{"id":623,"date":"2010-02-02T08:45:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2021-02-08T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:46:27","slug":"how-to-use-up-all-those-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/how-to-use-up-all-those-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use up all those tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Storing tomatoes<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Fully ripe tomatoes can be refrigerated but are best kept at room temperature. Tomatoes stored in the refrigerator tend to lose flavour but will still be edible.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_683\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1040331.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-683\" title=\"Beefsteak tomato\" src=\"http:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1040331-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1040331-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1040331.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beefsteak tomato<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ripe tomatoes<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Salads, especially using different varieties and colours. Try tossing tomato wedges with canned cannellini beans, drained and rinsed, black olives, capers and fresh basil, thyme or oregano with lemon juice and olive oil.<\/li>\n<li>Soups<\/li>\n<li>Sauces -eg. in casseroles, tossed through pasta<\/li>\n<li>Tomato sauce or passata<\/li>\n<li>Salsa is excellent served with tortilla chips or with your favourite Mexican-food recipe.<\/li>\n<li>Slow roasted with a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic. Serve as bruschetta on toasted sourdough with goats cheese or ricotta, fresh basil and cracked black pepper.<\/li>\n<li>Stuffed \u2013 especially cherry tomatoes and served with drinks<\/li>\n<li>Preserves, relishes, chutneys using ripe or green tomatoes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Green tomatoes<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_681\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1040323-e1266760509810.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-681\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-681\" title=\"Green Acid Free tomatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1040323-e1266760509810-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1040323-e1266760509810-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1040323-e1266760509810-757x1024.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Acid Free tomatoes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Don\u2019t wait for them to ripen. Tomatoes are often picked unripe and green and can be crumbed and pan fried or used in pickles, relishes and chutneys and stored in airtight jars so they\u2019re on hand all year long. Or why not try the Green Tomato and Walnut Cake, recipe below.<\/p>\n<p>To ripen green tomatoes put them in a warm spot but not in direct sunlight or place them in a paper bag with a ripe banana, which releases with ethylene gas.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Freezing tomatoes<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If there are just too many tomatoes to use fresh, try freezing. Fresh tomatoes tend to break up after freezing, but frozen tomatoes are perfect for casseroles, soups and sauces.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">RECIPE<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_688\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P10403082.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-688\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-688\" title=\"Green tomatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P10403082-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P10403082-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P10403082.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green tomatoes<\/p><\/div>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Green Tomato &amp; Walnut Cake<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Makes 1 x 20cm round cake<\/p>\n<h4>Ingredients<\/h4>\n<p>1 1\/4 cups sugar<\/p>\n<p>125g butter, melted<\/p>\n<p>2 eggs<\/p>\n<p>1 teaspoon vanilla extract<\/p>\n<p>1 1\/2 cups self raising flour<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 teaspoon baking powder<\/p>\n<p>1 teaspoon cinnamon<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 teaspoon nutmeg (optional)<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup sultanas<\/p>\n<p>1 1\/2 cups diced green tomatoes<\/p>\n<h2>Method<\/h2>\n<p>Preheat oven to 180\u00baC. Combine sugar, melted butter, eggs and vanilla in a medium bowl and beat until smooth and creamy. In a separate bowl sift flour, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Gradually beat the sugar mixture into the flour and mix until well combined. Stir in walnuts, sultanas and tomatoes. Pour into a greased or baking paper lined 20cm round cake tin. Bake in a moderate oven (180\u00baC) for one hour, or until skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Remove cake from pan to a cake rack and leave to cool.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Recipe adapted from Southern Food)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storing tomatoes Fully ripe tomatoes can be refrigerated but are best kept at room temperature. Tomatoes stored in the refrigerator tend to lose flavour but will still be edible. Ripe tomatoes Salads, especially using different varieties and colours. Try tossing tomato wedges with canned cannellini beans, drained and rinsed, black olives, capers and fresh basil, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,91,7,87,29,59],"tags":[73,94,13,96,95,30],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easy-recipes","category-cooking-tips-hints","category-radio-food-segments","category-cakes-easy-recipes","category-fruit","category-vegetables","tag-easy-recipe","tag-green-tomato-cake","tag-green-tomatoes","tag-ripening-green-tomatoes","tag-storing-tomatoes","tag-tomatoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigidtreloar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}