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It’s mid-October and we are still getting tomatoes out of our garden! (that’s big news in Minnesota for this time of year)  Many are turning red on the vine during this 2 week hot streak, but we also picked lots of green ones, put them in a paper bag, and set them in a cool dry place to ripen up.  I think we’re on the last of the paper bags which I find scattered throughout our kitchen.  It’s worked out really well, and as Rolf said as he checked a bag last night, “oooh! Christmas!”

My husband can eat tomatoes like apples.  I can not.  But, as seen here, I do love spaghetti, so the hundereds of tomatoes we’ve had this year has worked out well for me too.

Here are my 3 favorite things to do with home-grown tomatoes:

Caprese. Duh!

Peel, core, and freeze tomatoes for another day.  Though I hate actually doing this, I love being able to use our own tomatoes for soup, sauce, or stew in the dead of winter.

Some good ol’ spaghetti sauce.  Yum!