Healthy Mama Magazine Issue 1 - July 2014 | Page 27

Tomatoes!

I can't get over how
amazing tomatoes are
when you drizzle them
with some extra virgin
olive oil, salt, pepper and
allow them to dry in the
sun, dehydrator or oven.

They become flavor
that are the very essence of the best pizza you’ve
ever eaten. Trust me. But wait - don’t trust me. Find
out for yourself by doing it. You won’t be sorry.

They taste so damn delicious that all
you need to do is make a meal and
throw them on some noodles. Bam.

see the next page for a recipe that
uses dried tomatoes! YUM!

You just made a mind-blowingly tasty dinner that
everyone will be jealous of. If they aren’t envious,
then they are definitely missing their sense of sight
or smell. Although the summer tomato crop from our
family garden is - needless to say - my favorite, I eat
them all, long before summer is over. So in the cooler
months we need to rely on other sources for my
tomato obsession.
My mom brought home a jar of organic sun-dried
tomatoes in extra virgin olive oil and spices yesterday
and I opened it up this afternoon only to have my
taste buds do a happy dance and memories of our
oven-dried tomatoes from summer sweep back
into my mind.

Ahh. flavor explosions.
I am confident I could have eaten the entire jar but
I held back and did the next best thing: threw some
of the tomatoes onto zuke noodles along with some
basil leaves. I’m gonna tear through that jar in no time,
so next week I think I’ll hit up the farmer’s market and
buy some more. *Can't wait* but *must wait*.
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