Don't Waste Cheap Tomatoes: 5 Summer Recipes

When tomatoes get market-cheap, this is the plan that uses the whole bucket. The oven leads: cherry tomatoes roast into a jammy pasta sauce alongside a garlic head that squeezes out as sweet paste; nine big tomatoes and two chilies come out of the same oven as a smoky, strained-silky drinking juice — a Bloody Mary mix by another name. Rice paper gets an egg wash and bakes into a crisp galette under a rainbow of red, yellow and green tomato rounds on cottage cheese. The TikTok-famous skillet returns for the season — steamed, peeled and mashed tomatoes under mozzarella with five poached-in-place eggs. And the last tomatoes on the counter end as crunchy tomato garlic toast, halfway between French toast and garlic bread. Five completely different meals, one humble summer ingredient.