Thanks for the memories. I remember my grandmother and aunts doing this on the farm at least 52 years ago.


Mary

I've been making spaghetti sauce with most of my tomatoes and freezing it.  Yum.  And a friend just gave me some fabulous Spanish olive oil (that tastes different from the Italian) and so I've been enjoying drizzling some on my mators.  :)

Now that sounds good! When I get enough juice, I want to make a batch of ketchup. Then maybe sauce, too. DH picked up these plants last spring and got the wrong kind -- wanted plum tomatoes. These are really juicy, so will have to drain, then boil down for sauce or ketchup. Still, we use the juice quickly, not for drinking, but for soup.

Those are nice-looking tomatoes.  You're Ms. Susie Homemaker.  :)

Got in the habit, okubon, when 1. I discovered my MIL's wonderful cooking (just like my grandmother's) had a lot to do with her own vegetable garden. My mother traded her garden for a job teaching, and we had mostly commercially canned vegetables; and 2. I hated teaching and instead stayed home, so really, really needed to economize any way I could. In those days we had a LARGE truck patch garden. I found I actually liked canning and freezing -- to my surprise, because my mother had made no secret of how much she disliked the same :) Strange, isn't it?

Home grown tomatoes are the BEST!!!!  I pick a few from my garden the other day and made tomato sandwichs with them, yum, yum!

We also have a big garden and in the winter we get only those nasty green house tomatoes. I roast the summer tomatoes and they are easy to do, greatly reduced in size and big in taste.

I line a roasting pan with foil, spray with olive oil and add seeded tomato pieces sprinkled with chopped garlic and herbs (I like fresh rosemary, salt and pepper - but anything goes). They another spray of oil and a hot oven, about 400 - until the tomatoes are reduced and chared. Let them cool and they are wonderful!

What kind are they?  Do they taste good?

I think they're just Big Boys -- have a decent flavor, but not intense. Never tried roasting them, Chris, but that sounds good, too -- except we routinely roast veggies in a pack on the grill, including a tomato slice in the pack.

I love grilled veggies as well but roasting the tomatoes is a great was to get rid of a big volume of them at once. Then I put them in bags, freeze them and use them in sauce and soup all winter. The flavor is concentrated and they take up much less space.

Hope you had a great day with the grandkids. Ours will be arriving any minute.

Oh!  I love homemade tomato juice!  I used to even drink it warm, right out of the pot my grandmother was making it in!  Send some this way, please!