tomatoes

Summer Lovers-Tomatoes and Gazpacho

by Peter G January 17, 2012 Recipes

Summer time. It conjures up images of ice cream. Beaches. Sand. Stone fruit. Crickets chirping. And for me…tomatoes! I have always associated tomatoes with summer. There’s something about this sexy fruit that hypnotises every part of me. I can never resist eating them or photographing them for that matter. Last year I made a bruschetta that combined the classic Italian Caprese ingredients as a topping. The year before I made [...]

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Tomato Tart

by Peter G August 11, 2011 Recipes

Why do I feel a little guilty about purchasing “out of season” produce? Take for example these baby Roma tomatoes. In the midst of our winter, they were on display at one of the chain supermarkets. Glossy, shiny and plump…they were screaming “buy me…buy me!”. I know that summer produce

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Home Made Tomato Ketchup

by Peter G June 1, 2010 Recipes

I’m heading back in time slightly with this post. It’s actually quite therapeutic looking at all this wonderful summer produce amidst this dreary winter weather. I made ketchup. Or more specifically home made tomato ketchup. During my heirloom tomato phase, I found myself with quite a few leftover and was racking my brains out for ideas on how to best use them.

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“Ladenia”-with Heirloom Tomatoes

by Peter G April 7, 2010 Greek Food

I hope everyone had a great Easter. Sorry for the lack of posts but my computer died recently and whilst it’s being repaired, I have been using a friend’s borrowed laptop. It doesn’t always want to work with WordPress but I’m making sure it does today. I want to continue where I left off recently and that means more heirloom tomatoes!

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Heirloom Tomato Salad

by Peter G March 23, 2010 Greek Food

Another mission accomplished. I found heirloom tomatoes here in Sydney! Finally! (The closest I’ve come to heirloom tomatoes was finding these kumatoes early last year). I fell in love with these fruit when I first tried them in San Francisco