Baked Tomatoes Gratin
These crunchy-topped tomatoes are a tasty side dish with grilled meats. Fresh tomatoes are always terrific, but this recipe also works well with canned tomatoes during the winter months (see substitution, below).
These crunchy-topped tomatoes are a tasty side dish with grilled meats. Fresh tomatoes are always terrific, but this recipe also works well with canned tomatoes during the winter months (see substitution, below).
Use ripe tomatoes for this soup. At this time of year, hot-house tomatoes are your best bet – the small, sweet "cocktail tomatoes" have good flavour. Adjust the number of hot peppers to your taste.
Peeling and seeding tomatoes may take time, but fresh homemade tomato sauce is worth the effort. Firm, ripe plum tomatoes are the best choice for this sauce, and if you grow them in your garden, even better!
Panade is a savoury bread pudding layered with basil and tomatoes and slow-baked to mellow and condense the tomato essence.
The colour contrast of large red and small yellow tomatoes is striking. However,
red tomatoes in differing sizes is also quite attractive.
Dried tomatoes (not oil-packed) make a tomato sauce mix with a unique flavour that pasta lovers will appreciate. Give the recipe for Double-Tomato Sauce along with the mix.
Dried tomatoes flavourfully dress up basic tomato sauce.
Roasted tomatoes with onion carmelized with balsamic dressing, broiled with cheese.
Bursting with the flavours of summer, bruschetta is a tomato harvest staple. Use your favourite variety of heirloom tomato or a blend of varieties – it's up to you!
Tomatoes come in a rainbow of colours. Follow our suggestions or look to your local market for other varieties, such as dark purple, green-striped zebra or red-and-yellow-striped carnival tomatoes.