Tomatoes put - the best of summer fruits

One of the simple pleasures of summer food is tomatoes. No fraudulent red balls that are sold in supermarkets, but the juicy fruit, picked from the vine, on a sunny afternoon. An index of the musky smell and makes your mouth water; he is my favorite fruit. I could give up many foods, but never tomatoes.

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

Make the most and the best of them as possible. Cook fresh or maintained for the cold winter months in sauces and purees. First, if you grow your own, make sure that you properly store has the best selection, before preparing food or eating. Read on to learn how to do most of the tomatoes.

Choose tomatoes and storage

• To find out if a tomato is fresh, be slightly aromatic and has stems and leaves should be fresh and green. Most of the perfume in a tomato leaves and stems of the stem in place of the fruit itself, so vine tomatoes have a stronger flavor.
• Keep tomatoes at room temperature, never in the refrigerator. The fridge takes the taste, but if you have to sit with them, then remove and cool to room temperature before using. Place a ripe tomato in the refrigerator makes them go soft faster.
• Under ripe tomatoes or ripe? To ripen in a paper bag with a ripe tomato and kept at room temperature and see the magic. Be used to make chutney vice versa, too mature for sauces and soups or tomato juice, healthy and a big hangover) - under attack.

Use tomatoes and cooking tips

• Skin of a tomato, first a small cross in the base of the tomato cut with a sharp knife, dip in boiling water for 10 seconds, then let just fall in ice water for a 10-skin and will.
• On the skin or on the skin does not? For salads or grilled, no. When the control panel or not stretched, but the thickening or the like of fresh tomato sauce pulp, then yes.
• Mint, parsley, basil and oregano are perfect partners for tomato plants.
• A teaspoon of sugar cooked tomatoes (sauces, purees, etc.) held sweetness.
• Use grilled tomatoes instead of the standard ammunition and their firm meat on a skewer holds instead of sliding through the bars.
• Bathe your kitchen winter sun preserve tomatoes in sauces, soups and purees, if they are best in summer (salsa recipes below make great canned).
• When tomatoes have no taste then try drying oven in order to improve the taste (or sun if you live in a climate).

Recipe ideas for tomatoes

Best recipe tomato sauce - 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