What are You Eating from the Garden?

Finnie

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Lunch is a tomato sandwich with the last tomato from my neighbor’s garden. Picked weeks ago when it was fully green, and it finally ripened.
I may have been wrong about the last tomato! I just went out and checked the neighbor’s vines (which I’m suprised he hasn’t torn down already) and found all these with potential.
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Hm. Nothing for size reference. They are smaller than they look in that photo.
 

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DW spent the first Fall/Winter that we dehydrated tomato slices eating them as snacks. We did quite a few batches.

The flavor was just fine, however I found them much too coarse for snacking. DW is someone who really likes potato chips but I'm just so-so on them. Now, a tortilla chip with artichoke & jalapeño dip, I like that.

Two years since the tomato dehydrating, she hasn't shown any interest in doing more of them :hu .

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Thanks, @digitS' and @Finnie and @Dahlia !!! :hugs:hugs:hugs
All I know about dehydrating with my family is this:
1) DH is the one who first bought a dehydrator and wanted/has since done beef jerky with it.
2) DH and 2 DD's love beef jerky, me, not so much
3) I was gifted a used cheapo dehydrator about a decade ago, and I burned it up dehydrating hot peppers.
4) I only really used dehydrated peppers and I have an old coffee bean grinder that I use to pulverize them for cooking
5) DH now owns a top of the line dehydrator, an Excalibur with 6 trays and that amount seems to be sufficient for our uses
So, M a y b e,
I need to pulverize them for cooking, OR, rehydrated them in tomato sauces.
Any more thoughts about using them is Greatly Appreciated!!
 

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Now that I have dehydrated 3 1/2 quarts (gave one quart to middle DD) of tomatoes that ripened on my kitchen table for the last month, not exactly sure how to use them. :hu
DH put some on a sandwich recently and like it.
Eldest DD put them on a frozen pizza and baked it and Hate them on that.
Any thoughts?
The best experience I ever had was with sundried tomatoes was sundried tomato & walnut pesto on pasta. I used to cook occasionally in a community setting, and even the many skeptics and uninitiated loved it. I was regularly approached and asked what exactly was in that dish because they liked it so much. There are so many recipes (I never used lemon in mine and lots have that, bleh) but this is a good simple one. And it's such a fast dish!

I remember I liked it so much I'd sneak little spoonfuls of it just to eat straight up, no noodles. 🤫
 

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That sounds really good right now - especially with toasted bread and lots of mayo! 😋
That's exactly what I had for supper, on homemade potato bread. The fruit was picked green but ripened nicely. The variety is Yusupovskiy S. Fergany, and I believe this is the first ripe tomato I ever got from this cultivar.
 

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