Here's what you should do with all those cherry tomatoes.

What to Do With a Glut of Cherry Tomatoes

treehugger.com 15 Aug '11, 3pm

Here's what you should do with all those cherry tomatoes.

Photo Credit: Colleen Vanderlinden. It's that time of year. Little tomatoes are taking over my kitchen. The garden has produced (as it does every year at this time...) a ridiculous amount of cherry, grape, pear, and currant tomatoes. Even my tomato-loving family can't eat all of the bounty. But we don't let food go to waste, and I know that, come December, I'll be missing tomatoes terribly. Luckily, there are several easy ways to preserve cherry tomatoes from your garden, CSA, or farmers' market. The problem is that, unlike paste or other tomatoes, cherry tomatoes are just too small to put through the whole canning process, which requires peeling and seeding the tomatoes prior to processing. I think if I tried to peel the mountains of cherry tomatoes on my counter right now, I would end up crying. So traditional canning is out. Ideas for Preserving Small Tomatoes I am a bi...

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