Tomato Art And Craft

[Tonja Witcraft]

Imay have mentioned this already, but our kids LOVE tomatoes. We serve sliced tomatoes with almost every meal and it's the one vegetable (or technically, fruit) that I can count on them wanting on their sandwich. So, they were pretty excited about this paper plate tomato craft.

We used sponges instead of paint brushes, and the kids seemed to enjoy dabbing the plates with their paint-soaked sponges. They also decided to add faces to their tomatoes, which was pretty cute. Though, I would recommend doing this after the paint has dried.

Food crafts like this tomato craft create great opportunities to talk with kids about food and nutrition. One common misconception held by many people is that tomatoes are vegetables. Because tomatoes have seeds and grow from a flowering plant, botanically they are considered to be fruits. Yet, nutritionally and legally tomatoes are considered to be veggies.

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Stir in the tomato paste. Continue to cook the mixture over low heat for an additional three to five minutes or until the paste turns rusty in color. Cooking the tomato paste in oil helps to unlock its robust flavor and it adds depth of flavor to the tomato sauce.

Next, add the can of San Marzano tomatoes to the saucepot, reduce the heat and simmer the sauce for fifteen to twenty minutes. Stir the mixture occasionally to keep it from sticking to the bottom of the pot.

The whole tomatoes in the sauce will begin to soften up as they cook. Use a whisk and press down on the tomatoes to break them up into small pieces. I like this method because it allows you to control the chunkiness of your sauce.

Paper punches will work well on this thin metal, so whatever punches you have in your craft room, try them out. You can then further emboss the metal using a ballpoint pen on the back of the metal to draw dots, swirls or whatever takes your fancy. You can then use these embellishments on cards and scrapbook pages.

If you have an embossing machine like the Cuttlebug or Big Shot, you can run the metal through an embossing folder. This gives a great effect. It is best to cut it to the size you are needing first with strong scissors.

Once your design is embossed it can also be sanded to distress the piece and smooth the edges. There seems to be a coating on the metal which gives it its gold colour, when you sand it the underneath tin colour comes through. Very effective.

I am a Christian homeschooling mother of 3 sweet little puddle jumpers and wife to the most sexiest man I know. I love to cook, serve my family, sew, bake, craft with my kids, and enjoy living a natural life. I am blessed to to have all that I have and would love to share some of what I do with you.

STEP 1: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Finely dice the onion and mince the garlic. Saut onions in a skillet with olive oil until softened (roughy 5 minutes) then add the garlic until fragrant (about 1-2 minutes).

STEP 2: While the onion and garlic are sauteing, thinly slice the rest of the vegetables. Slice them into the same shape. I used a mandolin but you could also use a food processor or by hand as well(just try to get them to be as close to the same thickness as possible)

STEP 3: Spray the inside of an 88 square or round baking dish with non-stick spray. Spread the softened onion and garlic in the bottom of the dish. Place the thinly sliced vegetables in the baking dish vertically, in an alternating pattern. Sprinkle generously with salt, pepper,thyme, and rosemary.

I made this last night and it was perfectly wonderful. Maybe the sogginess comes from cutting the tomato too thick. I cut all my veggies at about 1/8 inch disks. I also tend to go a little heavy on garlic, but it was perfect! My cheeses were old, so I just sprinkled with some grated parm.

Hi Pamela! So happy this was a big hit for you! Good for you for making a conscious effort to eat healthier. It is hard sometimes! Feel free to take a look at some of the other recipes on here, I try to post healthy(ish) recipes frequently! ? Thanks for checking out my blog!

This is so delicious! I did not have tomatoes, Rosemary, or thyme but it was still very good! I could have eaten the whole pan! I also only used mozzarella cheese but it browned up nicely. Definitely adding this to the rotation.

Hi Tracy! Thank so much for checking out the blog and for sharing your experience with the recipe!! I love to hear from readers like you ? And WOW what a good idea. I have heard of this trick and have used it for eggplant before but never even considered for this one. Thanks for sharing!

Its nickname, "the South Dakota martini," pokes fun at our lack of class while celebrating the finer things in life: bar olives, dirty pint glasses and cheap American beer. What's been called the "official cocktail of South Dakota" is really a common Midwest occurrence. Someone ordered a cheap beer, wondered what it might taste like with a touch of tomato juice, and voila, a legend was born.

1. While camping. Our usual cuisine during a weekend of camping includes seven bags of Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips, a cow's worth of hamburgers, all of the starchy vegetables and a few hundred pancakes. Adding some tomato juice to our beer actually helps us from coming down with a case of scurvy after a few days.

2. After mowing the lawn. Light beer is the best after mowing the lawn, but it's even better if you can pretend you're drinking a nutritious bowl of soup. Tomato beers replenish the body, replace the salt and are generally (probably) better for you than Gatorade.

2. With anything other than light beer. A friend of mine told me about how someone ordered a Fat Tire with a pickle. He put the pickle on the side, unable to actually make that horrible combination himself. The same can be said with tomato juice and IPA, stout, pale ale, brown ale or delicious German lagers. And pity the person who orders tomato juice with a shandy.

I started crafting with my mom when I was a young girl. We were constantly creating new things and always had a million ideas for what we wanted to make next. Sometimes we even sold those things at craft fairs, but most of the time we loved to make things for our home or to give as gifts to loved ones. There is nothing quite so special as a gift that someone has taken the time to personally make for you.

My love for making things and sharing them has followed me throughout my life. However, once I got a Cricut machine, I started to realize the true potential it gave me to make exactly what I wanted. I started creating faster and smarter and sharing those things with others.

As I mentioned above I have many hobbies, all centered around making things. Along with my love of crafting, I am an accomplished cook and an aspiring Southern California gardener. While I have chosen to make San Diego my home, I grew up in Indiana and like to think of myself as an original Cabbage Patch Kid. My dad did (and still does) have an enormous garden filled with what seemed like a gazillion vegetables and fruits when I was a kid.

I fondly remember running out to the garden on warm summer days and eating sun-warmed ripe tomatoes right off the vine. I also have comforting memories of my mother gathering the first of the tomatoes while they were still green to make fried green tomatoes. Even today, the taste of tomatoes bring me back to the safety of my childhood and all the time I spent exploring my creativity.

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I agree, I think the embroidered seeds are safer; although, for older children where there is no risk of choking, the beads would be lovely. I know a lot of 4-7 year olds who would LOVE to make felt sandwiches, etc.

I love your tomato and let me say how hard it really is to look at something and translate it into colors and it be recognizable. Here are my felt tomato slices that I made as part of a pattern set. By themselves, people have no idea what it is! lol, but with the sandwich, they figure it out really quick!

I use sharp scissors. If you want them to be exactly the same, make a paper pattern and use a little bit of glue-stick to hold the pattern down to the felt. That will keep the pattern and felt lined up. Then you can cut the pattern out. Depending on the shape you want, you might also be able to use a die-cutter like sizzix to punch the shapes out.

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Some of my favorite toppings to put on avocado toast will create a contract in texture-something crunchy is always in order, like the watermelon radish here! You can also top it with crisp carrots, apple, or shaved Brussels sprouts. Try adding something rich like squash or tomato. Finally, I like to add a sauce for flavor, like the chimichurri here, or perhaps some pico de gallo, sriracha or balsamic!

4. Once Lye solution and Oil solutions are both 100 F, blend the lye solution into the oil solution. 5. Stire until it begins to trace and then add Basil EO, sun dried tomatoes and basil leaves. Stir thoroughly and pour into mold. 6. Set 12-18 hrs before cutting and cure 2-4 weeks

Tomato cage ghost crafting is easy and cute. The decorating urge has overtaken me this Halloween season along with the fun and creativity it gives you when it is completed. I am not a scary decorator, because they have always frightened me, but I love the cutesy whimsical themes.

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