For those who’re the type of one that seems ahead to slicing a Brandywine on the top of tomato season and consuming it straight (possibly with somewhat salt, nothing extra), then you might be in heaven proper now. We’re proper in that candy spot, flush with recent farmers market and home-grown tomatoes which can be past juicy and candy.
So, to benefit from this tomato season, we’re daring you to attempt as many unconventional and new-to-you tomato recipes as you’ll be able to, throughout our month-long Tomato-thon. For inspiration, we curated a few of our favourite, most ingenious recipes and arranged them by class—Savory, Salad-y, Candy, and Saucy—as a result of we love a themed week, and to nudge you past your consolation zone (suppose: a fried tomato sandwich with chile oil, a roasted tomato jam, or a tomato-beet gazpacho).
We’re additionally hoping that you’ll present us what you make and inform us what you really liked or what you tweaked on Instagram or TikTok. Be sure you tag @food52 and #f52tomatothon whenever you do—we’ll be reposting your shares on Instagram Tales on the finish of every week. Keep tuned on our social channels for tips about rising and benefiting from your tomato haul, too, as we have fun our favourite summer season fruit-maybe-vegetable.
Put aside your white bread and mayo (we’re you, Basic Tomato Sandwich) and prepare for some Large Tomato Taste. To kick off Tomato-thon Week 1, we’re bringing in classics like a tomato galette and throwing a couple of curve balls, like tomato salt (what?).
Let’s be actual: you’ve by no means puzzled what to do with leftover tomato skins. However possibly that’s since you didn’t understand you’ll be able to create a aromatic salt with them. Check Kitchen Director Allison Buford tried out this recipe and we are able to vouch that it’s a wonderful option to make use of the scraps from canning or saucing.
Chef Rick Martínez reinvents the tomato sandwich in a couple of methods, first by zhuzhing up the mayo with basil and lemon, pan-frying panko-crusted purple tomatoes, then drizzling spicy chile oil over the entire combo. We doubled the recipe in our workplace for our Tomato-thon launch celebration, and our Senior Prop Stylist, Sarah Vasil, fell in love: “I may eat this sandwich on daily basis for the remainder of the summer season,” she mentioned.
Do not be fooled by these sweet-looking grilled tomatoes—Ali Slagle provides somewhat hen’s eye chile for warmth. Strive them with sticky rice to absorb the juices.
Erin Jeanne McDowell’s tomato-parmesan galette is a no brainer to ring in tomato season. It’s additionally excuse to interrupt out the Boursin cheese, used within the creamy, garlicky base beneath a layer of heirlooms.
Week 2, August 12-18: Salad-y
What’s summer season with out a recent tomato salad? Keep tuned for Nea Arentzen’s White Bean and Tomato Salad dropping at first of this week’s salad lineup!
Marcy Ragan combines three Italian classics (bruschetta, caprese, and panzanella) into one irresistible salad, made higher with toasty, grilled bread.
Carolina Gelen provides us a a ruby purple summer season salad utilizing watermelon and mint to raise the star of the present.
Caprese, however slice the tomatoes like Hasselback potatoes and stuff them with mozz. Marissa Mullen is a genius.
Week 3, August 19-25: Candy
We’re settling the fruit-or-vegetable debate as soon as and for all this week, with recipes that showcase a tomato’s pure sweetness.
Food52 founder Amanda Hesser developed this oven-friendly tomato jam recipe after being impressed by a Hotline dialog. Sluggish roasting tomatoes with sugar, lemon, and spices, provides this unfold sweetness and depth.
Make your company guess the components on this refreshing lassi, filled with tomato, mango, and floral sumac.
Sarah Jampel absolutely embraces the notion of tomato as fruit, with this tailored recipe from Little Flower Baking that makes use of tomato in each the marmalade filling and the frosting.
This summer-y bruschetta from Cheazza is easy and light-weight, and virtually screams for a calming glass of rosé to sip with it.
Week 4, August 26-Sept. 1: Saucy
These saucy recipes transcend basic tomato sauce (although we did throw in an oldie however goodie). We additionally use the phrase figuratively—as in, Check Kitchen recipe developer and creator César Pérez’s tomato and beet gazpacho, which is able to make an look in time for Week 4, is saucy.
Bacon fats, crusty bread, and tomatoes—what’s to not love? Topped with loads of parmesan cheese, Sarah Leah Chase’s impossibly straightforward scalloped tomatoes is a dish that Food52er Paula Marchese advisable as one in every of her go-tos every summer season.
Marcella Hazan’s four-ingredient celebrity is without doubt one of the hottest tomato sauce recipes on the web for good purpose. This model veers from the unique by calling for recent tomatoes, a luxurious we’ve proper now. (You may also go full circle and use the skins within the tomato salt from Week 1!)
No time to attend to your tomatoes to simmer? Strive Emma Laperruque’s no-cook tomato sauce to your subsequent last-minute pasta night time—or spoon it atop rice, and even scrambled eggs for an added burst of taste.
Did we go away off one in every of your favourite tomato recipes? Planning to take this tomato problem? Tells us the wins (or misses) under!
