 30,000 on the day of La Tomatina. The actual tomato fight lasts little over an hour and takes place on the last Wednesday in August
The following rules have been set down by the Bunyol Town Council:
The following rules have been set down by the Bunyol Town Council:
1. It is illegal to bring any kind of bottles or other objects that could cause an accident.
2. You must not tear t-shirts.
3. Tomatoes must be crushed before throwing so that they don't hurt anybody.
4. You must be careful to avoid the lorries (trucks) which carry the tomatoes.
5. As soon as you hear the 2nd banger you must stop throwing tomatoes.
Tomato-throwing Festival
Five truckloads of tomatoes were quickly turned into puree in the Tomatina tomato-throwing festival in the town of Bunoi in Spain. Tens of thousands of people took part as plum tomatoes covered walls and bodies to the enjoyment of all concerned. www.itnsource.com Reuters 508310028
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Tomatoes Do It Italian Style...
Giada de Laurentiis
Herb Stuffed Tomatoes
Ingredients
5 beefsteak tomatoes
1 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley leaves
3/4 cup Italian-style bread crumbs
1 cup grated provolone
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon butter, softened
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Cut the tomatoes in half, horizontally. Use a small spoon to gently hollow out the inside of the tomatoes, discarding the seeds and reserving the pulp and being careful not to puncture the outer shell. Chop the reserved pulp and put in a medium bowl. Add the parsley, bread crumbs, cheese, and pepper and mix gently to combine. Place the tomato halves in a buttered casserole dish, and fill with the bread crumb mixture. Drizzle the top of the tomatoes with olive oil. Bake until the tops are browned, about 20 minutes
Tomatoes are Sexy!
Sexy Television Chef Saucy About Canned Tomatoes
"Canned tomatoes are packaged when they're the ripest and the sweetest," she says, "so there's really no reason to go with fresh."
Easy Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
Spicy Tomato Tea
Homemade heath remedies using tomatoes
It works fast (in most cases) and tastes great! These ingredients are well-known serious herbals for their medicinal properties... Used together they do wonders for sinus/ear infections, colds, coughing and sore throat. We've even found it to kill flu germs and strep throat (with no antibiotics).TOMATO TEA RECIPE
2 cups V8 Juice
2-3 cloves Garlic crushed (use more if you can)
2 T Lemon Juice
Hot Sauce (the more the better, so as much as you can handle)
Mix and heat in a pan or in the microwave. Sip slowly and re-warm as needed to get the full effects of the fumes. Let it sit in the back of your throat to bathe it. Suck the fumes through your sinuses and also down into your lungs. Its all natural and healthy, so drink as much of it as you want or need until you are SURE the infection is gone. This is past the time when you "feel better."
recipe courtesy of Handmaiden's Kitchen
Grow Your Own Tomatoes!
Jobe's 6005 Tomato Outdoor Fertilizer Food Spikes, 18-Pack
No fuss fertilizer spikes for growing your own tasty tomatoes.
Amazon Price: $4.99 (as of 12/22/2009)
Felknor Ventures 82506 Topsy Turvy Upside-Down Tomato Planter
Easy tomato planter yields more mouth-watering tomatoes for homemade spaghetti sauces and soups!
Amazon Price: $8.74 (as of 12/22/2009)
Cherry Tomato Recipes
Bacon Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes
1 ½ lbs bacon
½ cup chopped green onions
½ cup mayonnaise
24 cherry tomatoes, stems removed
1. Dice bacon, and fry until crisp. Drain and cool on paper towels.
2. In medium bowl, mix bacon, onions and mayonnaise.
3. Place tomatoes stem side down on cutting board. Cut a thin slice off the bottom. Scoop out pulp with a melon ball scooper. Invert tomatoes on paper towel 30 minutes to drain.
4. Fill tomatoes with bacon mixture. Refrigerate several hours, or overnight.
Yield: 24 appetizers
Photo courtesy of Made by Melissa
Cheap Tomato Seeds
Rainbow Heirloom Mix Tomato 50 Seeds
Amazon Price: $2.49 (as of 12/22/2009)
Italian Grape Tomato 30 Seeds -Soprano Veggie- Heirloom
Amazon Price: $2.97 (as of 12/22/2009)
AeroGarden Cherry Tomato Seed Kit
Amazon Price: $11.95 (as of 12/22/2009)
La Romana Tomatoes Gratin
Sandra Lee
Ingredients4 medium tomatoes, cut in 1/2
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon crushed garlic, (recommended: Christopher Ranch)
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Place tomato halves on foil lined baking sheet and set aside.
In a small bowl, combine melted butter, garlic, and shredded Parmesan.
Season tomato halves with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Spoon the butter and cheese mixture over the tomatoes. Roast tomatoes in preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.
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- Welcome to Squidoo! Your lens is nicely done & blessed by a SquidAngel. I also have the privilege of saying welcome to the Culinary Favorites From A to Z group. Your lens is being featured under T is for Tomatoes. Don't forget to come back and add your lens to the link list so that it will appear on the group page!
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- flighty02 flighty02 Jul 9, 2009 @ 6:24 am
- Lovely lens with some great looking recipes! The tomato soup cake sounds interesting :)
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