Paste Tomato

[897tgigvib]

Costoluto Genovese is definitely one of the prettiest tomatoes there is! Also tasty, meaty, and also juicy. They might be a good one for that way of drying down, and i bet they make great tomato juice! probably ketchup too!

 

[journey11]

Seedcrazy, that sounds really good. I bet they'd be tasty tossed in pasta salads.

Jared, I think halves and quarters would do the trick. Sorry I can't remember exactly where I read it! But there wasn't very much to it anyway...just roast, then make into paste or spaghetti sauce. I think the purpose was to reduce the water content, rather than stirring and simmering them on the stove for so long. I will try it this year and report back!

 

[Jared77]

Please do. I keep forgetting to ask my wife how she did it.

OR........*got my brain going again* would be to roast them at a lower temp like you mentioned Journey to reduce the moisture content and then crank up it up under the broiler for a few minutes to char the skins. Shouldn't take long to do that if they already lost a good amount of their moisture content. Then into the food processor to get the chop/consistency needed for sauce, chili base, or salsa, etc then add the other ingredients while it heats on the stove for a few to fuse the flavors together. Then into jars and water bath?

I'm just thinking out loud here....what do you think?

 

[barefootgardener]

Hi, Costoluto Genovese, while not a paste, is a wonderful tomato for cooking down into sauce. I have been growing it for a number of years now, and it always does well for me in my zone 4 garden. It is extrememly productive and a very pretty, medium, fluted tomato tastes great also. It is a bit seedy though, that does not bother me..

Coustrolee is large and fluted, and production is good for a large tomato. It is a bit juicy also but cooks down well.

Pantano Romanesco is another fav. I have grown for years. It is a beautiful medium/large red tomato, slightly ribbed. and has a well balanced flavor of acid/sweet tomato taste..Very productive. Slightly juicy. Love it for tomato juice also.

Amish Paste: Grown it for years, Not a true paste, but if you get the original seeds for the real AP..It is still large and blocky, and meaty with a bit of juice to it. Flavor is excellent. Very productive for me.. I saved seeds for years of the original Amish paste, but unfortunately, had a mishap with a lot of my seeds seven years ago..I reordered seeds from BC a few years back, but it is not the same Amish paste i used to grow out. The tomatoes are much smaller and plum shaped..not the same.

Japanese Black Trifelle: very productive, meaty with some juice, excellent flavor

I have grown a large number of heirloom tomatoes for sauce..Sometimes i just mix a bunch of diff. tomatoes and throw them in a pot and cook them down..Sooo good!!

Now for real pastes/plums I have grown: Opalka..Excellent meaty paste variety..
St. Jean De Angeley (Rare French Variety) very meaty and productive..Grew in my GH
Sherrill,
Romeo,
Sarnowski Polish Plum (very productive more elognated shape, rather than plum)
Cow Tit: Shaped like a cows teat
Giant Sicilian Paste: Blocky, meaty and productive
Ludmilla Red Plum: very productive
Lurleys Paste (a garden friend gave me seeds a few years back, who got unnamed seeds in Italy.)
Kenosha Paste: Not a real paste, but shaped like a plum and more juicy, very productive.
Wessells Purple Pride: Paste shape, but a bit more blocky and elognated..Is a red/purple color at the shoulders..Excellent taste and very productive
Jersey Devil, paste shape, slightly elognated, not as productive as I would have liked, prone to some disease mid season
Kukla's Portugese paste: meaty, shaped like a medium plum..Great flavor, avg production..Grown in GH
Carol Chyko's Big paste: Blocky, Blunt shape, meaty interior with right balance of juice..very good, productive, Fruits are around 12 to 16 oz..Shy to set fruit in hot weather..Better with cool nights

I have grown others, but I have a bit of a mind block and would have to check my notes ...

Hearts are also good for cooking down into pastes. They are meaty and most have few seeds..Lot's of good ones around!

Ginny

 

[897tgigvib]

Barefoot, you know your tomatoes!

Congratulations on being able to grow so many kinds in zone 4!

 

[barefootgardener]

Barefoot, you know your tomatoes!

Congratulations on being able to grow so many kinds in zone 4!

Thank you marshall..




Costoluto Genovese

 

[897tgigvib]

My Genovese are usually a bit less fluted than yours. I'll put some photos up when I use the other laptop anf transfer them to this one.

 

[digitS']

Ginny's tomato harvest:



http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30197



Steve

 

[barefootgardener]

LOL..Thank's for posting the link Steve. 2010 was a great year for growing my tomatoes. Actually it was my best ever, in the past 22+ years of growing heirlooms. Unfortunately 2012 was a bust for me. The plants in my GH did well, but outside garden was hit hard by drought, hail, disease etc..you name it! It was a big disapointment.. worst year i ever had..Least I still have pictures to go back to to keep me motivated...

Ginny

 

[Mickey328]

We've had such an extraordinarily dry winter that they've announced water restrictions for the coming seasons So, we're already squirreling away water for the garden areas...got 4 55 gal barrels buried that are full and even tho it's not legal, we're gonna capture our rainwater. IMO, that's one of the dumbest laws I've ever seen on the books! Now, if you were going to tarp your entire property and take the water that's one thing, but...all I want to do is capture the water that would normally run off the house and shed and put it ON the dirt...seems like a no-brainer to me...gets more water into the soil, which is where it needs to be, rather than down by the house foundation. In addition to the barrels, I've put a 5 gal bucket in each shower and when we're in there waiting for the water to warm up and while lathering, we direct the spray into the bucket. Couldn't believe the water we'd been just running down the drain perfectly good and "un-used"...works out to about 2 gallons per shower! I can't lift the dang things when they're full, but we have a lot of gallon jugs around so I just fill those from the buckets and stash 'em for using on the house plants and seed starts. I also use it for washing up...just heat some and add cold as needed. I've taken to keeping a plastic dishpan in the sink and capture all that rinsing water...since I'm not sure what all is in it, I dump it in the compost pile.

So, with the restrictions our grass (and there isn't much left) might not do well, but don't really care about it that much. Our garden/food plants should be fine though.