Holy moly have I had some good dinners lately. These vegetable boxes really reshape the way you eat, and I highly recommend this method to anyone looking to shake up their eating habits.
A had half a pint of grape tomatoes left, so I decided to make my own quick, dumbed down tomato sauce for pasta, and it was delicious! Here's a good 10 minute seafood marinara.
The ingredients and equipment you'll need:
1/2 pint of grape tomatoes
diced onions
minced garlic
dry white wine
basil
oregano
salt
red pepper flakes (optional, but far and away one of my favorite spices)
1 pan
food processor
First I put the tomatoes in a pan on medium to medium high heat, depending on the quality of your pan. Get a good sear on the outside of the tomatoes, and every so often shake them around in the pan so another side sears.
Then I added them to my handy Cuisinart mixer. It is such a great kitchen addition: small enough that you can fit it anywhere and, if I recall, only 30 bucks or so. I pulsed the mixture and then added it back to the pan.
Have your wine ready to go, because the tomatoes will stick a bit when you reintroduce them to the pan. A splash or two of wine helps make sure it doesn't stick and burn, and also makes you look like a kitchen badass when a puff of steam explodes from the pan.
From there, I added the onion, since I knew I was going to cook down a lot of vegetables. If I didn't add broccoli and zucchini to the pan, I'd get a new pan and put some olive oil in it to sweat down the onions and then the garlic.
Then add garlic, about a teaspoon. The rest of the seasonings are really to taste. I put a LOAD of basil and about half a load of oregano. This recipe certainly needs a good salting, so add that to taste. The red pepper flakes add great heat to the dish. I added them to the shrimp that I eventually cooked in the sauce.
I have to say, for not being roasted for hours, these tomatoes tasted delicious! A good step one toward my summer dream of canning my own tomatoes.
Here's the final product:
Also, just a blogkeeping note for anyone keeping up: I'm going to label every entry with the vegetable or fruit used, so you can search a produce item and get results for it!
A had half a pint of grape tomatoes left, so I decided to make my own quick, dumbed down tomato sauce for pasta, and it was delicious! Here's a good 10 minute seafood marinara.
The ingredients and equipment you'll need:
1/2 pint of grape tomatoes
diced onions
minced garlic
dry white wine
basil
oregano
salt
red pepper flakes (optional, but far and away one of my favorite spices)
1 pan
food processor
First I put the tomatoes in a pan on medium to medium high heat, depending on the quality of your pan. Get a good sear on the outside of the tomatoes, and every so often shake them around in the pan so another side sears.
Then I added them to my handy Cuisinart mixer. It is such a great kitchen addition: small enough that you can fit it anywhere and, if I recall, only 30 bucks or so. I pulsed the mixture and then added it back to the pan.
Have your wine ready to go, because the tomatoes will stick a bit when you reintroduce them to the pan. A splash or two of wine helps make sure it doesn't stick and burn, and also makes you look like a kitchen badass when a puff of steam explodes from the pan.
From there, I added the onion, since I knew I was going to cook down a lot of vegetables. If I didn't add broccoli and zucchini to the pan, I'd get a new pan and put some olive oil in it to sweat down the onions and then the garlic.
Then add garlic, about a teaspoon. The rest of the seasonings are really to taste. I put a LOAD of basil and about half a load of oregano. This recipe certainly needs a good salting, so add that to taste. The red pepper flakes add great heat to the dish. I added them to the shrimp that I eventually cooked in the sauce.
I have to say, for not being roasted for hours, these tomatoes tasted delicious! A good step one toward my summer dream of canning my own tomatoes.
Here's the final product:
Also, just a blogkeeping note for anyone keeping up: I'm going to label every entry with the vegetable or fruit used, so you can search a produce item and get results for it!
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