This is the year of the tomato for us – our best harvest in three years. Two years ago the blight attacked our tomatoes and last year due to an extremely busy schedule we didn’t do a good job of trellising and keeping the tomatoes off ground. Our freezer was looking mighty empty of our favorite garden produce.
Tomatoes in Dryer - Before
We’ve been making lots of sauce for the freezer and as you can see from the pictures we’ve been drying cherry type tomatoes. The dried tomatoes are great reconstituted with a little water and balsamic vinegar and used for pizza toppings, grilled cheese sandwich additions and dried tomato pesto, just to name a few.
Dried Cherry Tomatoes - After
If you don’t have a food dehydrator just use your oven set at 200 degrees with the door slightly ajar to let the moisture escape. There are lots of drying methods on the world wide web so give it a try.