3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

I'd love to have a recipe for that sundried tomatoes sold in the delicatessen in supermarkets. Love them so much, but they are very small in amount for £1.69 compared with the antipasto pepperdew chillies. Do you have a recipe for that please, @Leeski ?

I mean this one with a bit of green?

 

[Leeski]

I'd love to have a recipe for that sundried tomatoes sold in the delicatessen in supermarkets. Love them so much, but they are very small in amount for £1.69 compared with the antipasto pepperdew chillies. Do you have a recipe for that please, @Leeski ?

I mean this one with a bit of green?

For sundried tomato’s cut them into quarters tiny pinch of sugar& salt a little olive oil into a really low oven if gas just a pilot light will do for 18-24 hours then into a jar of olive oil add what ever you like garlic thyme rosemary works well

 

[marlingardener]

We sun-dry tomatoes (Texas has plenty of sun) by cutting Roma tomatoes in half, stem to stern, washing in vinegar, and then putting them on the dryer. When they are well-wrinkled, we bring them in, put them in jars and cover with olive oil, as Leeski said. When we use the tomatoes, we are careful to save the tomato-infused olive oil for salad dressings or marinating vegetables.
Tomatoes that have less seed/pulp and more "meat" to them dry better, but you can use almost any tomato. We've even dried red and yellow cherry tomatoes.

 

[alp]

For sundried tomato’s cut them into quarters tiny pinch of sugar& salt a little olive oil into a really low oven if gas just a pilot light will do for 18-24 hours then into a jar of olive oil add what ever you like garlic thyme rosemary works well

18-24hrs ...

Come on, @Leeski ! There must be an alternative!

 

[alp]

We sun-dry tomatoes (Texas has plenty of sun) by cutting Roma tomatoes in half, stem to stern, washing in vinegar, and then putting them on the dryer. When they are well-wrinkled, we bring them in, put them in jars and cover with olive oil, as Leeski said. When we use the tomatoes, we are careful to save the tomato-infused olive oil for salad dressings or marinating vegetables.
Tomatoes that have less seed/pulp and more "meat" to them dry better, but you can use almost any tomato. We've even dried red and yellow cherry tomatoes.

Love to get hold of one of your jars! I love the ones in my pic with a bit of probably basil??? Incredibly delicious! Make divine spaghetti with a healthy dollop of Parmesan cheese. Shame we don't have that much heat in this country. But I will try as I live in the hottest and driest part of the country!

Love your tomatoes, @marlingardener I hope mine would be as big as yours. Love the yellow one as well. I might have bought this packet from Wyevale when they wanted to offload them for 50p each. All the goodies were good and I bought quite a few Italian salad packet such as fennel (yummy!), lettuce and probably tomatoes. Really tickled my fancy when I saw the shape, but I managed to blur 2 pics!

 

[Leeski]

Dehydration Is the quicker method but imo you lose the true taste

 

[alp]

Dehydration Is the quicker method but imo you lose the true taste

Wonder if I have that many, would like to try the two to compare.

 

[Leeski]

Wonder if I have that many, would like to try the two to compare.

Have you got a dehydrator?

 

[Logan]

Trimmed off a lot of excess leaves from my toms and saw this funny shape. Quite cute. Anyone had experience with this. Don't even know the name.
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My brilliant photography skill. All blurred. Nice cute shape!

Looks like plum tomatoes

 

[Logan]

Made another lot of redcurrant jam, that's 4 batches.

Picked 2lb of blueberries, still got a lot left.

 

[alp]

Have you got a dehydrator?

No. I thought you dried them in the oven .. Is there a cheap way of dehydrating them?

 

[alp]

Made another lot of redcurrant jam, that's 4 batches.
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Picked 2lb of blueberries, still got a lot left.

Think you could set up a stall outside your house to sell the fresh fruit, especially blueberries and jam. Might as well make a habit of it as you will always have excess! You will be the entrepreneur of the close, @Logan !

 

[alp]

Looks like plum tomatoes

Think they look more like @marlingardener 's lovely harvest. I hope I have some yellow ones.

Good night to all!

 

[alp]

Good morning to all. It' quite cool and fresh here! A bit overcast as well. Will go out to see if the closing Homebase has anything useful to offer and go to Asda to get some organic flour.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning @alp and all others!

Same weather down here as well this morning,
We are off to do our grocery shop and to visit my Dad this morning ,then I hope to continue tidying up the borders this afternoon ..thats my plan, but plans can go astray!!

Have an enjoyable day folks