What To Do With: Tomato?

Summer maybe over but there are still loads of tomatoes to be eaten. Here are some of our favorite ways to cook and eat tomatoes.

Tomato and egg over rice, a total comfort food meal.

A quick and easy tomato sauce. Howard used canned tomatoes but fresh tomatoes should work just fine.

And once you got your tomato sauce down, you can totally add other ingredients to it. For the tomato and capers with linguine, I used tomato paste but go ahead and substitute it with your freshly made tomato sauce.

Howard cooks tomato and linguine his way.

How about a tomato gratin dish?

Tomato, eggplant and smoked mozzarella make a great side dish.

And for the adventurous people, freeze your tomatoes and grate them over everything!

Tomato And Egg Over Rice

Tomato and egg over rice. This dish may just be one of the most easiest dish to make. The only difficult part is cooking the rice. My mom makes this all the time and it’s great comfort food. For 1 person, all you really need is 2 tomatoes, 1 egg and about 2 tablespoons of ketchup (and a squirt of sriracha, recommended).

Recipe after the jump

Quick Meal: Mush

What the hell is mush you ask? Believe my friend Phaedra came up with it and gave it its name. Few years ago I had my first mush and it was DELICIOUS! It’s quite simple actually combine chili with mac n’cheese and you get mush!

Recently I found myself at Trader Joe’s again, trying to make something quick, simple and cheap, I used a recipe from my sister, Connie, for a cheap quick Trader Joe’s chili. Get a pack of ground beef around $2.25, a can of black beans and a can of tomato soup. Well I left the list of ingredients at work so I had to go with my memory. I thought she told me a can of diced tomato SO I got a can of diced tomato instead of a can of soup. Anyways, I also grabbed a bag of pasta. I went home and cooked the pasta just couple minutes short of al dente time, dumped the cans of black beans and diced tomatoes and mixed. In another pan while the pasta was cooking I cooked the ground meat. When the pasta mixture is nearly done I added the meat and a whole lotta parmesan cheese. Served it with bread!

The Backyard Chronicles 2

The gang took a trip to Lowe’s on Saturday and came back with a bunch of seeds and planting supplies. We divided the seeds, that require sowing indoors first, among us and I spent a good part of Sunday sowing the seeds. Got basil, mustard greens, bell peppers, marjoram and tomatoes.