Frozen Tomato Trick

Last year our garden produced more tomatoes than we could eat. I could have bottled them, of course, but my mom told me how you could simply plop them in the freezer. That's what I did, and I have loved using them all year long.

If you don't have a garden, go to a farmer's market and buy tons of "canning tomatoes" for a very good price. Once you get them, here's what you do:

1. Wash tomatoes.
2. Cut out the top of the tomatoes.
3. Put the tomatoes in a freezer bag.
4. Seal the bag, label it, and toss it in your freezer.

Sounds tough, huh!?

Now, the magic is that when you want to make spaghetti sauce, or chili, or anything else that requires canned tomatoes, you simply take however many you need out of the bag, run them under hot water, and the skin simply falls right off! Then you can just dice it up and throw it in.