Comments on: New Year’s Eve Dinner, 2014 https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/new-years-eve-dinner-2014-2 A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:21:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marketman https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/new-years-eve-dinner-2014-2#comment-697048 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:21:21 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38620#comment-697048 GT, I get a lot of tomatoes from Toscana Farms, in Tagaytay. They have a stall on the way up from Silang to Tagaytay, at a gas station. Or you can go to the farm itself, it’s a little out of the way. In Makati, you can try DowntoEarth on Yakal Street, near Santis.

But once you get to a supplier, the biggest sin is that they REFRIGERATE tomatoes. They should never be refrigerated if at all possible. Just bring home fresh tomatoes, leave them out on the kitchen table or counter, until they ripen and use as you see fit. Refrigeration tends to make tomatoes “mealy” and I can’t stress enough why farm fresh tomatoes should never be refrigerated.

If I happen to find decent looking cherry tomatoes at places like S&R or Rustan’s, I take them home, rip off their plastic wrapping and leave them out to ripen. Hopefully, they haven’t been in the chillers for too long and you can get them to reverse the effects of their stay in the chilly temp.

I should say that there are articles that say the rule of NOT REFRIGERATING is bubkus, here, but I stick to the non-refrigeration as I find the tomatoes ripen and taste and have a nicer texture that way.

]]> By: GT https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/new-years-eve-dinner-2014-2#comment-697044 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:33:29 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38620#comment-697044 Hi MM your tomatoes look great! Where do you get them? Where can you get vine ripened plum or roma tomatoes here? The native tomatoes available in most stores are picked too green for my taste.

]]> By: ami https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/new-years-eve-dinner-2014-2#comment-697040 Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:45:12 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38620#comment-697040 What a coincidence. I was browsing thru the archives yesterday and ran across the Peter Luger post. Made a mental note to eat there next time I’m in New York.

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