Tomato Dishes

Tomato Party/Festival
Tomato Soup
Tomato Cornbread
Music Cake

Food for Thought: There are fruit …vegetables and grain for man(kind) …wine…olive oil… and bread to give him strength. Psalm 104: 14 LB

Tip: Create your own Tomato Party/Festival and invite the neighbors over. Use red tablecloth and napkins. Use salt and pepper shakers in shape of tomatoes. Find pictures on Internet of tomatoes and Andy Whorl’s soup cans, copy and decorate the table. Paint some original art of your own or let the children color tomato pictures during the party. Ice breaker: Ask people to tell uses for tomatoes like for removing skunk smells etc.

Recipes:

Tomato Soup

1-12 oz can evaporated can milk
¼ c. cornstarch
4 cups tomato juice
¼ t. salt
¼ t. white pepper
¼ c. chopped parsley or flakes

Whisk cornstarch into milk. Add milk and juice in a heavy saucepan. Add salt and pepper. Cook over medium heat and thicken to desired consistency. Stir well. When removed from heat, add parsley. Serve warm or cold with tomato cornbread muffins.

Tomato Bread

2 cups self-rising flour
2 cups self-rising cornmeal
½ cup corn oil
2 cups chopped and cooked tomatoes with juice
3 eggs
¼ cup molasses
¼ cup shredded cheddar cheese

Mix cornmeal, flour, corn oil, eggs and tomatoes in a food processor or blender. Mix well. Pour into oil sprayed muffin cups and top with cheese. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Yield: 24 muffins.

Music Cake

Make red velvet cake. Top with white frosting. Design a musical note on top and outline with chocolate frosting. May use a tomato design and outline with red frosting with green leaves and a brown stem.

From the Nutritionist: Since this is the end of the season for tomatoes. They are very economical at farmers markets. This is a good time to have a party and use tomatoes as the theme for your dishes. The tomatoes in the dishes are high in vitamins C and A. Bread and cake are high in carbohydrates. A diabetic may enjoy the soup.Vegetarians will love this meal! Have a happy fall festival with tomatoes at the end of the season!

Smiley Face Meal: Happiness is Cookin'

Smiley Face/Mask Meal Menu:
Pork Roast
Apple Barbecue Sauce
Fresh Fruit Salad
Baked Okra Slices
Condiments
Buns
Tea

Food for Thought: Blessed are they that hunger after righteousness. For they shall be filled.
Matthew 6:13 KJV

Tip: Decorate with smiley faces and yellow/orange table ware with yellow and orange flowers
and table covering with matching napkins. Guests make dress in costumes with masks. may decorate with masks and discuss the significance of masks or have an inspirational talk on people wearing masks in life.

Recipes

Pork roast

Place a 4 lb. pork roast in a slow cooker. Cover with a can of coke and cook for 4 hours. Check for doneness. Pork needs to be cooked done. When done cool and shred. Cover with barbecue sauce and serve on buns.

Apple Barbecue Sauce

1 cup ketchup
1 cup barbecue sauce
1 cup pureed apple sauce
1 T. Worcestershire sauce
1 c. brown sugar
1/4 t. mustard

Use a food processor or blender and mix well. Place in a slow cooker for 1 hour. Serve over shredded meat.

Baked Okra Rounds

4 cups breaded okra rounds or slices
1/4 cup corn oil

Place okra on a cookie sheet and toss with the corn oil. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until to desired brownness. Serve warm.

Fresh Fruit Salad

Use 4 cups of mixed fruit that is in season. Toss with 1 container of yogurt and 1/4 t. honey. Serve with barbecue sandwich.

Sunny Mask Cake

1 yellow cake mix
1 can frosting
1 package of candy

Mix cake according to directions on package or make your favorite from scratch. Add 5 drops of yellow or orange cake color. Place in a round pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes.
Cool and decorate. Mix 5 drops of orange or yellow cake coloring into frosting and mix well in a food processor. Spread on cake. Use a knife or toothpick and make a face. decorate with the candies and edge with left-overs. Use any left over batter for cup cakes and decorate with faces.

From the Nutritionist: Meals should have the basic nutrients to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

• Protein builds strong bones and teeth. Protein is found in the pork roast. Vitamins are requirement to prevent many illnesses and to maintain good mental health. The vegetables and fruits and things like lettuce, tomatoes and okra as well as applesauce are high in vitamins A and C. This meal is suitable for diabetics. Diabetics should avoid bread with sugar and consider the carbohydrates. Fiber is found in the green vegetables and fruits. Store left over foods in airtight containers. Take left over desserts to shut-ins packaged in airtight containers, gift sacks or food baskets. Remember that cooking places a smiley face on the preparer as well as the eaters. Happiness is cooking and eating!!!!! Have a fun filled day!
  

Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkin Bread Recipe

1 box yellow or white cake mix
3 whole eggs
¼ cup oil
1 cup pureed pumpkin (fresh or canned)
¼ c. chopped pecans
1 T. flour

Wisk eggs until yolks are mixed with whites; add oil and pumpkin and mix. Beat batter two minutes. Toss the nuts in the flour and hand fold into batter. Pour into a flour-sprayed loaf pan. Top with cinnamon mixture and bake 45 minutes @ 350º. Test for doneness-may need to cook longer depending upon the oven.

Cinnamon Topping:

¼ c. flour
½ c. brown sugar
1 t. cinnamon
¼ c. chopped pecans

Mix flour, sugar and cinnamon together and sprinkle over top of batter. Sprinkle nuts over top and bake.

Spooktacular Menu

Poppin’ Good Corn Balls
Devilish Meat Balls and sausages
Dunkin’ bread in cheese fondue
Relishin’ the Veggie and fruit Tray
Fallish Jack Frosted Rice Cereal Squares
Brew Delight

Tip: Decorate with seasonal fall items like cornstalks, pumpkins, gourds, hay bales and flowers. Children may collect colorful leaves and make a row down the center of the table. May use cutout pumpkins and place orange or pumpkin scented candles on top.
For an activity with children, clean and cut a pumpkin into a face. Place a candle inside and explain that this is way people are when they become Christians.

Food for Thought:

Jesus said: Let your light shine. Matthew 5:16

Family Meal Planning

From the Nutritionist: Carbohydrates are in the bread and dessert. Calcium is in the cheese. Vitamins and minerals are in the raw, cut up vegetables, fruits and pickles. Protein is found in the meat.

Recipes:

Poppin’ Good Corn Balls

5 qt. Popped corn
4 c. sugar
2 t. salt
1 c. water
2 T. margarine
¼ t. cream of Tartar
1 T. corn syrup

Pop corn. Cook sugar, salt, water, margarine, corn syrup and tartar to firm ball stage on candy thermometer. Pour syrup over corn and shape into 3-inch balls or leave in stirred stage. Balls may be placed in airtight containers or bags as take home treats.

Devilish Meat Balls and sausages
1 # hamburger meat
1 # cocktail sausages
½ c. breadcrumbs
¼ c. chopped onion
2/3 c. milk
1 t. salt
1 egg
1 c. Shrimp cocktail sauce or barbeque sauce
1 c. grape jelly

Make hamburger balls with meat, crumbs, onion, milk, salt and egg. Fry or bake until done. Heat sauce and jelly in a slow cooker. Pour meatballs and/or cocktail sausages into sauce and serve warm with toothpicks.


Dunkin’ bread in cheese fondue
Melt 1 lb. of favorite cheese in a slow cooker with ½ cup evaporated milk. Cut French bread or home made bread into cubes and place on wooden skewers. Dunk into cheese.
Happy Dunkin'!



Relishin’ the Veggie and fruit Tray

Clean and cut favorite vegetables and fruit into shapes like rounds or sticks. May use as dunkers into cheese, if desire. Apples, carrots, celery are always good choices.



Fallish Jack Frosted Rice Cereal Squares
¼ c. margarine
1 large package colored marshmallows
6 c. rice cereal

Melt the margarine and marshmallows in a large bowl in the microwave for 1 minute or longer. Stir well. Add cereal and mix. Press into a sprayed casserole dish and cut into 24 squares. Cool and frost.


Jack Frost Frosting

2 cups confection sugar
¼ c. melted margarine
1 T. milk
½ t. vanilla flavoring

Mix well and frost tops of squares.

To make leave decorations: trace a leave on wax paper and cut out. Use a toothpick and outline on icing. Use tubes of frosting jell and outline the leaf and fill with desired color.


Brew Delight

2 c. orange cola
2 c. lemonade
1 c. tea
½ c. sugar

Stir together and serve in cups with sugar coated rims. Pour sugar into a bowl. Moisten glass or cup rim and dip. Serves 24 punch cups.