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Oven Dried Tomato Video How-To: Use up those roma tomatoes before they go bad

7th August, 2010 - Posted by shawn - No Comments

Normally our roma tomatoes do very well, but this year we had a whistlepig eat them during the flowering stage so they have produced very few tomatoes and now are mostly dead.  So sad, but I guess groundhogs need to eat too.

We are lucky though that Spiral Path Farm CSA will be offering 25lbs of organic roma tomatoes for $6 to their CSA members at their next open farm day on August 21st.  We are definitely going to take advantage of that and dry some for later use.

Our dehydrator does a great job with the tomatoes, but if we didn’t have one we’d still be able to dry them in the oven.  For a well done video on how to oven-dry roma tomatoes check out this video by Keith Snow.  He adds thyme to his tomatoes and I don’t like to do that – it can sometimes take on a burnt flavor in the oven.  Better to just store fresh thyme in the jar with the tomatoes I think.  Garlic cloves can work well here too since the tomatoes are to be kept in the fridge or freezer.  Garlic in oil should NOT be left out on the counter or in the pantry.  It can go bad even if submerged in oil.