As
the tomato season ends and the chilly weather creeps back in to the hills, we found ourselves with baskets full of green tommies.
Not exact matches
The debut
season of «The
End of the F — ing World» earned laudatory reviews and a 98 % «Fresh» rating on Rotten
Tomatoes.
The kids are back in school and summer is winding down now, but we are still taking advantage of the last ears of local corn and the
end of
tomato season in our garden.
The summer's unusual heat and abundance of hungry insects had promised an iffy
tomato season anyway, but, needless to say, by the
end of September, it was clear I would miss out on my yearly homegrown
tomato activities: no weekends of steamy kitchen windows with boiling pots of canned sauce featuring my prized Cherokee Purples; no homemade, slow - simmered San Marzano
tomato paste; no sheet pans lining the counters with roasted black cherry
tomatoes (the best
tomato flavor on this earth, ever).
The
end of
tomato season is always a sad one for me.
If you
end up with a shipload of green
tomatoes at the
end of the
season, you will be looking for creative ways to cook them up.
With summer coming to a close, heirloom
tomatoes, fresh corn, and peaches are slowly going out of
season, and what better way to celebrate them before summer
ends then a nice vibrant raw salad.
Pair incoming fall produce like spaghetti squash with
end of summer
tomatoes and basil for terrific in - between
season meals.
If you're like me, and you've been searching for savory recipes for your green, unripe,
end - of -
season tomatoes that don't involve frying or pickling, you've probably realized they're few and far between.
Other odds and
ends — all in very small amounts of 2 to 4 tablespoons — in addition to the refried beans, Mexican rice, eggplant, tortillas, and grilled bread included a more risotto - like rice, caramelized onions (sort of fajita style), bronzed carrots (slices of carrot roasted with blackening
seasoning and brown sugar), green beans cooked with
tomatoes and onion, very thick pureed white bean soup, about 5 sweet potato fries, a couple of artichoke hearts, a dab of roasted red peppers, and half of a veggie burger made with black beans and corn.
We have a few more on the plants that are green so we might get a couple more this
season, but I'm so sad that
tomato season is coming to an
end!
The
end result is a nice mix of chicken with some vitamin - packed
tomatoes and peppers, as well as
seasoning and spices.
At the
end of a busy week of recipe testing, my refrigerator was crammed with batches of an eggplant -
tomato pasta dish and various versions of caramelized onions
seasoned with fennel seeds and black olives.
Tomato season is coming to an
end so I have to resort to the cans.
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons cup peanut, grapeseed or other high - heat oil, divided usage (plus more as needed) 1/2 pound chicken, cut into small pieces (I used Quorn tenders) 8 ounces, fideo pasta or angel hair pasta broken into 2 ″ pieces 1 medium onion, diced 1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced 1 green bell pepper, seeded and diced 1 handful sugar snap peas, strings and both
ends removed, cut into 1 ″ pieces (optional, but great for Spring) 1 tablespoon sweet paprika 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 large pinch saffron threads, crumbled 2 cups broth or stock (I used 1 cup vegetable, 1 cup clam juice) 1/2 pound shrimp, deveined and peeled 1/2 pound bay scallops, rinsed and patted dry with a paper towel 1 (15 ounce) can crushed or petite diced
tomatoes 1/4 cup brandy or cognac 1/2 of a fresh lemon extra sea salt, as needed for
seasoning
Delicate shiitake mushrooms and creamy roasted kabocha squash swim in a celery - infused
tomato broth, spiced generously with Old Bay
seasoning — with a heaping of cilantro stirred in right at the
end.
I made these last fall when I had a lot of
end - of -
season tomatoes that weren't going to have time to ripen on the vine.
Tomatoes and Jacobsen salt: good way to
end the
season.»
It's nearing the
end of
tomato season and what better way to savor summer's harvest than a bacon, lettuce and
tomato sandwich.
As a side note, a friend with a huge garden makes the same salsa at the
end of the
season with all of her green
tomatoes!
They are not always in
season, and it seems as there are precious few things more expensive than out of
season organic
tomatoes so I usually
end up using canned organic
tomatoes and
tomato paste.
I still have a few garden cherry
tomatoes sitting on my table — picked green at the
end of the
season.
Then plant another crop towards the
end of the
season when the
tomato plants are on their last leg.