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august was a tomato fest that is bleeding into september. we have been enjoying the various heirlooms, yellow and jersey tomatoes. i have been buying them in abundance. unfortunately they seem to get eaten before i get around to taking photos of them. they look so luscious in a big pile, and the heirlooms are amorphous, blobby and organically photo worthy.

i made some golden gazpacho soup, several avocado and tomato sandwiches, one day we made the most amazing BLT's, and we have enjoyed a few versions of a fish/tomato/olives recipe that is summer in your mouth. but the best way to eat a really good tomato is just sliced with some salt.

we bought a mess of tomatoes the other day, and i decided i want to make something out of them that we could freeze and then enjoy at some later date, when fresh summer tomatoes are but a distant memory.

so i oven roasted about 6 of them at 325 degrees for 2 and a half hours. the house was filled with that sweet roasty tomato smell. when they were done i peeled the skins off, blended them with the immersion blender, and poured the saucy sweet tomatoes into freezer bags. the plan (because there always needs to be a plan) is to wait until the first day we have to wear our winter coats, and on that day we will make some sweet savory sassy-fying roasted tomato soup. (probably accompanied by some toasted cheese)