17 Tomato Recipes for Easy Family Meals (eHow Easy Recipes Kindle Book Series)

Learn how to make quick and easy tomato dishes for your family with Tomatoes: 17 Recipes for Easy Family Meals. Everyone loves to eat tomatoes and now you can make a variety of easy recipes, including soups, dressings, side dishes, and main dishes. Author Dana Carpender provides an introduction, interesting facts, nutritional info, and how to choose and prepare, before showing you what you can do with this healthy and nutritional food.


Excerpt from the Book:

Fun Tomato Facts
• 93% of home gardeners grow tomatoes
• The world’s heaviest tomato weighed in at 7 lbs., 12 oz.
• Tomato juice is the state beverage of Ohio.
• Cooked tomatoes boost the skin’s ability to fight the damaging effects of the sun.
• Tomatoes come in red, orange, yellow, pink, green, and even blue.
• Tomatoes were imported to Europe as an ornamental rather than an edible plant.
• As members of the nightshade family, tomatoes are kin to potatoes, peppers, eggplant, and tobacco.

Here’s a fact that deserves an entire paragraph: Bunol, Spain, hosts a tomato throwing festival every year. Over a hundred thousand tons of tomatoes are brought in to the small Spanish town. Some 50,000 people travel from all over the world to participate in the hour-long tomato-throwing event. But we still think cooking is a better use of tomatoes.


Table of Contents:

Background
Nutrition
Fun Tomato Facts
Choosing Tomatoes
Storage and Preparation
Recipes
• Side Dishes
• Main Dishes
• Soups
• Dressings


About the Author:

Best-selling author Dana Carpender was startled to discover that limiting her carbohydrate intake not only helped her control her weight, but produced the health and vitality a low fat diet had promised but never delivered. Years later, she laughs at people who say “You can’t eat that way long-term.” Her cookbooks are the result of her realization that the key to permanent dietary change is the answer to the age-old question, “What’s for supper?” She is the author of six cookbooks, including the national bestseller 500 Low-Carb Recipes. She is also the author of 500 Paleo Recipes, and How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds. Her books have sold over a million copies worldwide. Previously a syndicated national columnist, Dana is now managing editor of CarbSmart.com, and tries to keep up with her blog at HoldTheToast.com. Dana lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband and a menagerie of pets, all of whom are well and healthily fed.