Tomato Porn

[dcarch]

Yes, I have done many versions of BLTs. I have given away many, I have made sauce, I have dehydrated ----

Still I have more.

Some recent tomato concoctions.

What have you done with your tomatoes?

dcarch

From my garden

Tomatoes & Tofu with cheese dressing

Green Pineapple, Tangerine Tomatoes Mozzarella Cheese

Sungold Fried Eggs, CreamOf Corn and Black Garlic sauce

Sous Vide Pork, Squash Sprouts and Carmello Tomatoes

Sun Gold Pizza

Black Cherry Tomatoes, Mozzarella Cheese and Watermelon Salad

[sigma]

Oh my. I don't even know what to say.

[Kim Shook]

I'm fainting here. Not only are your creations beautiful and inspiring, but those gorgeous tomatoes. We have had ONE great tomato this summer and THAT was from a friend's garden in Indiana. Pooh! No one here is giving any away and the farmer's markets don't have very good ones either. I guess it's the lack of rain in the Spring? Truly lovely, my friend!

[SylviaLovegren]

Gorgeous! The picture of the multicolored tomatoes from your garden is just sensational.

So far, all I've done with summer tomatoes is eat them in rather boring traditional salads. Your photos make me feel ashamed...but inspired!

[johannafin]

60+ quarts crushed canned. 8 cups slow roasted and frozen.

Edited August 22, 2012 by johannafin (log)

[rotuts]

Im not sure if 'commercial' tomato p0rn counts> This in todays NYTimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/dining/cold-tomato-soup-for-steamy-summer-days-city-kitchen.html?_r=1&ref=dining

[rod rock]

Dcarch, im speachless! Food looks almost unreal

[SobaAddict70]

Insalata di zucchini e pomodoro

Tomato and herb salad

Tomato and stone fruit salad, with Spanish chorizo and prosciutto crudo

Insalata Caprese, slow-roasted tomatoes

Fava bean and heirloom tomato ragoût

Celery "pasta" and heirloom tomato salad

[dcarch]

SobaAddict, totally amazing what you can do with tomatoes! I am impressed!

dcarch

[SobaAddict70]

thanks dcarch.

the tomato and tofu above reminds me of a version of hiyayakko I did a while ago, with Jersey tomatoes, scallions, pickled ginger and silken tofu.

I'm thinking I need to do that again, soon.

[janeer]

dcarch and SobaAddict your photos are so gorgeous I was reminded of these old ones from my blog. I am now living in Tucson so only get tomatoes like this when I there in the summer and I miss the late summer/September tomatoes now that I am gone.

Tomato Pie

Spicy Tomato Soup

[sparrowgrass]

Wow, just wow. My tomatoes are sad this year--the heirlooms never did much. I had a few Ananas Noir tomatoes--my favorites. I had lots of Romas and Big Boys (planted those only because my mom insisted) that I canned and froze, but the weather has been so miserably hot and dry that the garden just looks awful.

[dcarch]

Thank you all. I seem to remember there are 6,000 varieties of tomatoes.

It will take me a while to try them all.

Made tomato ice cream with crispy tomato chips.

dcarch

[Katie Meadow]

janeer, can you provide a recipe for the tomato pie?

[janeer]

janeer, can you provide a recipe for the tomato pie?

Here: simple as pie

dcarch: the ice cream sounds very appealing; do you spice it at all?

[dcarch]

janeer, can you provide a recipe for the tomato pie?

Here: simple as pie

dcarch: the ice cream sounds very appealing; do you spice it at all?

As a matter of fact I spiced it too much.

I put in too much ginger. I like ginger ice cream, but this is supposed to be tomato ice cream. Still tasted good. :-)

dcarch

[dcarch]

Tomatoes and seafood go so well togather.

Sous vided Sea Scallops, and Chilean Sea Bass

dcarch

[ScottyBoy]

Think I just might have something for this thread when all these bad boys come in...

[Pierogi]

Tomato tart on puff pastry from "Cooks Illustrated", July/August 2003. REALLY, really good, and I was surprised that I could taste the difference between the three types of tomatoes (Beefmaster and Marvel Stripe, from my plants, and a Green Zebra from my CSA). There's a layer of jamon de serrano under the tomatoes.

Quite yum.

[Alex Parker]

This year I tended to do things such as Tomato Relish, and Tomato and Balsamic Sorbet.

I will post pics as soon as I get my camera back (it died )

[rod rock]

Im interested to see those photos Alex, i hope that will be soon

[judiu]

Scotty Boy, why so late? Weather, micro climate, late start...? I live in south Florida, so my veg schedual is totally off from most people. Is this the norm for you? I grew up on Long Island, in NY state, and our tomatoes came in around July, iirc. This time of year was for the last of the corn, and the start of the hard squash and pumpkins.

[Genkinaonna]

I just started pulling the big tomatoes out of my garden, although I've been getting little ones for more than a month. It was a relatively cool and long spring, so it took the plants some time to really start producing. I made some sauce with about half of the Romas and Amish Pastes that I had, the rest will be done tomorrow afternoon. We had an odd rainy day (it doesn't usually rain all summer) about 2 weeks ago and quite a few of my tomatoes split . I'm not quite sure what to do with all the slicing tomatoes I'm going to be getting, I think I'm going to give quite a few to friends and find some good looking mozzarella for the rest.