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Tomato-basil jam grilled cheese

You’ve probably noticed by now I’m a big fan of the grilled cheese sandwich.   And ever since I made tomato-basil jam, I’ve been looking for a way to use it.  So when I got home and couldn’t think of a thing to make for dinner one night, I looked at…

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Tomato-basil jam

So we’re at the point of the year where I’ve made so many batches of tomato sauce that I’m actively searching for other things to do with all my tomatoes!  I could keep making sauce, but I’m kind of bored with that right now (I type as I’m sitting here…

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Tomato Pie Redux!

You may have noticed a pretty big gap between the tomato pie post and the Big Closet Purge post.  There’s a good reason for that: I was just so disgusted by the tomato pie.  I walked around looking like a disgusted Robert De Niro.  And people kept asking me what…

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Tomato pie – A Southern Classic?

People keep pinning Tomato Pie on Pinterest with all these claims that every Southerner loves these things.  As a definite Southern Girl, I was intrigued since I’ve never heard of such a thing.  I thought maybe some southerners had just renamed tomato quiche so I went to check out the…

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First Tomato Sauce of the Year!

It seems that the image most people have of making tomato sauce is grandmas stirring all day over these giant pots that they can’t even lift.  Not so in my kitchen.  I make tomato sauce a couple times a week from late June through September, and it’s really a pretty…

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