What to do with a load of canned tomatoes?

[diablo]

I opened a restaurant sized can of plum tomatoes last night for tomato sauce and I have ALOT leftover. Anyone have any ideas for what I can do with the remainder besides use it to make more tomato sauce? Thanks!

[NYchowcook]

Chicken cacciatore
Lentil soup w/ tomatoes
Pot roast or other braised meat
Marcella Hazan's roasted potatoes w/ tomatoes (yum!)
You can probably freeze some.

[diablo]

Can you elaborate a little on the roasted potatoes w/tomatoes recipe? Thanks for the feedback!

[NYchowcook]

2 pounds potatoes, peeled and sliced 1/4 inch thick
2 c onions, sliced thin
1 lb tomatoes (I tear up canned tomatoes)
3/4 c grated romano
3/4 t dried oregano
1/3 c. olive oil

Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Mix potatoes w/ onion, tomato, cheese, oregano, S&P and 1/2 c. water. Mix well.
Put 1 T olive oil in baking dish and rub around to cover bottom. Put potato mixture into baking dish and pour in remaining olive oil. Bake about 1 hour on top of oven until potatoes are soft, turning potatoes every 20 minutes or so.
Let sit to cool a little and serve warm, not hot.

[diablo]

Thank you :)

[Tay]

As with leftover stock, you can freeze some in ice cube trays (Plastic) and zip loc for use in future meals. Great and very cost effective for when you just want a 'touch' of tomato

[bear]

Cream of tomato soup with one of the grilled cheese sandwiches from that thread might be good comfort food this time of year.

Here are a couple of links that I haven't tried.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_16474,00.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_37470,00.html

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/442868

[speyerer]

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/467807

[piccola]

I would freeze a great deal, then use the rest for soup - probably cabbage soup, which I've been eating like crazy for the past two weeks (no, not on a diet, I just love this stuff).

[speyerer]

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/467807

[ymushi]

agree to everybody !
some for freeze , some for tomato soup, maybe home made pizza sauce,too.
beef stew ? salsa ?

I like this baked eggs,too.
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/42...

tomatoes are never too much !

[mamaciita]

(Almost) instant salsa:

Roast up some red onions, garlic cloves, and a jalapeno or two until they're a little bit charred, chop, stir in to the tomatoes, add salt, red wine vinegar, and chopped cilantro.

We go through gallons of canned tomatoes (Muir Glen fire-roasted are our favorites) making this salsa. If I don't have fresh jalapenos, I use canned chipotles in adobo.

[thekitchensink]

I really like Ina Garten's Roasted Tomato soup and it calls for a large amount of canned tomatoes. It also freezes really well, if you're looking for a way to freeze the tomatoes in a ready-to-use way (i.e. not just freezing the tomatoes themselves, as suggested by Tay). Recipe on foodnetwork.com.

[Tom P]

You can slow roast them - drain them, toss them with salt, pepper, EVOO and herbs, slow roast them in the oven (on a large baking sheet or in a baking dish) about 3 hours on 250. They are then wonderful many ways: on pizzas, in sandwiches, in eggs, etc etc. You can cover them with olive oil and they keep a while in the fridge. I usually have a bowl of these in my fridge. I love to just eat them with bread as a snack.

[MaggieRSN]

Hear, hear.

To everything you said.

Plus just plopped by themselves on some pasta with some really good quality, fresh-grated or shaved Reggiano or Pecorino and an extra tiny drizzle of a robust EVOO.

[josie888]

tomato soup
salsa
ketchup

[Quine]

Besides "What inspired you to open a #10 can of tomatoes for a home use recipe???!?" comment. I would comment as such:
a) if you opened a can of whole tomatoes in juice, freeze half in home recipe amounts.
b)For the other half, blend, food process into a smooth liquid. Of that portion some into 1 cup amounts and freeze. And also make "ice cubes" of it. After the "ice cubes" have frozen, store in the freezer in a zip-sealed thingie.

Use any of these to add a zing to a recipe! Or even in the recipe that you make next time that you opened this huge can for. :)

[diablo]

LOL! My husband brought them home from a restaurant he works at that closes for the winter season. I wanted some tomato sauce and I was too lazy to go to the supermarket......

[bear]

So, what'd you make?

[diablo]

So far I've made beef stew and the roasted potatoes/tomatoes from the recipe above (delish!). Soup's next after I (finally) get to the supermarket today. I also want to try Tom P's suggestion of slow roasting them. I'll freeze any I have left. I love tomatoes, but I'll probably be all tomatoed out after that :) Thanks for all the suggestions!