Tag Archives: tomatoes

Shrimp Pasta in a Foil Package

OK, I confess. I didn’t actually cook this in a foil package. I just could bring myself to use THAT MUCH foil for a meal. I put it in a stoneware container with a lid and that seemed to work just fine. Actually, it worked perfectly. Such a simple, fresh meal to put together with [...]

backyard happenings

This is our second bowl of tomatoes like this. Full with patio tomatoes and yellow pear tomatoes. I don’t think I will ever get tired of these. But I will get tired of these: Tomato hornworms. There were two of them, one eating a jalapeno and the other eating my banana peppers. I plucked them [...]

Grilled Balsamic Skirt Steak with Sauteed Baby Spinach and Tomato-Vidalia-Blue Cheese Salad

Let me start this post out by saying how I am so ready for my tomato plants to start producing! I strongly dislike buying fresh tomatoes at the grocery store. They never really taste as good as I’d like. Thankfully I found some organic ones on sale for this recipe and they were decently tasty. [...]

Roast Chicken Breasts with Garbanzo Beans, Tomatoes, and Paprika

Ellie posted about this recipe awhile back and it peaked my interest. It’s not something I would have gravitated towards on my own but I thought I’d put aside my typical recipe leanings and give this one a shot especially since everything is this recipe is very healthy. It is so delicious! It’s supposed to [...]

Baked Ziti with Spinach and Tomatoes (and Sausage!)

I made this recipe Saturday for a potluck dinner on Saturday night and had so many requests for the recipe that I thought I’d go ahead and post the recipe here for all to see.  I picked it because it had so few ingredients and I thought I could increase the proportions to serve more people. [...]

Summer Garden Tortelloni

Trying to continue a summer theme for the dinner party we had, I made Summer Garden Tortelloni, which had tomatoes, corn, basil and proscuitto. It would have be easy enough to leave out the proscuitto and make the meal vegetarian – I didn’t really think the texture of the proscuitto added much to the meal. [...]