Desperation Dinners: ; Uses Abound for Slow-Roasted Tomatoes; Italian Cooking Is Filled with Many Different Ways to Use Tomatoes

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Never in this hectic lifetime would we have thought to put canned tomatoes in the oven, cook them at 300 F for 2-1/2 hours and expect to get anything worthwhile out of the bargain. But that's why we like having friends like Jeff Strickland.

By day Jeff is a computer analyst in Charlotte, N.C., but most evenings you'll find him experimenting in the kitchen. He raved so about Slow-Roasted Tomatoes that we couldn't resist giving them a try. In last week's column we served them with penne, but that's just the beginning.

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Desperation Dinners: ; Uses Abound for Slow-Roasted Tomatoes; Italian Cooking Is Filled with Many Different Ways to Use Tomatoes

"The nice thing about these tomatoes is that they're so versatile," Jeff said. "What you're after is the rich tomato flavor that's so essential to Italian cooking, but you're ge...

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