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Goomba38 wrote:
> wrote:
>
>> A number of groceries/vegetable markets here in Chicago are selling
>> "sun dried tomatoes" that, from their packaging, seem to be locally
>> grown (or at least locally packaged). To my mind they demonstrate that
>> if you sun dry a flavorless tomato to get a sun dried flavorless
>> tomato.
>
>
> I only like the sun dried tomatoes that are packed in oil. Otherwise
> I've not had any great taste from the Melissa's brand of plain dried.
> Goomba

I grow a variety called "Principe Borghese" for drying. I'm just about
finished using up the ones I dried 2 years ago, so I need to grow them
again this year. I dry them quite dry but not brittle, and store them
in a glass jar -- without oil.

Bob