Just picked a big bowl of tomatoes.

[EccentricaGallumbits]

what's best to do with them?

Stick them in a baking dish, drizzle lots of oil on them, add garlic, seasoning and basil, and put them in the oven for 2?3 hours on a very low heat (checking occasionally that they're not browning too much). Squish them through a sieve and freeze to use in pasta sauces later on. Yum.

how low is low? electric fan oven-ish?

If you have the time and/or inclination, last week I made this fresh tomato sauce and it was delicious. It does involve peeling and de-seeding though.

From the same (wonderful) food blog: scalloped tomatoes with croutons

Alternatively I'd say a lovely fresh tomato salad with a balsamic dressing and some basil.

Enjoy your tomatoes.

Or how about slow roasted tomatoes?

I do could spend hours looking at that website.

oh yum. slow roasted it will be.

Tomatoes on toast for breakfast. With a bit of garlic (yes, garlic for breakfast!), mint and olive oil. The summer breakfast.

Tomato and mascarpone tart with pesto
Tomato chutney

Omicron - that website is amazing!

< bookmarks apple pancakes recipe >

I'm roasting tomatoes in my oven as I type.They've been in for 3 hours already and aren't done yet.I don't know if I dare leave them in overnight,so might restart again tomorrow.

I was going to start a thread asking what I could do with all my home grown toms and saw this one for slow roasting.

mrs mine are just in the oven too as I type.
The rosemary and thyme is from my garden too and my mouth is watering at the thought.

Sliced and then dressed with balsamic, olive oil and finely snipped chives, with fresh bread to mop up the juices.

Now I want to know how all the slow-roasted tomatoes turned out. Mrs? Size6feet?

Hi OmicronPersei8 - They turned out really well!
I had to put my oven on auto to switch off as it was done late at night.

I had 2 trays of them. Kept half a tray in the fridge to use up fresh, ate the other half(!) for breakfast) and froze the rest.
Lovely flavours and the garlic sweet.
I think I used a bit too much oil, as the toms are juicy anyway.