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Roasted Tomatoes

I have a fantastically easy way to use up lots of ripe tomatoes. After peeling and coring, cut up tomatoes in medium chunks and place in a large, non-reactive dutch oven (avoid tall pans like stock pots). I use an enamel coated dutch oven.

Fill the pot as full as possible with the tomatoes. Place in oven, uncovered at 250 degrees for 48 hrs. Stir tomatoes every 10 hrs or so. The top layer of tomatoes will "roast" which is why stirring is important. This roasted flavor gives the tomatoes a wonderful, earthy flavor that is perfect for soup, salsa, ketchup, barbque sauce or whatever.

Another advantage to this method is it drastically reduces the number of jars needed for canning tomatoes.

Jonid

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RE: Cleaning a Hairbrush or Dog Brush

A fine toothed comb works great too.
Then the hair brush can be washed with the dogs shampoo also.

Post by RoxysMom

RE: Cleaning a Hairbrush or Dog Brush

Great ideas here. I've always kept a dinner fork with my dog brush. The tines are just wide enough to easily pull all of the hair up to the end of the bristles. Hope this helps someone else.

Post By msfixit (Guest Post)

RE: Cleaning a Hairbrush or Dog Brush

It never dawned on me that folk struggle to remove hair from a brush :-o

Both my parents were hairstylists from the time I was born. I followed their footsteps and was a hairstylist for thirty years and we always used a comb to clean brushes (and of course cleaned and sanitized after that).

This post goes to show that we should all always share details even about the little things that might seem easy and natural to us but are not at all easy and natural to others.

Thanks for sharing :-)

Post by Deeli

RE: Cleaning a Hairbrush or Dog Brush

We have four cats that we brush several times a day. What I have found that does an excellent job of removing the hair from the brushes is to turn on the vacuum cleaner and place the hose onto the bristles. It sucks the hair right out and it's clean again! Doesn't take but a few seconds to do this and it saves on the finger tips. =(^-^)=

Post by 1burrell

RE: Cleaning a Hairbrush or Dog Brush

When I bought my grooming equipment back in the mid 80s, I bought a Belgium style metal comb [coarse/medium] at UPCO and use that for taking the hair from their brushes. It has lasted all these years for about $10!

Post by JoanDogs

RE: Roasted Tomatoes

I discovered that it is actually possible to freeze tomatoes. All I do is core them, and put them in freezer bags. I don't wash them because that will make them get soggy in the freezer. For cherry tomatoes, yellow plum tomatoes or other small tomatoes, I just freeze them whole in double freezer bags.

Post by skbeal

RE: Roasted Tomatoes

It is so hot when the tomatoes are ripe and I don't have air conditioning. I wouldn't be able to roast them at that time. Do you think I could freeze the tomatoes and roast them when the weather cools down? Thank you.

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