Q–Can you please tell me the best way to peel and seed a tomato? I always end up using canned tomato puree because fresh tomatoes fall apart when I use an ordinary vegetable peeler. R. Antell, Chicago ...

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Tips for tomato preparation To peel a tomato, cut a shallow “X” in the blossom end, then blanch the tomato in a pot of boiling water just until the skin begins to peel away from the cut -- from five ...

It's time for the Creole Tomato Festival! In honor of our favorite tomato, learn an easy way to peel and seed tomatoes from Food editor Judy Walker. In coming weeks, Judy shows readers how to pick out ...

Washington Post Food and Travel Editor Joe Yonan shows you three handy ways to prepare and store tomatoes (hint: don't use your refrigerator).

I once subscribed to the why-in-the-world-would-you-peel-a-tomato school of thought. For me, skin-on summer tomatoes were—still are—perfect for stuffing, tossing into pastas and dicing into salsas.

(CBS News) I love cooking with tomatoes. Admittedly, I always have relied on the canned variety of unseasoned sauce and chopped tomatoes for my homemade pasta sauces, soups and chili. But, now that ...

As a follow-up to yesterday's posting on freezing tomatoes, there's an easy way to peel and seed a tomato. Knowing the easy way makes the difference between a time-consuming chore and an easy one. So ...

Follow these easy steps to peel and de-seed tomatoes for today’s jam recipe or for canning season. Using a medium bowl, prepare an ice bath. Bring a medium sauce pan of water to a boil. Using a paring ...