Early final week, a good friend of mine who tends an city farm in Silver Lake despatched me the perfect message I can hope for in summer season. “I've a basket of tomatoes for you!”
After a flurry of coronary heart emojis, my thoughts obtained to dreaming about all of the tomato recipes I’d make with this present. When he arrived with the tomatoes, there was a beautiful number of yellow cherry-sized tomatoes, some ruby-red spherical specimens, and a Peruvian tomato that appeared like somebody glued a bunch of cherry tomatoes into one massive tomato.
This gesture jogged my memory of farmers again in Mississippi who would all the time present up at our doorstep in summer season to present buckets of additional tomatoes. I do know this occurs in every single place all around the nation too, so I wished to suggest some recipes to make use of them up if you end up in the identical (lucky) state of affairs.
I instantly considered my Savory Cherry Tomato Clafoutis, which is extra like a frittata, to make use of up these sunny cherry tomatoes. A slice of that with espresso is considered one of my favourite breakfasts in summer season, whether or not eaten scorching or chilly the subsequent day.
A handful of barely bigger, Christmas-light-shaped tomatoes appeared good to confit and throw into my good friend Alexis deBoschnek’s Pasta With Tomato Confit and Ricotta. Prepare dinner up a little bit of pasta, then simply stir within the tomatoes and the ricotta — I can’t consider a better summer season dish.
With the remainder of the bigger tomatoes, I wish to exhibit their beautiful coloration, so I’ll make Rodney Scott’s Marinated Tomatoes and Onions to maintain round to make use of as a type of pickle on the aspect of meals all through the week. And I’ll use some wedges to make Jenny Dorsey’s Tomato & Egg Stir-Fry, which is considered one of my favourite pairings, the creamy eggs softening the brilliant acidity of the tomatoes.
And when I've a number of stragglers or trimmed ins and outs of tomatoes left on the finish of the week, I’ll make my Charred Gazpacho, which will get its calmly smoky taste from some grilled bread. It takes only a few minutes to whip up and shops nicely within the fridge for days — good for me to seize after I need a refreshing style of that present of fantastic tomatoes that began the week.
Savory Cherry Tomato Clafoutis
Farmers market cherry tomatoes — sometimes no larger than marbles — work completely right here, however so do grocery retailer grape and cherry varieties; simply use the smallest ones you will discover. Serve this dish for breakfast or with a salad for lunch.
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Prepare dinner time: 35 minutes.
Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry
A basic Chinese language preparation, tomatoes and eggs are cooked right here with scallions and garlic, after which served with a cumin-scented rice and easy garlicky greens. Make the greens and stir-fry whereas the rice is cooking so every little thing comes collectively on the identical time.
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Prepare dinner time: half-hour.
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Marinated Tomatoes and Onions
Relying on the number of tomato you employ, the flavour will probably be some mixture of candy, tangy and salty. That’s the identical mixture within the dressing right here. There’s somewhat sugar in each the French dressing and the rib rub that helps heighten the sweetness of the tomatoes and onion.
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Prepare dinner time: quarter-hour.
Pasta With Tomato Confit and Ricotta
Tomato confit is nice on nearly every little thing — topped on pizza, piled excessive on charred sourdough, swirled in with creamy polenta — however I discover it’s significantly good blended into pasta with heaps of ricotta. When you've gotten an abundance of tomatoes on the counter which have began to wither or have simply handed their peak taste, this can be a nice solution to resurrect them.
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Prepare dinner time: 20 minutes, plus 2 hours, largely unattended, for tomatoes.
Charred Gazpacho
The flavour of charred bread is the important thing to this brilliant, bubbly gazpacho, so use the perfect you will discover. I like utilizing candy cherry tomatoes right here as a result of you'll be able to chuck them into the blender with no prep, however in case you have tremendous ripe beefsteak or heirloom tomatoes, give them a tough chop and use these as a substitute.
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Prepare dinner time: quarter-hour, plus 1 hour chilling.
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