It is time to preserve this year’s tomato harvest every which way possible. Freeze, can, dehydrate, make salsa, ketchup, soup – you name it, you will be glad you did come January!
My favorite way to put up tomatoes for year-round eating also happens to be the easiest: Slow Roasting! Here are some simple instructions from Gourmet Magazine, August 2009.
The recipe calls for plum tomatoes, but we use any kind of tomato – heirlooms of all colors, shapes, and sizes, plums, paste types, cherries, etc. They all cook down into delicious roasted tomato goodness, with a ridiculous amount of flavor. We pack our much-condensed roasted tomatoes into containers of various sizes and store them in the freezer, to be enjoyed all winter long.
Slow-Roasted Tomatoes
4 pounds plum tomatoes, halved lengthwise
6 garlic cloves, minced
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
pans. Combine garlic and oil and spoon over tomatoes. Season tomatoes
with salt and pepper and roast in oven 6 to 8 hours (tomatoes will be
greatly reduced in size but still moist). Cool.
Visit the Farm Store this weekend to stock up on tomatoes for your food preservation projects! We’re open Saturday and Sunday, 10am – 6pm.