Roasting My Bumper Crop of Tomatoes

The garden has been amazing this year, I have more tomatoes than I know what to do with.

I don't know how to can, 

but I read that you can roast and freeze the tomatoes with similar results.

Here is my first attempt,

I roasted a lot of tomatoes and they cooked down to nothing!

 

I have a lot more to roast...and I see a lot of BLT sandwiches in our future.

We love grilled cheese and tomatoes too, we really enjoy sandwiches in the summer for supper.

Here's what I used, and I followed this recipe from Pinterest.

Tomatoes, fresh garlic, Italian seasonings, kosher salt and EVOO.

I am growing some "odd" shaped tomatoes, so I used all of them up first.

Cut them into 8th's, into the bowl with smashed garlic,

EVOO and Italian seasonings...

onto the lined cookie sheet...don't crowd them.

I cooked them at 350 degrees, for 1 hour and 20 minutes and that seemed just about right.

One end of the cookie sheet got a little burnt, dark but the rest were fine

Once they cooled, I scooped them into a freezer bag and placed them flat into the freezer.

I still have a lot of tomatoes, so I will be doing more.

I have a few ideas of what these can be used for...

Tomato Soup

Roasted Tomato Sauce for Pasta

 Pizza Sauce

Do you have any other ideas you would like to share, let me know in the comments.

Do you guys have a garden, what have you been cooking?

Lake Of The Lilies

I can take pictures from the car at Lake of the Lilies, in fact,

I rarely get out of the car to take pictures there. 

As I have mentioned in the past, a large number of the swans have returned to the lake.

I captured them canoodling around, some were quite affectionate.

We sat forever as I tried to capture the swans making a heart with their necks.

- close -

- ooooh so close -

- theres always that one -

- these 2 were so sweet and affectionate together -

- swans...always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan mail -