BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 05:47 PM

going to try that Q sound great

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 05:34 PM

We tend to make large stews, eat for two nights, then put remainder in containers, label, date, and freeze.
Use what vegetables you have; not all those on recipe needed. I may have posted a variation before.

BEEF AND VEGETABLE STEW

Cut up a two-three pound roast into bite-sized chunks
Salt and pepper
About two tablespoons olive oil
Few carrots, roughly chopped
Few celery stalks, roughly chopped.
Couple parsnips, roughly chopped
Few onions, roughly chopped
Couple turnips, roughly chopped
28 oz can whole tomatoes
1 can cooked beans (pinto, etc.)
1/2 bottle red wine (or tomato soup, basil added, if avilable, or broth, if all the wine is drunk)
Beef broth or stock to just cover
Few bay leaves
Oregano, thyme, rosemary; coarse grind
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Heat thick-bottomed pot, med.-high heat.
Put about 2 tablespoons olive oil in bottom of thick-bottomed pot.
Toss in meat, one layer at a time, and brown evenly.
Sprinkle with salt, pepper, or seasoning salt.
Add part of onions and brown slightly
Add about half chopped vegetables
Add tomatoes, wine and beef broth (or stock) to just cover solids.
Cook until meat tender.
Add rest of vegetables (don't want them mushy)
Cook at low heat for about one hour, testing for seasoning.
Toss on chopped bell pepper, green onion or chives.
Cook another 5-10 minutes.

Sometimes we sprinkle cheddar or parmesan cheese on servings.

Serve with bread, corn bread, and butter, and chopped vegetable salad (my wife likes sliced grapes in hers).

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 04:40 PM

One pan, no mess, quick and yummy meal

Cut up one onion and hold at ready
Brown piece of meat for this meal in med hot frying pan (olive oil if needed, or whatever   you use)
When meat is browned, remove it to a plate
Put in more oil and start browning onion
Cut up a green/red/yellow bell pepper (your choice) into browning onion. MOVE FAST
Slice into pan two or three 6-8 inch zucchinni
Before anything gets too browned,
add maybe half a large can of stewed tomatoes (or a couple fresh ones wedged.
Turn heat down to very low
Put meat on top of well mixed, now simmering veggies and simmer until zuke is as tender as you like it. Meat will cook more also.
Serve
This makes enough for two of us and some left over for Rob's breakfast!

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 04:27 PM

A lot of canned tomato producers have taken to adding citric acid, supposedly as an "acidity regulator", in spite of the fact that canned tomatoes have always been perfectly OK without it.

So if citric acid doesn't agree with you - beware!

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 04:10 PM

Sounds good guys.

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:55 PM

I also take green peppers, I mix up some lean ground beef, rice, 1 egg to hold it together, salt and pepper the meat. I then cut the top off the green peppers and pull out the seed, Now stuff the peppers with the ground beef and rice mixture (use minute rice) ... now I add 1 can of whole tomatoes, 1 can of crushed, 1 can of tomato soup (large can) and a can of water.   Put it in the oven 400 degrees for about 3 hours ... my goodness it is wonderful ... but don't forget the tomato soup, it makes the sauce really sweet .. It is wonderful no kidding

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:52 PM

You could make a nice minestrone soup with canned tomatoes, perhaps broken up, some dried various beans and lentils, whatever vegetables you have around..carrots, onions, garlic, peppers, zucchini toward the end..add some macaroni at the end and some pesto if you have it..put lots of basil and perhaps a bit of oregono and salt and pepper in early on. Food of the gods. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:49 PM

Thanks guys.

ANY recipe using canned tomatoes is what I am looking for.

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:49 PM

Olddude, that is good one! We do something similar and put it on brown rice.

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:46 PM

With the 'Italian' type tomatoes available whole, cut or crushed in large cans for about a dollar, we use these in every stew where tomatoes add liquid and color. Beef, chicken or pork, all types of bean and vegetable stews, we usually add a can of these tomatoes.
Recipes for them specifically? Haven't done that.

I will look out a couple of stew type recipes we particularly like.

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:43 PM

Here is my secret Spaghetti sauce
        

1) cut up a nice chuck roast or half or rump roast into stew size chunks
2) cut up two or three pork chops into stew size chunks

Ok now add some olive oil to a pan and put in 3 or 4 cut up sections of fresh garlic
and brown the meat, really really brown it like you could eat it ... very important

Next add two cans of whole tomatoes and 1 can of crushed tomatoes
Next add 1 can of tomatoe paste

add 1 can of water, I ususally use one can of water using the whole tomatoe cans to measure the water


Put a lid on the pot and simmer for 3-4 hours

It will make the best spagetti in the world no kidding ... now make your spagetti, drain it
and sprinkle the spagetti with parmesan cheese ..

put the sauce on and enjoy ... notice the only seasoning is the garlic. This recipie is right from Italy and it is the best
in the world

Subject: RE: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:40 PM

Cook some chunks of chicken meat with green peppers, onions, minced garlic and other such things. Add a can of tomatoes. Put in some rice. As the rice absorbs the moisture add dried oregano, basil, parsley, and a squirt of hot sauce.

You can also add some sausage and seafood to the mess and you have jambalaya.

Subject: BS: Recipes using canned tomatoes
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:01 PM

Or canned tomatos... either will do. Couldn't find much of anything too "interesting" on Google.

Thanks in advance.