Fresh Tomatoes

[hlbtimes2]

Anyone have any good recipes using fresh tomatoes? I have about 15-20 pounds of big, ripe, fresh ones. I would love a recipe using pasta, basil, garlic and olive oil- light and fresh! But, really, anything that is tried and true would be great.

[robinb]

I usually just eat them with olive oil, basil and fresh mozzerella cheese. You can also make a fresh sauce with them for pasta.

Any tomatoes that you don't eat right away can be frozen whole with the skins on. When you defrost them the skins will just fall off.

[liamsaunt]

Wow, you are so lucky to have all those tomatoes! Given all the ingredients you have, I would suggest two possible recipes:

pasta fresca:

tomatoes, rinsed off, no need to skin or seed
basil, handful
garlic, one-two cloves, peeled
evoo, 2 tbsp.
salt and pepper to taste
fresh mozzarella, cubed, one ball
parmsean, to taste, frshly grated
farfalle, cooked all dente, as needed (3 oz. per adult person)

Combine all but pasta and cheese in food processor, whirl til combined. Toss room temperature sauce with hot pasta and all cheeses, season to taste.

Ravioli and tomatoes with basil

1 lb. cheese ravioli
2 lbs. tomatoes
two handfuls basil, torn
1/2 cup nicoise olives (you can leave these out if you don't like them)
1/4 cup olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

bring large pot of water to boil, then add tomatoes: blanch briefly (15 seconds) then scoop out, peel, seed, and chop coarsely. Place in large bowl with all remaining ingreds. except pasta.

Cook ravioli until done and drain well. Toss with other ingreds., check seasoning, and serve warm or room temperature.

[DeborahA]

We love this one: I just throw in everything we love--no real recipe.
Cook pasta--add chopped tomatos, basil, olive oil, garlic and feta cheese. Add fresh ground pepper, a little pinch of red pepper flakes and salt if needed.
Very fast and healthy.
Deb