Doesn't look like much, but it's super-concentrate of tomato essence, and will form the base of many future sauces. I meant to follow Marina's suggestion to spray Pam in the ice cube tray, but I forgot until it was too late. Well, I've only got the one tray, so that's that. I will divide the other container into a couple smaller ones.
The muffin tin produced the closest to true sun-dried-style tomatoes. I'd drizzled them with olive oil, and I think the little compartments made for more consistent drying. Those tomatoes are nice and chewy. I packed them in a sauce jar and covered them with more oil:
This may gross you out, but I'm reminded of my brother's tonsils, which he kept in a jar after his tonsillectomy as a kid.
They let him keep his tonsils?!?!? that is way cool. My sister didn't have hers... or maybe she didn't ask for them.
ReplyDeleteAs I said when you wrote about your dried tomato puree on my blog - you're a genius!
ReplyDeleteBut, your brother keeping his tonsils make me nervous. is that even legal? They didn't offer me mine when they were removed thank goodness!
I have my wisdom teeth in a box, but tonsils are way cooler. I wonder if he still has them.
ReplyDeleteMimi, he was maybe 10? And I'm pretty sure he insisted on keeping them.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dana! Why would it not be legal? I suppose today someone might balk, but not 30+ years ago.
Betts, they're long gone by now, but I remember looking at them with horrid fascination as a kid.