When you’re the sort of one who appears ahead to slicing a Brandywine on the top of tomato season and consuming it straight (perhaps with just a little salt, nothing extra), then you’re in heaven proper now. We’re proper in that candy spot, flush with contemporary farmers market and home-grown tomatoes which are past juicy and candy.
So, to profit from this tomato season, we’re daring you to strive as many unconventional and new-to-you tomato recipes as you possibly can, 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 (assume: 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 liked or what you tweaked on Instagram or TikTok. You should definitely tag @food52 and #f52tomatothon once 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 taking advantage of your tomato haul, too, as we have a good time our favourite summer season fruit-maybe-vegetable.
Put aside your white bread and mayo (we’re you, Basic Tomato Sandwich) and prepare for some Massive Tomato Taste. To kick off Tomato-thon Week 1, we’re bringing in classics like a tomato galette and throwing a number of curve balls, like tomato salt (what?).
Let’s be actual: you’ve by no means questioned what to do with leftover tomato skins. However perhaps that’s since you didn’t understand you possibly can create a aromatic salt with them. Check Kitchen Director Allison Buford tried out this recipe and we will vouch that it’s a superb method to make use of the scraps from canning or saucing.
Chef Rick Martínez reinvents the tomato sandwich in a number of methods, first by zhuzhing up the mayo with basil and lemon, pan-frying panko-crusted crimson tomatoes, then drizzling spicy chile oil over the entire combo. We doubled the recipe in our workplace for our Tomato-thon launch get together, and our Senior Prop Stylist, Sarah Vasil, fell in love: “I may eat this sandwich every single day for the remainder of the summer season,” she mentioned.
Do not be fooled by these sweet-looking grilled tomatoes—Ali Slagle provides just a little chook’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 an excellent 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 no contemporary tomato salad? Keep tuned for Nea Arentzen’s White Bean and Tomato Salad dropping initially 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 offers us a a ruby crimson 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. Gradual roasting tomatoes with sugar, lemon, and spices, offers this unfold sweetness and depth.
Make your friends guess the elements on this refreshing lassi, filled with tomato, mango, and floral sumac.
Sarah Jampel totally 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 lightweight, and virtually screams for a calming glass of rosé to sip with it.
Week 4, August 26-Sept. 1: Saucy
These saucy recipes transcend traditional 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 can 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 famous person is without doubt one of the hottest tomato sauce recipes on the web for good motive. This model veers from the unique by calling for contemporary tomatoes, a luxurious we’ve proper now. (You may as well go full circle and use the skins within the tomato salt from Week 1!)
No time to attend in your tomatoes to simmer? Strive Emma Laperruque’s no-cook tomato sauce in your subsequent last-minute pasta evening—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) beneath!
