[Tilted Irish Kilt]

sockmonkey:" Except for Romas, juliets, and cherry, my tomatoes are mostly just sitting there."
DIana in Wisconsin(last weeks post #58):
"Ummm...you do know I work for a seed company, Right? LOL!
I’ve found some good ones through the years - the only ones I like to dry are the Juliets."

Have you tried drying/ dehydrating the Juliets ?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Juliets: I’ve oven-dried 6 cookie sheets worth so far with more to come.

[sockmonkey]

Have you tried drying/ dehydrating the Juliets ?

No, but I should. I have a bunch on the kitchen table right now.

I mostly grow stuff, and then look for people to pawn it off on..So, after you dehydrate them, what do you do with them? What oven temp? I have a gas oven, but no pilot light which was good for dehydrating stuff in my old oven.

[Black Agnes]

I have dried Juliets. They did fabulously. Used them like that in recipes that called for dried tomatoes.

I also put some of them (dried crispily) into my food processor and then strained out the seeds/big bits and used the tomato powder in recipes. That was fabulous as well. I cook roasts in the crock pot a lot and I schmear some tomato powder + garlic powder on top of that when I first put it in there. Yummy.

The powder was also good mixed with sour cream + a little garlic powder and some jalapeno powder + some dill with a bit of fresh parmesan. That was pretty yummy too. We used that as a veggie dip.

YMMV.

I planted san marzano II’s this year instead of juliets. I wasn’t disappointed in them but they drowned so I’m glad I didn’t waste juliet seeds. We had over 10” of rain in July and the garden spot I had the tomatoes in this year doesn’t drain all that great. It’s usually NOT a problem after the end of April as we usually have dry summers. Not this year though. *sigh*.