Bring tomatoes - the best summer fruits

One of the simple pleasures of summer eating tomatoes. No fraudulent Red balls on sale in supermarkets, but juicy fruits, picked from the vine, on a sunny afternoon. An index of musk fragrance and makes your mouth water; he is my favorite fruit. I could do without a lot of food, but never tomatoes.

A juicy tomato is the kind of fast food; they need little or no work. A drizzle of olive oil, a pinch of sea salt and a few leaves of basil for a simple and delicious salad. Ripe tomatoes to make a sauce in less than fifteen minutes.

Make the most and the best of them as possible. Boil fresh or preserved for the cold winter months in sauces and purees. First, if you grow your own, make sure you choose the best, save it properly before cooking or eating. Here you will learn how to make the most of the tomatoes.

Choose tomatoes and storage

• Whether it is a fresh tomato, should be slightly aromatic and stems and leaves should be green and fresh air. Most perfume in a tomato comes from the leaves and stem rather than the fruit itself, so vine-ripened tomatoes have a stronger flavor.
• Keep tomatoes at room temperature, never in the refrigerator. Refrigerator dulls the taste, but if you have to sit with them, then remove and let cool before to room temperature. Put a ripe tomato in the fridge makes it go faster soft.
• Under-ripe or ripe tomatoes? To ripen in a paper bag with a ripe tomato and kept at room temperature and see the magic. Under ripe - ripe to use for sauces and soups or tomato juice, hot sauce healthy, however, and to also make a great hangover).

Tips for Using and cook tomatoes

• Skin of a tomato, initially a small cross-section in the base of the tomato with a sharp knife, bath is then done in boiling water for 10 seconds in ice water for a further 10 Piel Simply place.
• Skin or not to skin? For salads or grilled, no. If the court is also sieved or strained, but not like pasta or fresh tomatoes from thick sauce, then yes.
• Mint, parsley, basil and oregano herbs are the perfect partner for tomatoes.
• A teaspoon of sugar in cooked tomatoes (sauces, purees, etc.) brings the sweetness.
• Use grilled tomatoes instead of the standard round holding his solid meat on a skewer, but slipping through the bars.
• Bathe your kitchen winter sun preserve tomatoes in sauces, soups and purees, if they are best in summer (sauce recipes below make large can).
• If tomatoes have no taste then try, drying oven in order to intensify the flavor (or so, if you live in a climate).

Recipe ideas for tomatoes

The best tomato sauce recipe - never

Quick Tomato Sauce - Ideal for freezing

Five things to do with tomatoes

Summer Tomato Tart

Cod in tomato sauce

Sun Dried Tomato Recipe

Mozzarella and tomatoes

Chicken in Tomato Sauce Recipe Spanish