In this post, we’ll talk about how to freeze summer tomatoes at their peak of freshness to use in dishes later in the year.Rather than turning all your tomatoes into sauce, this method allows you to save tomatoes for a wide variety of cooked recipes!  This is a PSA that my mom wanted me to share with all of you (“Sarah, you do it!”).She’s filling the new chest freezer in her basement with bags and bags of tomatoes as we speak! Why Freeze Tomatoes? Tomatoes are one of our top summer crops.

In fact, if I could choose only one thing to grow every summer, it would be tomatoes.The difference in taste between a garden tomato and a grocery store one is night and day, making the whole endeavor more than worth it.  In fact, when I was a kid, I thought I didn’t like raw tomatoes.They were kind of tasteless and sometimes mealy or mushy.

It wasn’t until I tried a garden tomato—that my parents grew in a small patch in our backyard—that I realized I did like them.  Of course, the optimal situation would be to eat all of your delicious garden tomatoes fresh.We love them raw in tomato sandwiches and salads, and we have a rotation of cooked recipes to use them in, including:  Roasted Cherry Tomato Puttanesca  Ratatouille Pasta  Stir-fried Tomato & Eggs Tomato Egg Drop Soup Tomato Egg Drop Noodle Soup Beef Stir-fry with Tomatoes  Tomato Potato Soup Tomato Hot Pot with Beef But between all this eating and cooking and sharing with family, friends, and neighbors,

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