Finally a tomato glut! It?s been a rare sight last year and this but it?s nice to know it can still happen. While I also get tomatoes in my Food Connect box, the tomatoes in this bowl have all grown on my upstairs patio.

I?ve also had the biggest bunch of tomatoes in the five years I?ve been growing them. Including the two I had already harvested this bunch had eleven tomatoes on it. I?ve found the Father Tom tomatoes from Floriana have been particularly productive and this bunch just goes to prove it.

Tonight I?ve had the pleasure of working out how I?m going to use them. Homemade baked beans sprang to mind and I also decided to include some tomatoes in the kale pesto I had been planning to make tonight. The remaining tomatoes will go well on my lunch time salad so I?m sure this glut won?t become a burden.So I decided on a triple whammy! I made the kale and tomato pesto followed by cooking homemade baked beans and then finished off by making my dinner for tonight ? all in the Thermomix and only washing it after my dinner had come out. Now that?s what I call efficiency!I made the pesto the same way as last night except that I added 120g tomatoes to the mix. Adding the tomato gave a new dimension to the overall taste that was quite okay so I?ll probably continue adding tomatoes to pesto in the future. As much of the pesto as possible was placed into the ice cube tray leaving a small quantity in the Thermomix bowl to supplement the next item on the list.
Navy beans ...