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Great Tomato Recipe Contest 2011 – Winning Recipes

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Great Tomato Recipe Contest 2011 – Winning Recipes

1st Place Grand Prize: Gerald Cowan’s Tomato, Lettuce, Bacon (Reverse BLT) Sandwich on Homemade Sun-dried Tomato Herb Bread, served with Homemade Sun-dried Tomato Mayonnaise

  • Bread – 3 cups bread flour, 1 ¼ t. salt, ¼ t. dry yeast, 1 1/3 cup cool water, ½ cup sun-dried tomatoes, 2 small sprigs rosemary, 3 small sprigs oregano, 2 small sprigs basil, 2 sage leaves. Recipe is rather involved. See Jim Lahey’s No-knead Method online.
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Chilled Sun-Gold Tomato Soup

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Ingredients for Soup:

  • 2 pints Sun Gold tomatoes, stems removed
  • 2 shallots, finely diced
  • sea salt
  • 1 cup water

Ingredients for Relish:

  • 3 tbsp. Spanish Chardonnay vinegar or champagne vinegar
  • 2 tsps. finely diced and seeded serrano chile (optional)
  • 2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 firm avocado, pitted, peeled, and finely diced
  • 1 tbsp. chopped basil or cilantro

Directions:

Rinse the tomatoes and put them into a heavy saucepan with a tight-fitting lid. Add half the shallots, ½ teaspoon salt, … Continue Reading ...

Winning Recipes from the Great Tomato Recipe Contest

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Winning Recipes from the Great Tomato Recipe Contest

1st place overall and 1st Place Appetizer
from Becky Hamill and George Tittman
Janet Davis – Technical Advisor

Roasted Tomato Crostini with Summer Tomato Martini

For the Crostini:
Using Kogler’s Old World Bread baguette, sliver off most of the crust. Cut into very thin slices. Brush both sides with equal parts melted butter and olive oil. Toast in a 350 degree oven till golden and crunchy. These toasts will keep in the … Continue Reading ...

Old-Time Summer Tomato Soup

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Ingredients:

  • ½ cup (tight-packed) torn fresh basil leaves
  • Extra-virgin olive oil
  • 3 medium onions, finely chopped
  • Salt and fresh-ground black pepper
  • 3 large garlic cloves, minced
  • 3 lbs. local, fresh, ripe tomatoes (do not use Romas), chopped
  • 2 14-ounce cans of chicken broth
  • 4 cups homemade broth or two-14 ounce cans chicken or vegetable broth and 2/3 cup water
  • Generous ¼ tsp ground cinnamon, or to taste

Directions:

Combine the basil in a small cup. Crush leaves lightly until they … Continue Reading ...

Second Annual Great Tomato Recipe Contest Prize Winning Recipes

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Second Annual Great Tomato Recipe Contest Prize Winning Recipes

Tomato Sorbet (1st place)

Dessert Category
Don Tilton

Ingredients and Directions:

Whisk together 2 cups chilled tap water, 1 cup tomato water*, 2 tablespoons superfine sugar and 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice until sugar is dissolved. Transfer mixture to an ice cream machine and freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions. Spoon into bowls and garnish with fresh basil and cherry.

Serves 6

(*Tomato water: Puree ripe tomatoes and place the mixture in … Continue Reading ...

Welcome To Your Market.

Where Fresh Food is Rooted in Community.
The Historic Lewes Farmers Market (HLFM) is a non-profit organization with a producer-only farmers market located in Lewes, Delaware. The HLFM provides a family-friendly, community gathering place where consumers may purchase the freshest local foods available. It also provides alternative educational and marketing opportunities for emerging farmers and others to help create local and sustainable food systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable and socially responsible and which improve the variety, freshness, nutritional value and distribution of fresh farmland foods to the community. Welcome To Your Market--Where Fresh Food is Rooted in Community.