# A surfeit of tomatoes. Ideas? Want some?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-surfeit-of-tomatoes-ideas-want-some/697032>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 31, 2014, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-surfeit-of-tomatoes-ideas-want-some/697032 "2014-08-31T06:44:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-surfeit-of-tomatoes-ideas-want-some/697032/41 "2014-09-03T14:53:05Z")

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I spent all day Monday canning tomatoes and tomato sauce. We smoked them first with a little bit of cherry or apple wood chips, then added roasted garlic, basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, paprika, salt and pepper and simmered for a couple hours. Short trip through the blender to smooth it out just a little, boil in the canner and we ended the day with 43 litres of various tomato products.

It’s going to be a good winter.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-surfeit-of-tomatoes-ideas-want-some/697032/42 "2014-09-03T17:00:38Z")

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> [@Moonlitherial](#):
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> I spent all day Monday canning tomatoes and tomato sauce. We smoked them first with a little bit of cherry or apple wood chips, then added roasted garlic, basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, paprika, salt and pepper and simmered for a couple hours. Short trip through the blender to smooth it out just a little, boil in the canner and we ended the day with 43 litres of various tomato products.
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> It’s going to be a good winter.

We’re doing ours in a couple of weeks. We usually just go with tomatoes and basil, without any smoke. Yours sound good, but more like a pasta sauce. I use ours for chili and other dishes, so best to go light on the herbs. Next week is peaches!

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**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-surfeit-of-tomatoes-ideas-want-some/697032/43 "2014-09-05T21:55:41Z")

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> [@chiroptera](#):
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> **Dingoel** , my inner 8-year-old boy is amused by the idea of dropping them on cars from a freeway overpass. But that would be wrong, and illegal, and a very silly thing for me to do!

I think it would be a felony – and, more importantly, a terrible way to waste good tomatoes.:smack:

Need a better way to waste good tomatoes?  
Political campaign season seems to have started…😃

–G!  
You say tomayto  
I say tomahto…

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**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-surfeit-of-tomatoes-ideas-want-some/697032/44 "2014-09-08T15:32:01Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> We’re doing ours in a couple of weeks. We usually just go with tomatoes and basil, without any smoke. Yours sound good, but more like a pasta sauce. I use ours for chili and other dishes, so best to go light on the herbs. Next week is peaches!

Yes the described additions were all for the pasta sauce. For the crushed tomatoes we added nothing but a touch of lemon juice because it’s the first time in years I’ve done canning and I’m being very cautious 🙂

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