Tomatoes Full of Love..eerr Goodness.

o, it has been a while...3 months to be exact. Things have been a bit hectic lately so I apologize.

On to the latest and greatest creation!

We had some massive tomatoes left over after a part we had thrown and I figured it would be a huge waste to just cut them up and put them in a salad or slice them for burgers. Being a fan of stuffed peppers, I decided to stuff them.

Here's what you'll need.

Food Processor

Spatula

Sheet Pan

Parchment Paper

Aluminum Foil
Oven @ 400 degrees

Seal able plastic storage bag

Scissors

grapefruit spoon

sharp paring knife

3 Large Tomatoes

Sausage meat (sweet or spicy your pick)

Red Pepper

Green Pepper

Celery

Breadcrumbs

olive oil

Black Pepper

Flat leaf parsley

First, fire up the food processor with the sausage meat. Then add the peppers and celery till they have been chopped to bits! You may need to cut the celery down so the blades can catch them and do their thing. Next add 1/4 cup of salt free bread crumbs, then continue processing until everything is combined. Add the olive oil and black pepper here, and pulse the machine now 3 times to combine.

This is crucial.

You must now carve out the tops and the insides of the tomatoes. Think Halloween pumpkin carving here. Once you get a sizable hole cut in the top, you need to be gentle, while still being firm with the tomato. Grab the grapefruit spoon and start digging away. You want to get all of the seeds and the gooey stuff that they are attached to. If you don't, when you bake this stuff it will make the walls of the tomato soft and it will fall apart.

Take HALF of the guts of the tomato, and put it in the food processor; pulse it a few times and your done with the stuffing.

Load it into the seal able bag, get the air out and push everything to one of the corners. Then, cut one of those corners and you have an instant piping bag :)

Use the bag and the stuffing like a pastery chef (come on, you have seen them on TV), and fill each of the now hollow tomatoes. You may want to overfill them a bit, and top them with some bread crumbs, black pepper, and parsley.

Toss them on the sheet pan lined with parchment. See the picture below, I used the aluminum foil to make little ring stands so they don't burn on the sheet pan; then put them in the 400 degree oven.

They will go for 40 minutes, or until the stuffing hits ~160-165 degrees in the center (use a digital instant read thermomiter please)

When your done, it should look like this.

Enjoy!