05 June 2012

Make my green eyes blue...

Oh....I've had a hard time living with green shutters but it wasn't the top priority when I moved in. Yeah for blue paint! Finally. Thanks Charlie!  It looks much better today. Blue shutters are a much better look for me.

Things are coming together gradually. I made a tomato pie and invited everyone's favorite grandmother Rainy Rose over for dinner for a test run. Tomato pie may be one of my new favorite dishes. Absolutely scrumptious.

So many of you asked for the Tomato Pie recipe I had to try to find something close to what I made. The problem these days is that when I cook, I google mutliple recipes and mix and match according to what I have on hand and what suits me. This Tomato Pie with corn sounded great but I didn't want an upper crust and I'd eaten the last of my silver queen corn the night before. I will make the version with corn some day. Other than that it is very close to what I made. I combined ingredients from this one and Paula Dean's version.

Tomato Pie

1   9-inch deep dish frozen pie shell
3/4 cup grated mozzarella 
3/4 cup grated cheddar
1/2 cup chopped green onion
10   fresh basil leaves, chopped
3 - 4  large tomatoes, peeled and sliced in 1/4' slices
1/2 cup Hellman's mayonnaise
salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. First, blanch the tomatoes to peel and slice. Place the tomatoes in a colander or lay out to drain. Sprinkle a layer of cheese in the bottom of the pie shell, then a layer of tomato slices, salt & pepper, basil, onion and spread mayonnaise and repeat until tomatoes are used. Spread the mayonnaise and cheese mixture on top of the tomatoes and bake for 40 minutes or until lightly browned. I think I had three layers of tomatoes. 


To serve, cut into slices and serve warm. Prepare to be adored.



14 comments:

Donna Gill Colestock said...

Love the blue and LOVE that table. And the chairs!

Charlestonjoan said...

Thank you! The blue makes me happy.

I ordered four of the chairs. They have been coming one at a time about a week apart. Aaaargh.

Pixel Peeper said...

I had never heard of tomato pie until I read about it in a Dorothea Benton Frank book just yesterday.

Proofs my theory about going through your whole life without ever having heard of something, and then you hear about it twice in the same week!

Unknown said...

....and the recipe for said pie?........ please????

Lowandslow said...

Tomato pie? That's a new one on me, too. But I like tomatoes, and I like pie...so why not? :)

S

Anonymous said...

I seriously love your dining room! And we seriously love homemade tomato pie with mayo, diced onions, Parmesan cheese... DH and I can polish off a whole one in about 45 minutes.

brattcat said...

will you give us your recipe please?

Anonymous said...

Looking good! The blue, the dinningroom, the chairs......need to see and try that pie!!! Sally

Marcheline said...

Seriously, Joan? You hit us with adorable photos of you and your shutters, then tempt us with Tomato Pie, and leave us with NO RECIPE? Are you kidding? Don't make me come over there!

Charlestonjoan said...

I'll get that recipe! You know how it is these days, I Google recipes and mix and match!

Marcheline said...

NOW you're talking! 8-)

Kate said...

I'm going to make this pie tomorrow!!

Charlestonjoan said...

Let us know Kate!

Charlestonjoan said...

Get cookin'!