You’ll want to choose large, firm tomatoes for this preparation, because they need to yield enough chopped flesh to add to the filling and because they will serve as edible vessels for the eggs.
The stuffed tomatoes are seated on pita or flatbread because: It’s a good way to use up those slightly stale pieces; the bread base helps keep...
There’s a reason people crowd the tomato stands at the farmers market. Its diverse and vibrant tomatoes seem to taste better than the perfectly red ones at the supermarket, even if parts of the fruit aren’t as ripe as others.
A study in the current issue of Science lends credence to what your taste buds have been telling you.
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One co-worker gloated about his ripe tomato crop — seems he placed his plants near a wall that reflected back whatever heat we had this summer. The rest of the room groused about unripened crops.
What to do with all those green tomatoes, chorused the green thumbs with green tomato crops?
“Fry them,” cried someone who had...
If you plan to read Barry Estabrook’s “Tomatoland,” a good time is now, while juicy, fragrant, local, vine-ripened tomatoes are in abundance.
Reading this stinging indictment of industrial tomato production any other time may leave you unable to enjoy a BLT for several months. And it’s not just because winter tomatoes taste so bad; the...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lillian Smith is ready for a bountiful crop of summer tomatoes.
Right now, her harvest looks a long way off, with only some pale green globes forming on the vines. But she has 25 tomato plants growing in her Rio Linda, Calif., backyard, enough to keep her family in canned tomatoes through the winter. Plus her...
