15 posts categorized "Tomato"

Simple Creamy Tomato Soup: January 17, 2012
Categories: Comfort Food, Quick Meal, Season: Winter, Soup, Tomato
Can you stop after just one potato chip? Or two for that matter? Or, if your neighbors left some home made chocolate chip cookies on your doorstep and you bite into one and it is delicious, could you have just...

Soft Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes, Herbs, and Sour Cream: October 18, 2011
Categories: Basics, Breakfast, Egg, Season: Anytime, Tomato
Over time, we've developed a yen for soft scrambled eggs, eggs that are cooked just until the yolks and whites are fully cooked, but no longer. Perfectly done, they are tender and moist and not the least bit dry. Our...

Freshened Up Eggplant Parmesan: September 1, 2011
Categories: Basil, Entree, Farmers' Market Find, Potluck Dish, Season: Summer, Tomato
Eggplant parmesan has had me in a quandary. The best eggplants are available at farmers' markets at this time of year, so this should be the best time of year to make it. But it has never seemed like a...

Saffron-Laced Ratatouille : August 8, 2011
Categories: Basil, Entree, Party Food, Picnic Food, Potluck Dish, Quinoa, Season: Summer, Squash, Tomato, Zucchini
This is the time of year when I go crazy at the farmers' market. I'm like a kid at the proverbial candy store, filling my bags with as much gorgeous produce as I can. I should go with one hand...

Smoky Eggplant Lasagna: September 7, 2010
Categories: Basil, Comfort Food, Easy to Freeze, Entree, Farmers' Market Find, Pasta, Season: Autumn, Season: Summer, Tomato
So that's it then. Summer is officially over. Sigh. I can't say that I'm ready to leave it behind, the long days, lazy evenings at the pool, unstructured hours of who-knows-what. We did our best to wring the last bits...

Harvest Vegetable Tart with Parmesan Crust: September 25, 2009
Categories: Basil, Entree, Farmers' Market Find, Party Food, Season: Summer, Tomato
This time of year I go a bit crazy at the farmers' market. There is such an abundance of vegetables that I love that I buy more than even this family of hearty appetites can reasonably consume in a week....

Bean Quesadillas with Avocado Salsa: September 17, 2009
Categories: Appetizer, Avocado, Beans, Condiment, Farmers' Market Find, Lunch Box, Party Food, Quick Meal, Season: Anytime, Tomato
Some weeks we are very organized about the children's lunches, shopping especially for them on the weekend. And some weekends are chaotic and we don't get our planning done. Quesadillas are one of those lunches that we usually can pull...

Back to School and Moro Bean, Tomato, and Basil Salad: August 31, 2009
Categories: Beans, Farmers' Market Find, Picnic Food, Potluck Dish, Season: Summer, Tomato
Chloe, our youngest, started kindergarten today and, although I knew it was coming, I'm still reeling. She had been nervous, but by yesterday her siblings' enthusiasm had rubbed off on her and she said she couldn't wait to start kindergarten....

Roasted Heirloom Tomato Sauce: August 26, 2009
Categories: Basics, Easy to Freeze, Farmers' Market Find, Garden Variety, Season: Summer, Teacher Gift, Tomato
We have struck it rich in the tomato department. All of those heirloom tomato plants that we planted in the garden at Black Ankle are producing like mad. Mary has been bringing us a large basket every week filled with...

Corn, Tomato, and Quinoa Salad with Cilantro Vinaigrette: August 25, 2009
Categories: Corn, Farmers' Market Find, Potluck Dish, Quick Meal, Quinoa, Season: Summer, Side Dish, Tomato
Aren't neighbors wonderful? We had our neighbors over for dinner the other night, and we grilled some corn to go along with our tacos. I had gotten the corn at the farmers' market, and as I husked it with the...

Peach, Tomato, and Mozzarella Salad: August 20, 2009
Categories: Farmers' Market Find, Peach, Picnic Food, Potluck Dish, Quick Meal, Salad, Season: Summer, Tomato
As I have mentioned before, one of our favorite summer meals is tomato and mozzarella salad. Of course we wait until really good tomatoes are available at the farmers' market (or in our garden!) and use the best mozzarella we...

Vegetarian Sloppy Joes a.k.a. Sloppy Tamaras: July 14, 2009
Categories: Feeds an Army, Quick Meal, Season: Anytime, Tofu, Tomato
If you have not been too keen on tofu, but are willing to give it another go, this is an excellent dish to try. The flavors are robust, so even those who don't normally care for tofu will be won...

Minted Bulgur with Tomato and Roasted Chick Peas: May 28, 2009
Categories: Bulgur, Entree, Lunch Box, Picnic Food, Potluck Dish, Salad, Season: Summer, Tomato
I have been wanting to include more grains in our meals so when I heard a discussion about bulgur on NPR's Splendid Table, I was intrigued. Janet Fletcher, who writes for the San Francisco Chronicle, traveled to Turkey and delved...

Spaghetti and V-Balls: April 10, 2009
Categories: Basics, Comfort Food, Entree, Pasta, Season: Anytime, Tofu, Tomato
I have been a vegetarian for many years now, and I rarely crave meat. I’ll admit that the occasional whiff of barbeque can make me hungry, but the smell is really better than the taste anyway, so I don’t find...

Roasted Tomato and Onion Rotelle: February 22, 2009
Categories: Entree, Onion, Pasta, Season: Winter, Tomato
At about this point in the winter, I am craving a good tomato. Of course no such thing is available in the stores near us in February. But this dish is enough to remind me of how good it can...