Tomato Aspic With Blue Cheese Dressing Recipes

TOMATO ASPIC

Steps:

• Fully dissolve gelatin in boiling water in a mixing bowl.
• Combine vegetable juice, worcestershire sauce, bay leaf, and cloves in a saucepan; bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer 10 minutes. Remove and discard the bay leaf and cloves.
• Stir onion and celery into vegetable juice.
• Pour vegetable juice mixture over dissolved gelatin; stir gently to blend.
• Refrigerate until set completely, about 1 hour.

TOMATO ASPIC WITH BLUE CHEESE DRESSING

Steps:

• Sprinkle the gelatin over 1/3 cup water, and set aside to soften.
• In large saucepan, combine tomatoes, salt, pepper, cloves and bay leaf, and bring to a boil. Lower heat, and simmer for 5 minutes. Strain over a large bowl, pressing on the solids to remove as much liquid as possible. Reserve 4 cups of the liquid, and discard the solids and excess liquid. Add softened gelatin to the hot liquid, and stir to dissolve completely. Add lemon juice and red pepper sauce. Pour into a 4 1/2-cup mold, and refrigerate overnight.
• To serve the aspic, sprinkle with a little water (this helps position the aspic after unmolding), and invert the mold onto a serving plate. Dampen a kitchen towel with very hot water, and wring out. Place towel over mold, and hold tightly for 15 seconds. Repeat process. Holding mold firmly in place, jerk sharply to release aspic onto serving plate. If it does not release, repeat the hot-towel process. Garnish as desired, and serve with blue cheese dressing in separate dish.

BLUE CHEESE AND TOMATO SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk together the oil, yogurt, Worcestershire and salt and pepper, to taste. Stir in the blue cheese; and add a little water if it's too thick, until desired consistency. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.
• To serve arrange the tomatoes on serving plates and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Top with creamy dressing and enjoy!

TOMATO ASPIC FROM CLEVELAND WITH HORSERADISH SAUCE

Steps:

• TOMATO ASPIC:.
• Dissolve the gelatin in the boiling water.
• Stir in the tomatoes, breaking up large pieces with a fork.
• Add the Tabasco sauce to your own taste and mix thoroughly.
• Pour into a lightly oiled 3 quart ring mold and chill. Serve with horseradish sauce.
• HORSERADISH SAUCE.
• Combine all of the ingredients and chill for about an hour or so.

CONTESSA'S HEIRLOOM TOMATOES WITH BLUE CHEESE DRESSING

Steps:

• Core the tomatoes and cut the large ones into thick slices, halve or quarter the small ones. Arrange to look pretty on a platter and sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper.
• To make dressing:.
• Place half the Roquefort cheese, maoynnaise, cream, vinegar, 1 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoons pepper in the bowl of a food processor: process until combined but still chunky.
• Drizzle the dressing over the tomatoes. Crumble the remaining Roquefort cheese over the tomatoes. Sprinkle with the parsley and serve at room temperature. Enjoy!

CLASSIC TOMATO ASPIC

Steps:

• Sprinkle gelatine over 1 cup of the cold juice in large bowl; let stand 1 min. to soften gelatine. Add hot juice; stir 5 min. or until gelatine is completely dissolved.
• Add remaining 2 cups cold juice, the lemon juice, sugar, Worcestershire sauce and pepper sauce; mix well. Pour into 5-1/2-cup ring mold or bowl.
• Refrigerate 4 hours or until firm. Unmold onto serving plate to serve.

TOMATO ASPIC

Steps:

• 1. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water, add soup and vinegar or lemon juice. Stir until well blended. Chill until slightly thick but not set. Add celery, onion and sliced olives and stir well. 2. Pour into a 1-quart mold, ring mold or 6 individual molds. Chill until firm. Unmold on salad greens and serve with mayonnaise.

SLICED TOMATOES WITH BLUE-CHEESE DRESSING

Steps:

• Core the tomatoes, and cut into thick slices. Peel the onion, and slice.
• Combine the vinegar, oil, cheese, salt and pepper in a mixing bowl. Blend with a wire whisk (the dressing should be lumpy).
• Arrange the lettuce leaves, slices of tomatoes and onions on a cold serving plate, alternating them and slightly overlapping. Pour the dressing over all. Sprinkle with the basil, and serve.

TOMATOES AND BLUE CHEESE

Steps:

• Cut tomatoes into thick wedges and serve with your favorite homemade blue-cheese dressing, some snipped chives, and plenty of cracked pepper.

TOMATO ASPIC

Steps:

• Bring cream cheese to room temperature.
• Combine the tomato juice, lemon slices, onion slices, bay leaves, celery leaves, and cloves in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
• While the tomato juice mixture is simmering, mix together the gelatin and the apple cider vinegar.
• Strain the tomato juice mixture into a large bowl. Add the apple cider vinegar/gelatin mixture and stir well to dissolve the gelatin.
• In a small bowl, combine the room temperature cream cheese with 1 cup of the tomato juice mixture, whisking well to combine. Continue whisking until there are no more lumps of cream cheese and the mixture is smooth.
• Oil a 6 cup mold with the tablespoon of olive oil.
• Pour the cream cheese mixture into the mold. Cover and refrigerate until the cream cheese layer is set.
• Meanwhile, add the horseradish, salt, pepper, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce to the remaining tomato juice mixture, stirring well to combine.
• Once the cream cheese layer has set, pour the remaining tomato juice mixture into the mold, cover, and refrigerate overnight.
• When ready to serve, unmold the aspic onto a serving platter and sprinkle with the parsley. If you have a difficult time getting the aspic to come out of the mold, dip the bottom of the mold into hot water for a couple seconds.
• Serve with home made mayonnaise on the side.

TOMATO ASPIC

Steps:

• Core tomatoes; coarsely chop.Working in batches, transfer to a food processor or food mill. Process to a rough puree.
• Rinse two 24-inch square pieces of cheesecloth.Wring out cheesecloth; layer pieces in a large glass bowl. Pour puree into cheesecloth; gather up ends, and cinch with kitchen twine. Tie ends of cloth together to make a loop. Hang sack from a cupboard door, placing bowl directly underneath to collect juices.
• Let drain at least 1 hour; liquid will be pale. Transfer it to a large glass measuring cup, and set aside.
• Squeeze bundle over emptied bowl to extract remaining liquid; pour into another measuring cup. You should have about 4 cups dark-red tomato juice; if needed, add enough reserved pale liquid to make 4 cups. Pass juice through a fine sieve into a bowl. Discard pale liquid.
• Place 1 cup tomato juice in a small bowl. Sprinkle gelatin over liquid; let soften, about 5 minutes. Transfer mixture to a medium saucepan; stir over very low heat until gelatin dissolves. Stir in some of the juice to lower the temperature of the gelatin mixture, then add remaining juice and salt.
• Pour mixture into a 9-by-4 3/4-by-2 1/2-inch loaf pan. Cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until jelled, at least 1 hour. To unmold: Slide a knife around inside edge of pan.Wrap loaf pan in a hot towel, and invert onto a serving platter. Garnish with basil sprigs.

BLUE CHEESE CRUSTED TOMATOES

Steps:

• Prepare barbecue (high heat), leaving opposite side unlit if gas grill or without coals if charcoal grill. Mix breadcrumbs and olive oil in small bowl, mashing to coat. Cut top 1/4 from each tomato. Sprinkle tomatoes with salt and pepper. Top each with 1 tablespoon blue cheese. Sprinkle with breadcrumb mixture.
• Arrange tomatoes (topping side up) on unlit side of grill. Cover grill and cook tomatoes until slightly soft and cheese melts, about 13 minutes. Serve immediately.