Anything you might use canned tomatoes for: gumbos, paellas, Manhattan style clam chowder, & I make a sort of "stew"(more like a pilaf) w/ browned chicken pieces, onions, veggies & rice & use canned tomatoes in it as part of the liquids. Since stewed presumably means seasoned, you can adjust the dish's seasonings accordingly.

HTH

I use stewed tomatoes in chili and also with pasta, heavy cream, and additional herbs and spices. Makes a nice side dish.

Spaghetti sauce, chili, stew, Spanish rice, green beans, soups ... my husband loves tomatoes!

I put a cut up cabbage & other veggies - carrots, celery, onion etc - and a jar of stewed tomatoes in the crock pot & sometimes add cooked chicken or ground turkey when it is done cooking. Yum!

My friend sometimes adds stewed tomatoes to canned corn... usually as a side-dish to Mexican foods, or something more plain like a roasted chicken. Good luck with your back!

ETA: I think he also adds bell pepper to the corn mix!

My mother used to make "Scalloped tomatoes"...it was stewed tomatoes with some sliced celery, some very thin slices of onion and salt and pepper to taste....simmered until the added veggies are soft, then put into a baking dish and topped with buttered triangles of bread and baked until bubbly, the bread soft on the bottom and browned on the top. haven't thought of that in years......love it! True comfort food.

My Dad used to make a similar dish to the scalloped to Lindac's mom. He also put saltines in there and cheese on top -I loved it .

I have also made fish with canned tomatoes. Sauté onions and peppers , add canned tomatoes and lay fish on top.

As a child we had stewed tomatoes and okra, it was good. Another thing we had but not sure I would like it now was stewed tomatoes and macaroni. That was a real "poor folks dish."

rita, we ate macaroni and tomatoes too, it was definitely a poor person's supper. Now Elery loves the stuff, go figure. I used to eat it with sugar sprinkled on top, like breakfast cereal.

My favorite way to use canned/stewed tomatoes, though, is tomato dumplings. I love them, and I haven't made any yet this year in spite of the bushels of tomatoes in the garden.

Peppi, I hope your back is better soon. All that canning is hard on the back. I don't suppose you have freezer room? Stick them all in there, peels and all, and then deal with them when you feel better. (hugs)

Annie

A favorite in our house is a medley of zucchini, yellow squash, & patty pan squash, all 'chunked' into even sized pieces, along with some onion, & bacon. Fry diced bacon until crispy, remove from pan, & set aside. Add squash & onion to bacon fat, cook until almost tender. Add stewed tomatoes, simmer until hot throughout & squash is tender. Stir in the crispy bacon, serve immediately. Season according to your taste.

Any summer squash works well in this. Use just one kind, or a mixture of what you have. The above mentioned combination makes an attractive and colorful side dish.

Rusty

What is a tomato dumpling? Room in the freezer? You're joking, right? The famine could come and we would be fine for months and months......I am trying to figure out how to get the chopped chard in there right now.

The squash and toms are already in the freezer, mac and stewed sound good as does LindaC's casserole. And the chicken and rice is going on the menu soon too.

Thanks everyone, I knew you would come threw for me.

I like to slice zucchini and saute till golden, then add stewed tomatoes till heated through. Then add a melting cheese on top, just till partially melted and serve. I also use them for swiss steak. For a quick meal I bake chicken breasts with the tomatoes and then top with shredded mozzarella. I use in goulash, chili, and also added to a pot of cooked elbow or shell macaroni with just a teaspoon of sugar. But my favorite is 5 hour oven stew, made with chuck roast when it's really cold outside, and served with a good loaf of crusty bread (my recipe uses stewed tomatoes).

One of the favorite side dishes when I was a kid--Mac and tomatoes. Mom fried some bacon w/ diced onions--bell peppers, too, if you like. Combine with cooked macaroni and bake.

She also made what she called 'Breaded Tomatoes'...like the scalloped tomatoes mentioned above. I'm not a picky eater but I could never eat that dish. It was the slimey bread that put me off it.

Rusty, that meddling sounds good! (bacon ;^)

Simmer zucchini in stewed tomatoes, top with cheese.

Huevos Rancheros or Tomato & Eggs on Toast.

Another: http://whiteonricecouple.com/recipes/poached-eggs-tomato-sauce-toast/

Feel better!

Swiss steak is another recipe that would use stewed tomatoes.

Here you, go, Peppi. I hope you feel better soon, just so you can make these!

Tomato Dumplings

• /2 cup finely chopped onion
• 1/4 cup finely chopped green pepper
• 1/4 cup finely chopped celery
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 quart diced tomatoes, undrained
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• DUMPLINGS
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon cold butter
• 1 tablespoon snipped fresh parsley
• 2/3 cup milk

Directions

• In a large skillet over medium-high heat, saute onion, green pepper and celery in butter until tender. Add bay leaf, tomatoes, brown sugar, basil, salt and pepper; cover and simmer for 5-10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, for dumplings, combine flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Cut in butter. Add parsley and milk; stir just until mixed.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls onto the simmering tomato mixture, creating six mounds; cover tightly and simmer for 12-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into one of the dumplings comes out clean. Discard bay leaf. Serve immediately. Yield: 6 servings.
• Annie

The tomato dumplings sound good. We had it growing up but our recipe seemed much different. Ours was not sweet and it had slices of potatoes in it and nice flat dumplings. I wish I had that recipe. We also ate our macaroni and tomatoes and it was on the sweet side. Much similar to just cooking some macaroni in stewed tomatoes, adding some sugar and butter, maybe some pepper.

Sue