Here come the San Marzanos! Delicious and hearty-textured tomatoes like San Marzanos and Romas are perfect for storing and turning into sauce or paste. They're robust enough to add body and zing even after months in the freezer (or sealed in mason jars). To be honest, after our last marathon run...
Since mid-July, the test kitchen has been inundated with tomatoes. Eastern Tennessee had record-breaking temperatures and hardly any rainfall in June, followed by a few weeks of daily afternoon showers. As a result, many of us had to pick half-ripe tomatoes before the crazy weather caused them...
Late summer is upon us. The garden is needy, and the weather, until two days ago, had not been willing to do any of the obligatory watering for me. I mostly let the tomatoes go. They were on their way out anyway--four weeks of upper 90° weather and no rain will do that. I haven't had the nerve...
