Help! I am drowning in tomatoes in my own home. My own home where I don’t even grow tomatoes. My own home where I rarely even buy tomatoes at the grocery stores.
Anyone out there who wants fresh fruit and vegetables, become friends with my parents. Apparently their number one goal in retirement is to outgrow the entire small town they live in. Back in July they bombarded me with yellow squash. I love yellow squash, but when I receive 10+ pounds of yellow squash I feel a little overwhelmed. How in the world are B and I suppose to eat 10+ pounds in a week? Sadly, we didn’t accomplish that goal so this time I am coming to the internet for help.
Internet, can you tell me how to use 10+ pounds of tomatoes by Friday?
Ok, so maybe it is not 10+ pounds, but I think it started around there. I added tomatoes to everything I could think of over the weekend.
Anyone have a great recipe or idea to share with me? If you say can them I will ban you from this blog. I don’t can and apparently that is the solution to everything.
I am looking for a great recipe that uses tons of tomatoes. The catch is it has to be fairly easy to make and it can only require ingredients that I can find. Or spell. Am I making this hard enough for you?
Maybe I should just say anyone who wants free homegrown tomatoes, come and get them! I don’t think I will ever figure out what to do with these by Friday.
I know…. lets put them in the tub and wrestle!
OOOORR! we could smear them all over ourselves and run out into the street screaming.
Since my wrestling idea was taken, you could always turn to the less exciting but much more practical canning. I’m not much help. Maybe I’m just jealous since I can’t keep anything except bamboo alive and growing in my house. Do your parents have any gardening secrets they want to share?
There are recipes for tomato cups (like you make a simple filling and then bake that inside the tomatoes). That would use a lot of tomatoes and it would be healthy. I think Rachael Ray has a recipe. Check food network.
Quarter a tomato and place on lettuce and stuff it with tuna or chicken salad…..I have some great salsa recipes…….Don’t can anything if you don’t know how….Salmonella is ugly!
Instead of a Lemonade stand, set up a tomato stand. People love those damn homegrown things. And why the hell didn’t I get any squash? I’m going to have to call and tell your mother that you aren’t sharing well.
Make a HUGE batch of salsa and can them (my friend did this and gave them away as Christmas presents–great gift)
Otherwise, send me your address and I’ll be right over
haha I am no help. Anytime we are given veggies or fruit they end up rotting in our fridge. Great housewife I am. Let us know what you do end up doing!