A Mess of Roasted Tomatoes

There's a story behind these tomatoes.  Well, two stories, but I'll only elaborate on one. 

A couple of years ago I started a forum called Food on Radio Paradise.  I'd been a part of the community for less than 6 months, but thought there might be some other foodies there.  And there were.  Quite a few RP members posted recipes and ideas.  I was pleased.  And then life caught up with me, and I didn't post anymore recipes.  I was barely surviving, and I certainly wasn't cooking anything worth sharing with the internets. 

Allan continued to post recipes, but the one person who really kept the forum going was Zissy.  She even created a blog, which she called Recipes Shared at Radio Paradise. 

Last night, when I was at a loss for what to do with the 32 tomatoes I had sitting in my kitchen, I posted a comment at Radio Paradise.  One of two resident tomato experts came to my aid (as did other folk, but JrzyTmata's recipe struck a chord), and gave me the link to her own recipe on the blog that Zissy started, based on my Food forum.  (Are you following me?) 

This is what I made today with my 31 tomatoes (I ate one last night on my salad):  Roasted Tomato Sauce.  And it is delicious.  So thank you, Jrzy, and thank you Zissy, for keeping "my" forum alive and taking it further. 

Comments

[Allan]

It will forever be your forum. Thanks for starting it.

[Michelle]

And the garlic! Yummmmmmm.....

[cassie-b]

That sounds wonderful. And I have a lot of tomatoes sitting on my kitchen counter. It has just become my project for tomorrow.

Thanks for the link

[Alison]

Cassie, it takes a while. I had no idea how many pounds of tomatoes I had, but I knew I had a lot, so I doubled the other ingredients and did two batches. My oven was on for a good three hours!

That said, it is worth it. One other thing: it's garlicky, so feel free to reduce the garlic. I used two heads because the cloves were big, and I like roasted garlic. Next time I might use less, though.

[angel]

Mmm thanks for answering my question ;)

[Margaret]

Garlic is very good for you, and delicious on tomatoes. It looks wonderful!

[laprincessa]

I had no idea there was a blog! I need to update our word documents.

[Zissy]

I never in a million years would have thought about taking the RP recipes and ideas of them for myself. I directed all of the profile information to RP and my name wasn't anywhere except where I added a recipe. I thought I was known better than that but apparently not. It was getting hard to read through all of the forum chit chat so I thought it would be easier to go to a blog and get a recipe. Your name is now in the profile as the originator and again I never took it as my own.

Hugs, Zissy

[Alison]

Zissy, this post was not meant as a criticism of you. If not for you, that Food forum would have been lost. I also thank you for the blog. That was a great idea!

So thanks. For everything.

*hugs*