Posted: 8/23/2016 6:52:23 PM EDT
| I have quite a fex extra tomatoes this year. Not enough for canning but enough to maybe store some how. What do you all do with extra tomatoes? I''ve given away all I could. |
I just threw out probably 10 lbs 
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eat them. Make tomato sauce and freeze or can it. Put them in salads, put them on burgers, make paste out of them, whatever you can think of :). Do you freeze your tomatoes?I have to take the skins off, right? I've never frozen them raw, their texture gets all weird if I remember right... Probably could still make sauce with them after, I'm not sure. |
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Do you freeze your tomatoes?I have to take the skins off, right? Quoted:
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eat them. Make tomato sauce and freeze or can it. Put them in salads, put them on burgers, make paste out of them, whatever you can think of :). Do you freeze your tomatoes?I have to take the skins off, right? Blanch them in boiling water and skin, bag, freeze.use like any canned tomato. Next year learn to can. I am over run with pears. Bosc And d'anjou the church ladies Have taken 50 lbs and I've another 150# on the tree. So, learning to can goes to Top of my list this year. |
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Blanch them in boiling water and skin, bag, freeze.use like any canned tomato. Next year learn to can. I am over run with pears. Bosc And d'anjou the church ladies Have taken 50 lbs and I've another 150# on the tree. So, learning to can goes to Top of my list this year. Quoted:
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eat them. Make tomato sauce and freeze or can it. Put them in salads, put them on burgers, make paste out of them, whatever you can think of :). Do you freeze your tomatoes?I have to take the skins off, right? Blanch them in boiling water and skin, bag, freeze.use like any canned tomato. Next year learn to can. I am over run with pears. Bosc And d'anjou the church ladies Have taken 50 lbs and I've another 150# on the tree. So, learning to can goes to Top of my list this year. I used to help my m,other can tomatoes. Thinking back it was quite a bit if work but well work it when you ate them. 
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When all else fails, make 'Mater and Basil soup with chives.
Boil 'em, skin 'em after a dunk in cold water, back in the pot with a couple handfulls of fresh Basil, and chives. Boil 'em for 30 min. and run through the mater press. Freeze in plastic containers for a cold and bleak winter day, or use as a base for marinara. No such thing as "Excess" Maters. 
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| I usually have this problem right when I don't have time to deal with a lot of hassle. I just wash them, slice them in half inch rounds (doesn't take long), dust them liberally with Italian seasoning and dump them into the dehydrator until crisp. They make a nice savory trail food. |