How often do you eat tomato-based meals?

[Deleted]

I mean assuming you're an adult, just substitute it for other stuff, you can make excellent pasta sauces using bell peppers instead of tomatoes, same for salads.

[Sunseeker]

I find the American varieties a little too sweet for my tastes, needs more vinegar or red wine.

Everything is improved with red wine.

[Kithelle]

Tomatoes are amazing so I'm not sure what you're upset about.

Yeah...I love tomato...plain...in/on foods...made from...you name it.

[Elegiac]

Everything is improved with red wine.

Or vinegar.

[Sunseeker]

Or vinegar.

Yes but one of those is a little more pleasant to drink on its own.

[Jayburner]

Yes but one of those is a little more pleasant to drink on its own.

what about malt vinegar?

[Elegiac]

Yes but one of those is a little more pleasant to drink on its own.

Not so - crap red wine is still good if you cook with it.

[Sunseeker]

Not so - crap red wine is still good if you cook with it.

Yeah but then you're really just using lightly flavored vinegar.

[Jayburner]

can someone tell me why they took out malt vinegar from HP Sauce and replaced with white vinegar. I'm kind of on a protest ban with that brown sauce

[Reg]

I never really thought about it, but I have a very diverse diet. Tomatoes don't really make up much of it. Even when I go for a pasta dish, the sauce isn't usually tomato-based. I do love tomatoes though, I'll eat a handful of those cherry tomatoes for a snack. So good.

[Milchshake]

When may plants start producing, im eating tomatoes every day from July to October.

[Reg]

Oh, and I can't forget a nice tomato and mozzarella salad. Also very good.

[belfpala]

Sorry to break it to you, but most of the best pizzas start with whole tomatos as the base of their sauce.

I've never seen a good pizza made with anything but roma or plum tomatoes. They can be canned whole and skinless or fresh. Pelati, in the post you're quoting just means peeled, if my italian is up to date. The best pizza sauce I've ever had was just fresh roma tomatoes crushed with some garlic, and salt. Not cooked before cooking the pizza. /shrug.

Back OT: I haven't had a tomato other than on pizza or jarred salsa for probably a month or two. They're out of season here. I can get some from greenhouse farmers that do the trick, but not for personal use.

[Stormspark]

Tomato based? Very rarely. I occasionally eat tomato soup. I take a can of tomato soup, mix with milk, and eat with crackers. Not that often though. Stuff that contains tomato? Pretty often. Spaghetti. Pizza.

[S7orm]

My parents have an apartment on the Gulf of Genoa and move there every other month for a few days. Whenever they get back we have two weeks worth of pesto but for the rest of the year tomato sauce reigns supreme over pasta. And every day is pasta day in Italy

[belfpala]

Regardless, the point stands that tomatos are the basis for most pizza sauce. The really good ones I have had started with whole tomatos that were cooked into a sauce using salt, a little EVOO and some garlic. Some places use basil and/or oregano as well. It depends on what style they're making. Hell, when I was a kid my favorite "pizza" was

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Yuck!

The simplest pizza is just crushed tomatoes. A little olive oil on the crust, ladle some crushed tomatoes, top with a few basil leaves and fresh mozzarella. Cooking the sauce isn't mandatory.

But, that goes into arguments about pizza. Nobody can win that argument.

And OT again... I'm trying to think of meals in which tomato is more than a component or condiment. Tomato soup (which comes in variations, such as gazpacho, etc.), ...i'm drawing a blank.

[Salty Maud]

I am literally eating a tomato-based meal right now. Just made myself some spaghetti. Yesterday i had pizza. Actually i probably eat tomato in pretty much every meal. Is good.

[Stormspark]

I am literally eating a tomato-based meal right now. Just made myself some spaghetti. Yesterday i had pizza. Actually i probably eat tomato in pretty much every meal. Is good.

Tomato based means tomato is the primary ingredient. Pizza and spaghetti don't qualify. They do contain tomato though.

[Thunderball]

Tomatoes are indeed everywhere. I hate them though, so trying to stay as far away as possible. Doesnt work everytime.

[Doomislav]

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