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August means the start of tomatoes declares Michelle at Je Mange La Ville. Consequently, seasonal eaters are celebrating this late summer fruit all over the web. Granitas, sandwiches, pastas, salads and more. Even a food fight. There is something tomato here for everyone...
Chilled:
Maki at I was Just Really Very Hungry makes tomato granita.
City Mama at Family Food whips up an Icy Cold Tomato Soup.
Cookie Crumb at I'm Mad and I Eat reminds us to defrost any of last year's tomato crop still lurking in the freezer ready to make way for the new harvest.
Pasta:
Laura Rebecca's Kitchen gives us a simple Pasta with Fresh Tomato Sauce.
As well as tomato, Catherine of Albion Cooks adds some zucchini and pesto to her spaghetti.
Boo_licious from Maki Maki makes a cooked tomato sauce for her linguine.
Tarts:
Even before war broke out in the Lebanon, Kady of Gourmetish was sending out a strong message with her Tomato Peace Tart.
Amanda & Debbie at Exclusively Food baked a beautiful tart with a soft, cheesy tomato filling and a crispy, flaky pastry base.
Salads:
Ms_Stevi at Bread and Butter is making my mouth water with a open sandwich piled high with a Greek dish for beginners: Dakos salad.
Proponent of the South Beach Diet, fellow Blogher contributing Editor, Kalyn, has featured not one but two different tomato and garbanzo beans on her Kitchen blog recently.
Another Blogher CE, Elise, from Simply Recipes, is also in the mood for garbanzos. She features a Chickpea and Tomato salad on her blog.
Barbara Fisher of Tigers and Strawberries takes a fresh direction by adding non-traditional Thai flavours to her delicious-sounding tomato salad.
Classic:
Back to Elise for her take on the tomato, basil and tomato salad. Her angle? She uses heirloom tomatoes.
Michelle at Je Mange La Ville uses home-grown Roma tomatoes for her rendition.
Yoony at Immaeatchu, on the other hand, swaps out the mozarella for a soft pillowy burrata.
Grow Your Own:
I have nothing but admiration for those bloggers with green fingers and thumbs.
Farmgirl celebrates the first tomatoes of the season by making Summer in a Bowl.
Green Zebra or orange? Find out over at The Restaurant Widow.
Over at The Ethicurean, Miss Steak reflects on the eagerness with which she visited her grandmother's kitchen garden. She made the trip, thinking it would make excellent material for her new blogging endeavour. But when she left, disappointed in the lack of flavour in the home-grown tomatoes, she realised that having spent time with her family was far more important than the story itself.
Cookie Crumb bemoans the state of her very green tomatoes. She wonders if they might ripen by January? Maybe she shouldn't have defrosted last year's bounty so fast?!
Food Fight:
If nothing ever becomes of Cookie Crumb's fruit, maybe she can take it out on them by throwing them at something instead.
A food fight has already started over at The Metrocurean.
Kung Foodie even has video evidence to prove it.
Duck! There is a tomato coming your way...
Blogher Contributing Editor:
Sam Breach likes her tomatoes classic, in a bread salad or even less traditionally prepared over at Becks & Posh.
Comments
Whoah, Sam!!
By: Alanna Kellogg Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoWhat a LIST!! I'm on my way to get tomatoes, NOW!
I have been doing panzanella for a couple of weeks now. And when my Dad was here over the weekend, I served tomatoes at five out of eight meals, skipping only the breakfasts!
PS It's not quite time yet but soon the meaty tomatoes will arrive, the ones for slow roasting. None of this ONE hour of slow roasting ... I tested 15 batches last year and learned that tomatoes need TEN to TWELVE hours in a slow oven to get the full flavor.
Alanna Kellogg, The Veggie Evangelist
Bravo Sam!
By: Kalyn Denny Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoBravo Sam! What a great tomato roundup. I think I might link to it for my garden update this weekend so people can come here and read it.
Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen
Thanks, ladies
By: sam breach Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoI have been trying to collect the material for a couple of weeks. I thought it was finally time to publish else I would have conceivably been rounding up tomato posts for ever!
sam
Sam, you outdid yourself!
By: Elise Bauer Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoWow is right. This is a great post, and just in time for the tomato season. I picked 2 of the 4 tomatoes on my one heirloom tomato plant yesterday. Can't wait to eat them. Kalyn, I hear, has over 300 tomatoes growing on her 13 plants. Yikes.
Elise Bauer
Simply Recipes
Learning Movable Type
I say ToMAAAAAYYYto
By: maki Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoI wonder when you actually sleep Sam... :o
Makiko Itoh who is just hungry
Funniest audition story ever...
By: Elisa Camahort Posted: 1 year 41 weeks ago...involves the poor young woman who sang the entire "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" without, apparently getting that the words were supposed to be pronounced *differently.*
You say to-may-to, I say to-may-to
You say po-tay-to, I say po-tay-to
To-may-to, to-may-to
Po-tay-to, po-tay-to
Let's call the whole thing off!
And so on.
Totally off-topic, I know, but one of my favorite stories ever.
Elisa Camahort
BlogHer and Worker Bees
elisa@blogher.org/elisa@workerbees.biz
but To-MAY-to:
By: sam breach Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agodoesn't include the deep, satisfied sigh... *aaahhhhhh!" that tomatoes definitely deserve!
sam
My mouth is WATERING. I am
By: CityMama Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoMy mouth is WATERING. I am going to need a sherpa to help me carry tomatoes home from the farmer's market on Thursday. Fabulous post!!!
Stefania Pomponi Butler
Contributing Editor, Arts & Entertainment, BlogHer
I blog:
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Tomato Love
By: Kalyn Denny Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoIt's true, I do have hundreds of tomatoes. I'm going to make roasted tomatoes like crazy in a few weeks. I even have some heirloom brandywine tomatoes (3 plants, one is a volunteer) and some yellow ones. The yellow Lemon Boy tomatoes are really good.
However, I also have tons of WEEDS in my garden. I need to spend about 3 days weeding and trimming everywhere in my yard. Some of my herbs are going to seed, it's been so long since I've trimmed them.
Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen
yum
By: erinskitchen Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoElisa, you made me laugh...
Sam, great roundup--can't wait to get to the farmers' market this weekend. I know many hate her, but in Rachael Ray's Everyday magazine this month she has a bunch of yummy sounding roasted tomato recipes, including a roasted tomato and chickpea curry I want to try.
Reads tomato posts, runs to
By: debra roby Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoReads tomato posts, runs to check green tomatoes on the vine. Reads more posts, checks. still green tomatoes...
Waahh!
Debra
A Stitch In Time
Deb's Daily Distractions
Mmm
By: JennaHatfield Posted: 1 year 41 weeks agoI just slice some tomatoes, stick 'em on toast and eat a tomato sandwich. Or twelve. But all of this looks even yummier.
Family Living; Hatfield Style
Jenna
Sliced Tomato Heaven
By: Cookiecrumb Posted: 1 year 40 weeks agoCranky makes the BEST quickie lunch: Toast smeared with a teeny dab of mustard, topped with tomato slices and good cheese, melted under the broiler. We call 'em Cheese Dreams, but the dreaminess is all about the tomatoes, of course.
(My tomatoes died, BTW. I am holding up OK. Wahh.)