Grow with Grace: Get Cooking with Your Tomato Avalanche!

Welcome back to Grow with Grace!

Here’s the deal. if you have a garden, then I know you have tomatoes …and you know you have tomatoes. The question is: What do you do with all of them?

Let’s dig in!

First things first: Please don’t put them in the refrigerator. A ripe garden tomato deserves better than that.

By now, I’m sure you’re enjoying tomato sandwiches and Caprese salad. (One of my favorite twists is using burrata instead of mozzarella.)

This week, I’m sharing a few of my favorite recipes. They’re all simple, fresh, and designed to make the most of whatever your garden is producing.

Here are four of my favorite ways to make the most of tomato season …

Until next time…

I grow plum tomatoes just for canning, so stay tuned for September’s feature on our annual Sauce Day. It isn’t quite I Love Lucy stomping grapes — but by the end of Sauce Day, my kitchen looks like it could have been.

Until then, when you’ve had your fill of tomato sandwiches, try a few of these recipes and keep bringing your garden from yard to table.

I’m off to toil in the soil!

Grace

** Grace Cangemi Ryan is a longtime area resident and master gardener who graduated from Rumson Country Day School in 1980, is an alum of the famous Barn Theatre in Rumson, a former longtime entertainment industry professional and Red Bank councilwoman from years back. She supports hyperlocal journalism and is a friend to this hyperlocal labor of love, R-FH Retro. Growing with Grace will appear in R-FH Retro weekly, offering gardening tips from Grace — or with Grace. If you need a little Grace in the form of help with your garden, give Grace a call. See her sponsorship above. **