{"id":6178,"date":"2014-08-06T15:12:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2014-08-06T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:12:36","slug":"when-life-gives-you-splitters-make-tomato-confit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/2014\/08\/when-life-gives-you-splitters-make-tomato-confit\/","title":{"rendered":"When Life Gives You Splitters, Make Tomato Confit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC_7815\"<\/a>We\u2019re growing a new variety of tomato (which shall remain nameless at this point, as it is not proving itself to be all that it was cracked up to be!), which tends to split. Especially after a lot of rain like we just had. (To be fair, there are some delicious tomatoes that have this trait. Inconsistent water wreaks havoc with tomatoes.)<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like wasting all those splitters. Sadly, we used to feed them to Martha, Opti, Oreo, Sugar and the rest of our original hens. But they are no longer with us, and throwing one bowl of splitters into a yard of 200 hens is hardly fair, so I\u2019ve had to think of other solutions.<\/p>\n

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This week I simply cut them all up into chunks, tossed them with olive oil and salt, put them in a heavy roasting pan, and cooked them for about 2 hours at 300\u00b0. I checked on them from time to time, stirring and scraping. I cooked them until a lot of the moisture was gone and the texture was kind of jammy. At the very end, I folded in a little minced fresh garlic and a mixture of a small amount of balsamic vinegar and honey, and let the garlic soften and everything infuse for a couple minutes in the oven.<\/p>\n

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I left the cooked-down tomatoes to cool for a short spell in the pan, and then tasted. Delicious! Even though these tomatoes didn\u2019t start out with a very robust flavor, roasting them down concentrated their flavor (as roasting always does!). The result was kind of a confit (really just a tomato jam or conserve), though with seeds and skins left in, it might not be everyone\u2019s cup of tea. The seeds and skins don\u2019t bother me, and considering how dead simple this is\u2014and that it greatly extends the life of a bunch of tomatoes that otherwise would probably rot before you could eat them\u2014it\u2019s a no-brainer. You could literally do it with any tomatoes, any time.<\/p>\n

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I put the confit in a cute jar just to photograph it\u2014I was not intending to can it or keep it for very long. But I imagine it will keep at least a week in the fridge and would freeze just fine for longer. We\u2019ve put it on top of grilled bread with warm goat cheese, and I\u2019m planning to use the rest in a baked pasta. You could put some on top of scrambled eggs or in a quesadilla (yum), top a pizza or use it as a base for a flavorful rice dish. Why not?<\/p>\n

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