Fresh Tomato Recipes With Endless Variations
Homemade Fresh Tomato Recipes are seasonal, so enjoy them while you can. My favorite recipes are tomato Sauces, Italian tomato pie and the occasional tomato soup recipe. There are many uses for fresh tomatoes. Tomato recipes range from simple, such as the basic tomato sandwich and fried green tomatoes, to exotic.
Did you ever try tomato ice cream? Summer salads and stuffed tomatoes are great harvest treats. I will list my favorites and variations of each.
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Here are my favorite fresh tomato recipes. Being of Italian heritage my slant is toward Tomato Sauce recipes, Tomato Pies and Pizza pies. I never tire of the possibilities. After living in the south for a while I told my Mother about a great southern style Fried Green tomato Recipe I had perfected. She said, "don't you remember when you were little we used to eat that all the time!". I didn't remember. Then she let me know I was doing it all wrong. Hence I am showing two Fried Green Tomato Recipes. The Southern and the Italian fresh tomato recipe versions. Everytime I would tell someone about how much I loved Tomato Pie, I never guessed we were talking about totally different recipes. The Italian version I was in love with was nothing like the country style versions I had discovered later. So I am including Both Types of Tomato Pie Recipes. People that were aware of the Italian version assumed it was just a Pizza Pie recipe. It's not. The sauce is different and the dough is different than my Thin New York style Pizza. The whole approach is different. Soups are very popular Fresh tomato recipes. Check out my
Rustic Tomato Basil Soup Recipe.
One of the tomato base soups I grew up with was Pasta Fagioli. Talk about Variations! I've had them dark and thick, lite and soupy and all points in between. Here's the reason for all the differences under one name. My Mother claims that the soup is a leftovers soup. When times were tough in Italy and here during the depression, anything left over from previous meals was going in. A little pasta, a small piece of pork or bones, chicken broth or leftover pasta sauce along with some dried beans, let it cook all day and dinner was ready. Well, through the years some of these soups turned into family specialties. The recipes were formed from neccessity and with a little love they became classics. They're like family fingerprints, no two are the same. When I order pasta fagioli in a restaurant I never know which version is coming. Here's my version of
Pasta Fagioli.
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