tomato

Pantry & Spotlight Ingredients

Taken with Tomatoes

by Aimee
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Tomatoes are out in full force. Tomatoes that are full of flavor, have ripened naturally and cost a dime a dozen (almost). Everywhere you look, they are being served up in a myriad of ways. This past weekend at Big Summer Potluck, a food blogging retreat in Pennsylvania, we ate them sliced in a simple [...]

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Dinner

What to Eat on Hot Summer Nights (Recipe: Versatile Black Bean Salad)

by Katie G
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Written by Katie of GoodLife Eats. With temperatures hovering just under 100 degrees F since we returned from our vacation I have decided one thing about meal time: It is simply way too hot to cook right now. But that doesn’t mean I can’t prepare dinner for our family. We still have to eat something. [...]

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Preserving

Preserving Autumn: Tomato Herb Sauce for Freezing

by Elizabeth
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Written by Elizabeth of Guilty Kitchen. When fall hits and you know you’ve got more tomatoes than anyone could ever eat fresh, no matter how many tomato and bocconcini salads, or BLTs, or tomato soup you serve, you know it’s time to think about canning or freezing. There is just always going to be an [...]

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Quick Bites

Slow-Roasted Cherry Tomatoes: A Simple Summer Appetizer

by Aimee
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Summer entertaining lends itself so well to simplicity: fresh produce abounds, needing little to no adornment, and the most a host should need to do is wash the produce well and serve. Since everything is so fresh and tasty so why complicate things? One of my favorite summer snacking foods are cherry tomatoes. Fresh from [...]

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Quick Bites

Three 3-Minute Chilled Soups

by Aimee
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I fell in love on my honeymoon. With a cold soup. Yes, I was already head over heels with a tall engineering student, but a chilled Hungarian sour cherry soup, enjoyed on a shady Budapest courtyard with the aforementioned tall student, also captured my heart. That memorable lunch left an impression on me – on [...]

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