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If you're in the Northeast, like I am, you've been experiencing some pretty wicked cold temperatures lately. This time of year is perfect for roasting. The oven ticks and hums, creating luscious warm dishes and a house full of great smells, while the cold presses in vain against the windows.
I am silly with delight during the summer when tomatoes are at their peak. Warm from the sun and smelling of earth, I am known to eat summer tomatoes over the sink with intermittent splashes of salt. Of course I also search for every opportunity to marry tomatoes, mayonnaise and toast. Simple gorgeous delights.
However, at this point in the cold winter months, tomatoes are coming from faraway places and not the tender rich ripe fruit of the warmer days. Slow roasting is such a miraculous thing for the blander winter tomatoes. The roasting concentrates the flavor and turns meh into magic. Now who doesn't love that?
The Love Apple
The tomato is indeed a fruit, not a vegetable, and to be even more precise, it's a berry- but call it what you may, I adore the name love apple. Thought I'm not exactly sure of the origin, it's hard to not hard to imagine a romantic dinner without tomatoes of some kind (I'm looking at you Lady and The Tramp). Though it might be given this moniker due to it's heart friendly attributes. As a good source of lycopene, Vitamins C, A and E- all wonderful antioxidants- and a good source of fiber- tomatoes can keep that heart pumping and blood flowing through healthy veins.
The Magic of Slow Roasting
As I said before, slow roasting intensifies the flavors in tomatoes so beautifully,
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If you're in the Northeast, like I am, you've been experiencing some pretty wicked cold temperatures lately. This time of year is perfect for roasting. The oven ticks and hums, creating luscious warm dishes and a house full of great smells, while the cold presses in vain against the windows.
I am silly with delight during the summer when tomatoes are at their peak. Warm from the sun and smelling of earth, I am known to eat summer tomatoes over the sink with intermittent splashes of salt. Of course I also search for every opportunity to marry tomatoes, mayonnaise and toast. Simple gorgeous delights.
However, at this point in the cold winter months, tomatoes are coming from faraway places and not the tender rich ripe fruit of the warmer days. Slow roasting is such a miraculous thing for the blander winter tomatoes. The roasting concentrates the flavor and turns meh into magic. Now who doesn't love that?