Slicing tomatoes, onions, assorted sweet peppers, carrots, cherry tomatoes (traded for an additional slicer), and (wait for it)...NEW POTATOES!
I am SO EXCITED for the potatoes! I will probably do something wonderful with them tomorrow - maybe roasted...YUM.
I still have so many onions that I'm going to chop them all up and freeze them. I use a lot of chopped onions when I cook, but right now, I'm not cooking much because it's hot outside, and raw onions and I don't see eye to eye most of the time. So, they will be chopped up and put in cold storage. Sounds like Mafia hit to me.
I also have an abundance of tomatoes from my CSA boxes, PLUS my backyard tomato plants are on the verge of ripening. There are boatloads of huge green tomatoes, but three of them have started to get a little blush to them.
You know what that means.
Soon those plants will bury me in mountains of tomato-ey goodness. I've already been eating tomato sandwiches and Caprese salads (watch for them to be featured on upcoming Wednesdays), but I won't be able to keep up just by doing that.
Most of them will end up canned. Tomatoes are easy to can, and they are pretty in the jars - like red jewels on the shelf. I sometimes have a hard time bringing myself to open them because it seems such a shame to spoil the display, but I manage to overcome my aesthetic sense, raid the larder, and actually USE THEM.
I'll give some away, too. I've already had a couple of requests, so...!
How do you use up a bumper crop of tomatoes? Let me know in the Comments!
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