Red Gold Tomatoes Blogger Contest for the Taste of the NFL

To celebrate that the Super Bowl will be in nearby Indianapolis in 2012,  Red Gold Tomatoes in Indiana  will choose seven bloggers from around the country for an all-expenses paid trip to join them at Taste of the NFL in Indy as well as at their HQ to learn all about growing and cooking exceptional tomatoes during a weekend of great cuisine. In our neck of the woods, NYC, they also sell under the name Red Pack.

They asked me to write about how I use canned tomatoes for this contest. While I’m not the biggest fan of football, I do use canned tomatoes — I usually keep a few cans of diced or crushed Red Pack Tomatoes on hand as a pantry staple. Plus, my picky eater will eat actually eat them (and my daughter loves anything tomato).

1. I add it to my Go-to Turkey Chili recipe to add some chunkiness to the sauce.

2. I use diced tomatoes to top my healthy nachos, with black beans, blue corn chips and reduced fat cheddar cheese. They taste amazing and I love that the tomatoes “kick it up a notch”, as Emeril would say.
3. I add it to my spaghetti and meatballs recipe. I don’t have time to make meatballs anymore, so I buy Trader Joe’s Turkey Meatballs and I find that the crushed whole tomatoes make the jarred tomato sauce I use tastier.

4. I add it to egg white scrambles in the morning with some spinach.