5 Things To Do With All Your Garden Tomatoes

In this blog, I’ve only touched on 5 things to do with all of your garden tomatoes. There truly are many more. Its so fun to grow tomatoes! Have you ever found yourself growing so many you’ve exhausted giving them away or got tired of using them in salads? Here are my favorite things to do with those beautiful tomatoes in your garden that you’ve worked so hard at growing! This particular post has the recipe for number 4, but eventually there will be links for recipes for some of these or more.

Number 5 of things to do with all your garden tomatoes: Freeze Tomatoes to Make Sauce Later

Freezing is a super easy idea, to help keep the tomatoes all season long.  The idea is to keep them versatile enough so that you can use them in chili, soups or anything cooked. I like to wash and quarter them. This is great because it is a great opportunity to save seeds! (link later) After you freeze your tomatoes, the skin falls off easily, which is important especially for making recipes such as a homemade tomato sauce.

Number 4: Make a fresh Pico De Gallo

Chopping up tomatoes, cilantro, mango, onions, and jalapeno peppers with a little salt and keep it fresh! It does take a little chopping time, but so worth it.

Number 3: Dehydrated snack

Out of all of the five recipes listed for things to do with all of your garden tomatoes, you will definitely want to try this recipe at least once. These tomatoes will require a dehydrator. I personally own the Excalibur.. With a pinch of salt and italian seasoning, these are not only great on salads but great for just snacking. Kids love them!

Number 2: Dehydrate to make powder for Paste or to snack

Many of you will pass by this, because it is easy and inexpensive enough to just go ahead and buy paste from the store. The process is to slice fresh tomatoes (cherry tomatoes work great too!), sprinkle with your favorite seasoning such as oregano and salt. Then, dehydrate for approximately 4 hours or until try and crispy. Then blend them in a small mixer that powder-izes it. A small coffee grinder or a really good blender works well. Then, the most exciting part is this… 2 tablespoons of powder and 1 tablespoon of water, makes a little bit of paste! No more wasting cans of paste just for a few tablespoons of paste for your favorite recipe. My favorite dehydrator is the Excalibur (as mentioned above). I know many people like the all-in-one toaster ovens with the dehydrating feature in them. This is a great idea, however, dehydrating often takes time. Sometimes it can block a lot of time that you could be using for something else.

Number 1: Ferment cherry tomatoes

My most favorite process of the 5 things to do with all your garden tomatoes, is fermenting. This blog will continually be updating fermented recipes. Fermenting is easy, but takes a little time. With cherry tomatoes specifically, they look pretty in the jar as they are fermenting and you can use a plethora of seasonings to compliment it. The end result? A delightful snack, side dish or salad topping!

By the way, I have since learned about Weck storage jars. I’ve been reading a lot about them, and they are wonderful, pretty, eco-friendly and you don’t have to worry about BPA being in any of the lids.

Enjoy! Above all, eat clean and be thankful!

Equipment list:

Best trimming tool

Weck Jars

Excalibur. dehydrator

Garden Journal

Gardening gloves (these are awesome)

 

Other shopping ideas:

Try these seeds that are non-GMO, heirloom and organic!

Seed pods if you do not want to start in loose dirt

Worm Castings

Another fun garden organizational tool!

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