Tyler’s Ultimate Tomato Salads by Kirsten Vala in View All Posts, August 25th, 2010
- Tyler's Heirloom Tomato Chow-Chow
We’re teaming up with other food and garden bloggers to host Summer Fest 2010, a season-long garden party. Each week we’ll feature favorite garden-to-table recipes and tips to help you enjoy the bounty, whether you’re harvesting your own goodies or buying them fresh from the market. To join in, check out awaytogarden.com.
Tyler Florence has a knack for creating the “ultimate” stand-by dishes. With tomatoes at their peak, I decided to tap his culinary know-how for farm-stand inspiration.
Heirloom Tomato Chow-Chow
Tyler add lots of spices to his Chow-Chow, a pickled, mustard-flavored relish perfect for picnic spreads.
Cherry Tomatoes with Buttermilk Blue Cheese Dressing
Fresh tomatoes are transformed into a decadent side, dressed with creamy, buttermilk blue cheese dressing.
- Fresh tomatoes dressed with Tyler's creamy blue cheese dressing.
Simple Caprese Salad
Tomatoes, basil and mozzarella — it doesn’t get much simpler or fresher than this.
Bonus: Tyler’s Fried Green Tomatoes How-To
Catch more Tyler, Sundays at 9pm/8c and Wednesdays at 8pm/7c on his exciting new show, The Great Food Truck Race.
More Tomatoes with Friends and Family:
- Heirloom Tomatoes with Alison at Food2
- Easy Tomato Tart from Liz at the Cooking Channel
- Top Ten Things to Do With Tomatoes from Healthy Eats
- Alexis at Food Network UK: The seven deadly tomato sins
- Nicole at Pinch My Salt: What to do with slow-roasted tomatoes
- Margaret at A Way to Garden: More than one way to ripen a tomato
- Diane and Todd at White on Rice Couple: Sun-dried tomatoes (actually made in the sun!)
- Paige at The Sister Project: 3 substantial, healthy, vegetarian tomatoey main dishes
- Kelly at Just a Taste: Tomato Jam
- Marilyn at Simmer Till Done: Cherry Tomato & Maytag Blue Beignets
- Alana at Eating From the Ground Up: Roasted Green Salsa (green zebras and tomatillos), and how late August makes her hurt for New Mexico
- Caron at San Diego Foodstuff: Chunky Garden Gazpacho with Flowered Corn Tortillas and Melissa Clark’s Tomato Tarte Tatin
- Judy of Divina Cucina: Tomatoes the Italian way
- Caroline at the Wright Recipes: Savory Tomato Crumble
- Tigress in a Pickle: Over 50 ways to preserve tomatoes in jars
Past Summer Fest Picks:
Paula’s Perfect Peach Cobbler, The “Other” Summer Greens, FN Chefs’ Creamed Corn-Off and Paula’s Best Zucchini Bread.
Join the conversation on twitter at #summerfood.
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Tags: summer, summer fest, tomato, Tyler Florence
i cannot wait for tyler's restaurant to open here in napa! i posted my recipe for slow roasted tomatoes and gott's roadside http://www.napafarmhouse1885.blogspot.com/ restaurant's version of gazpacho
Yay! It’s finally Tomato Week! I’m celebrating all week by posting some new tomato recipe discoveries as well as some old family faves. Yesterday, I began with Neely’s Chicken Salad in Tomato Cups:
http://www.wineimbiber.com/index.php/2010/08/need…
In the upcoming days I’ll have Ina Garten’s Scalloped Tomatoes, Paula Deen’s Tomato Pie and my own take on Caprese Salad. I sure have enjoyed playing along with all the Summer Fest 2010 participants. I also learned a lot of useful info for my garden next summer. Thank you Margaret for creating this event!
Yum!
My contribution to "tomato week" is here:
http://blog.healthy-green-lifestyle.com/tomato-gi…
Wow – that blue cheese buttermilk idea sounds amazing. Our favorite salad of late is this tomato, goat cheese and basil salad – simple, quick and very, very good http://guinnah.blogspot.com/2010/08/tomato-goat-c…
Chow chow sounds good.
Here's my summerfest contribution, green tomato pie http://sweetsavoryplanet.blogspot.com/2010/08/gre…
I made tomato and roasted red pepper gazpacho with creme fraiche
http://www.veggiebelly.com/2010/08/tomato-roasted…
am loving all the inspiration!
was great to participate with all of you!
Grazie
Love your tomatoes! See my contributions for Summer Fest here http://dejavucook.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/tomato… and also http://dejavucook.wordpress.com2010/08/28/roasted…
Tyler: I am apending the Thanksgiving holiday with my 95 year old dad, I wanted to make him your Bannana Merangepumpkin Pie. I watched the Ultimate Thanksgiving show , tommorow I leave can you please share the recipe. Thank you so much Katheryn
IS TYLER FLORENCE DONE ?