Leftover grape tomatoes
I bought a large container of grape tomatoes at Costco, ate them all week in salads but have about a pound left. Suggestions for what to do with them if I don't want to eat anymore right now?
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I bought a large container of grape tomatoes at Costco, ate them all week in salads but have about a pound left. Suggestions for what to do with them if I don't want to eat anymore right now?
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I really didn't want a heavy cream sauce, or tomato sauce with the pasta.
And just cooked the meat, onions, garlic, mushrooms with the tomatoes cut in half and cooked with olive oil.
Some parsley to garnish and some Parmesan cheese (for me)...and it was a good alternative to a ravioli in sauce.
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/tender-chicken-legs-with-tomatoes
I sometimes slice a bunch in half and place in a microwave-safe dish. Nuke for a couple minutes with a healthy drizzle of olive oil and a sliced clove of garlic, s+p, a few basil ribbons, and cook until the tomatoes are soft to your liking. Maybe a dash of red pepper flakes if you're feeling spicy. If you want to eat it right away, toss with some spaghetti, or any pasta, and top with some grated parmigiano. Or just spoon it onto bruschetta for a quick bite. Or freeze the sauce for another time.
Or if you'd rather not cook the tomatoes and can stand to eat them now in some form other than raw in salad, try pesto trapanese with grape tomatoes, almonds, garlic, parm, and only a modest amount of basil. Very easy, and a nice change from pesto genovese. Here's Lidia Bastianich's recipe. I usually use more basil than she calls for, and sometimes substitute walnuts for the almonds.
http://lidiasitaly.com/recipes/detail/853
http://food52.com/recipes/223_cod_mare_chiaro
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