(11.06.18 update: these are PERFECT in my Simple Living Products Air Fryer! 350F for 6-8 minutes or a little more if you want them to taste like candy. Add a little cheese and one minute more, yummm!)
I know I know, I’ve been posting all these yummy sweets the last few days and thought I better break that cycle for those of us who have started just eating pumpkin muffins all day.
If you’ve followed me for very long you know that my mother, Vegan Nana, is just that. Vegan. She changed her way of eating (and thinking!) due to health reasons last year. Nana feeds me some unique meatless, dairyless, even honeyless creation almost every Saturday and although she has not asked me to change my diet, let’s just say there is a strong influence each and every week. While I have no plans of going full on veggie-head I do find myself drifting towards a vegetarian lifestyle most meals. Note I said most meals…I can still down a bacon cheeseburger with the best of them. Eating a more plant based diet has done a few things for me though…no more tummy meds, fingernails are growing at an almost alarming rate, I’m using less lotion, and I think my skin looks better. I think. Plus eating and then posting a veghead recipe every once in a while gets Nana off my back even if just for a few days when she asks what I’ve been eating/posting.
Vegan Nana also had her first garden in years this summer. Her new apartment encourages outside and physically involved activities as enrichment for older adults otherwise trapped inside a high rise of pleasant, but small boxes. Her little spot did so well that the community representative has ok’d her for a double space to compost and mulch in prep for next season. Let’s just say the county saw her garden and raised her one. She is thrilled.
The last hoorah for this season were some good size but sad tomatoes that were not going to be pretty in anything. But Nana is a recycler…of anything…so of course she figured out a way to recycle End of Season leftover tomatoes. When I got there last Saturday the other garden ladies were getting the recipe and starting their own. Never ever think little old women don’t still run our lives through our stomachs, they’ve got us right where they want us.
End of Season Roasted Tomatoes
Prep
Cook
Total
Yield 10 servings
1 Weight Watchers Smart Point (1PPV) per serving (10 servings/2 halves per serving)
Ingredients
- Approximately 20 good sized sad end of season tomatoes (or 20-30 smaller tomatoes) - cut in half
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Non stick spray
- Parchment paper
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1 tsp dried Italian Seasoning
- 1/2 tsp organic raw sugar
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and then spray with non stick spray.
- Preheat oven to 300F.
- Place the tomatoes cut side up on the parchment paper.
- Drizzle with olive oil and roast for 1 hour or until they start to draw up and get juicy.
- Evenly sprinkle the garlic, Italian seasoning and sugar over the tomatoes (do NOT turn them over or cover them).
- Roast an additional hour and check to see if the edges are browning and the tops are starting to caramelize. If they are not quite done put back in oven for up to 30 more minutes checking every 10 minutes.
- Once read,y either serve immediately or allow them to completely cool and refrigerate or freeze. If you are not going to eat them like they are (which will be hard not to!) they are great chopped up in an Egg Mug, run through the food processor/blender for a rich and tasty tomato sauce, or *gasp* cover with your favorite cheese and broil again. I'm officially drooling... over sad tomatoes.
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***See how I made them in the Simple Living Products Air Fryer here (start at about 30 minutes)
