Hello everyone,
I would like to ask for your suggestions on what to do with all the tomatoes I am cropping at the moment.
Last year I bottled some but they went off after about 5 weeks (only one bottle was left by then though!) Maybe I didn't do it the right way?
I have 6 punnets lined up in the kitchen already and today came home with 2 carrier bags full!! There are still loads to come yet and I am starting to panic. I can't even give them to my friends because I gave them all plants this year and they are all cropping well too!!
Hi and welcome to A4A.
There is another place to check on this site called recipes. If you look in there there's a recipe for doing sun dried tomato type preserving.
Have a look at that, or post again in there and you may have some luck.
Yep there will be loads in Recipes about bottling your tomatoes. EJ has a good idea which is to make them into sauce with onion, garlic, mushroom, courgette for example (chunky sounds nice) and then you can freeze it and use it as a base for your ratatouille or spag bol etc :)
EJ has put on there also about making passata I think :)
Hi
I've made loads of tomato chutney and tomato chilli jam.
Have fun.
Best having lots than not enough!! cant you take some in work or try selling some to local shops or pubs??
what variaty have you grown?
Thanks for all the replies, will certainly try 'sun-dried' in the oven and passata as I use both in my cooking all the time. In reply to Adam04, I have Moneymakers, Vintage Wine and beefsteak (Beefeater I think!?).
What a great site this is, I can pester you lot now and not have to keep asking the men on my site - most of whom give me the 'you don't want to do it like that!!' lectures!! No they're all diamonds really!!