I was convinced I had attained peak tomato-based soup. But when I made a batch with the jus from my friend’s inferior gazpacho, I realized that I had finally achieved the true summit.
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Toasting Tomatoes with Todd English
Yellow Heirloom Tomato Sauce, post roasting, ready for blending with basil. Talkin’ Tomatoes with the Toddfather This is a fun time of the year to be Chef Todd English. Which, chances are, you aren’t, but you can still enjoy this sunny moment, the cusp where summer meets autumn, in…
Ratatouille Lasagna
Double Ratatouille Lasagna “If you are what you eat, I only want to eat the good stuff” – Remy the Rat Ratatouille Season If you squint, Ratatouille is practically indistinguishable from summer itself. It’s a dish you make when the tomatoes, eggplant, and zucchini are all accumulating faster than…
Homemade Ketchup
It’s easy to take ketchup for granted. To just assume it will always be there. But once our all-American burger and fries arrive, if we don’t have ketchup we have a problem.
Charred Salsa
(click here for the word file) At the 12th annual Butte Bouldering Bash a few weeks back, rock climbers gathered to scramble up the crystal-flecked boulders that sprout from the earth along the Pipestone section of Montana’s continental divide. Climbing requires a lot of nourishment. Carbohydrates to keep you going,…
Greco-Roman Caprese
These are the gazpacho days of summer, when anyone can be a vegetarian with barely an effort. Even the most dedicated carnivore might find themselves satisfied, at the end of a meat-free meal, and not even realize it. I’m that way with Greco Roman Caprese.
Dehydrated Tomato Sauce
The middle of winter can be a tough time for tomato lovers. We are about as far away from the end of last season as we are from the beginning of this summer’s harvest, and no member of the produce kingdom suffers such a noticeable lack of flavor when it’s imported, out of season, from some faraway place.
The Way of the BLT
A properly put together BLT is the Bruce Lee of sandwiches. It’s lean and light and full of fight.
Tomato Gravy Train
What better way to say goodbye to summer than with a tomato? The orbs of August haven’t disappeared yet, and until they get bonked by the inevitable frost, they will persist, happily ripening in the crisp air. And I will be clinging to those sweet and savory fruit like summer…
Pasta Clemenza
Pasta Clemenza made with cannoli-like pasta Leave the Gun. Take the Cannoli. — Pete Clemenza In The Godfather, by Mario Puzo, is a scene where Pete Clemenza shows Michael Corleone how to make spaghetti and meatballs. Clememza was the smoothest character in the story, after the Godfather himself, of course,…