Dehydrated tomatoes take up little cupboard space, preparing them requires minimal hands-on work and preserving them helps reduce wasted food.
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How to Blanch and Peel Tomatoes and Make Tomato Skin Powder

To render velvety smooth sauces, blanch and peel tomatoes. But don’t worry! The skins need not go to waste. Turn them into tomato powder.
How to Make Tomato Purée from Fresh Tomatoes

Slow cook fresh tomatoes, process them and cook them down for tomato purée. Freeze it to make tomato sauce, pizza sauce and more in winter.
Golveda Ko Achaar (Tomato Sauce) from Vegan Nepal’s New Cookbook

This addictive Nepali tomato pickle recipe cooks in a mere 15 minutes. Serve it with curry, pasta, tacos, pizza and more.
Easy Roasted Salsa: Charlotte’s Non-Recipe Recipe Brings Out the Flavor

In a hurry for a get-together with friends, my daughter Charlotte quickly made this flavorful roasted salsa, using fresh seasonal ingredients.
Easy 2-Ingredient No-Cook Cultured Tomato Paste and Juice

This cultured tomato paste and bonus tomato juice requires zero energy to make and won’t heat up your kitchen on a hot day.
Tomato Paste from Scratch

I finally made tomato paste and it tastes amazing. This has been on my to-do, to-cook, to-blog list since I started blogging. Like many things I now make from scratch, I will never be able to eat store-bought tomato paste again because homemade tastes incredible. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I followed the recipe […]
Quick Tomato Sauce (If You Plan Ahead…)

Yes, another tomato post. Think of it as my way of reminding you of the time of year. When we first kicked processed food, we struggled to replace canned tomatoes—whole tomatoes, tomato sauce and tomato paste. I used to cook vats of chili and also vats of bolognese sauce to serve with pasta one night […]
August Is the Reddest Month

Updated 07/07/22 If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and have planted a garden, you may have begun to experience what-am-I-going-to-do-with-this-glut-of-tomatoes syndrome. Mild symptoms often begin in early August and quickly intensify to the critical stage. The following ideas will help alleviate and, in some instances, depending on the harvest and the number of plants you […]