Over ripe tomatoes

[AnyoneForPimms]

Hi,
I have been given a box of over ripe tomatoes by a green grocer friend who gives me fruit and veg he cannot sell.
I normally make a soup or casserole but I'm just fed up of tomato soup.
Any ideas?
Maybe a pasta sauce?
Thanks for any ideas x

How many are we talking?

You could half them, put them skin down on a baking sheet, salt/pepper, some crushed garlic, herb of choice, drizzle olive oil and put in low oven until the juice dries out (gas 1 ish for couple of hours)

what size are they?

A mixture of sizes, cherry to beef. About 2kg!!!!!

OK let me go and find my recipe book and I shall be back as I have a book that tells you what to do with a glut of....... give me 10 mins!!!!

Right let me suggest the tomato sauce recipe and some follow ups, freezes well and can be reheated straight from frozen so useful to have:

250 ml olive oil
10 onions roughly chopped
5 garlic cloves roughly chopped
3-4kg/7-9lbs of overripe toms
sugar (only if necessary to remedy sourness apparently)
salt and pepper

Heat oil in pan large enough to accomodate all toms, Add onions/garlic and cook until soft but not brown. Add toms and cook on low heat until soft then simmer for an hour stir occasionally. After an hour taste and season (add sugar if ness) as winter they suggest adding sugar. If you have a mouli-legumes put through the toms but otherwise would suggest sieving the seeds out as don't know many people who do have a mouli.

With this you can make anything but can be a soup by adding double cream or milk, curry by adding it to a curry recipe with curry paste and coconut, pasta sauce or add to mince. Apparently you shouldn't add herbs before you freeze but when reheating.

Hope that helps.

Brilliant!!!
It's simmering away now.
Thanks x

Stuff the (halved) baby toms in a yellow pepper and roast with a bay leaf, olive oil, basamic and thyme