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.
It will forever be your forum. Thanks for starting it.
Posted by: Allan | August 18, 2005 at 15:46
And the garlic! Yummmmmmm.....
Posted by: Michelle | August 18, 2005 at 16:05
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
Posted by: cassie-b | August 18, 2005 at 16:13
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.
Posted by: Alison | August 18, 2005 at 16:20
Mmm thanks for answering my question ;)
Posted by: angel | August 18, 2005 at 16:32
Garlic is very good for you, and delicious on tomatoes. It looks wonderful!
Posted by: Margaret | August 18, 2005 at 23:13
I had no idea there was a blog! I need to update our word documents.
Posted by: laprincessa | August 19, 2005 at 07:50
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
Posted by: Zissy | September 16, 2005 at 15:46
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*
Posted by: Alison | September 16, 2005 at 16:49