Tag: tomatoes
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Pasta with Fresh Tomatoes, Basil, Garlic and Cheese
I have lost count of how many times I have made this dish. Sometimes I skip the onions, as I did the other night. Sometimes I use Cheddar cheese and other times Mozzarella. I usually cube the cheese but I had a package of shredded Mozzarella so used that. You could leave out the garlic…
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Gazpacho
It’s summer and the tomatoes are plentiful and good. I have tomatoes on toast for breakfast, sometimes with a scrambled egg but often just plain. I get to walk out and pick the ripest tomatoes for my breakfast, which is about as good as it gets. When the tomatoes become really plentiful, I make gazpacho.…
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Easy Spaghetti Sauce from Canned Tomatoes and Sauce
I love a sauce made from fresh tomatoes as much as anyone, but in the winter… I refuse to buy tomatoes in the winter as they’re so tasteless and of dubious texture. I grow tomatoes in the summer and would rather do without when they’re like cardboard. But canned tomatoes are of decent quality to…
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Marinara Sauce Redux
Again with the tomatoes… This time I started with a recipe from Feed Your Family Fast, Healthy Meals on $10 a Day but roughly tripled it. The colander of tomatoes had been staring at me for a couple of days and more appear daily on the plants! I’ll say up front that it came out…
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Tomatoes for Breakfast
Tomatoes for breakfast are one of my favorite things about summer. I typically have wonderful red ripe tomatoes waiting for me in the garden each morning. If I don’t have any sitting in a bowl on the counter, leftover from the day before, I wander out in the garden after feeding the cats and pick…