Tomato pudding

Made with tomatoes, bread, butter, and brown sugar, tomato pudding is inexplicably divine. Here's why the dish is always on my family's Thanksgiving table.

Call it a pudding if you like, but it’s more like a cobbler. Though neither word quite describes the sweet-and-savory tomato recipe that has long been a local specialty.

This is one of those simple, mouthwatering Southern dishes! Basically, it's tomatoes, sugar, butter, and bread, stirred together and b...

This tomato bread pudding is easily prepared from on hand items, creating a side dish casserole that will be asked for over and over again. It can also be prepared ahead of time and put in oven later.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Pour the canned tomatoes into a medium sized mixing bowl and break them up with a large spoon, not necessarily crushing them but making sure...

Adapted from an old family recipe Serves 8-10 9 slices good-quality white bread (I like Pepperidge Farm’s original white bread ) ...

This tomato bread pudding is easily prepared from on hand items, creating a side dish casserole that will be asked for over and over again. It can also be prepared ahead of time and put in oven later.

Preheat oven to 375F. Use a 1 1/2 qt. casserole dish sprayed with non stick spray. In a sauce pan combine the tomato paste (puree), sugar, water and salt. Cook together 5...

I love homegrown tomatoes, and while they are in season, this is a yummy side dish. Courtesy of Rachel Ray. Update to recipe: After cooking for minutes, I gently mixed, then cooked for 10-15 minutes longer. Then topped with parmesan and put under broiler to melt cheese and toast. Also recommend lightly toasting the baguette prior to cutting into cubes, then rub with fresh garlic before mixing with tomatoes.

Tomato Pudding? Yes, you heard right. Heather MacDonald says TP — as her family calls it — is sweet and tangy "straight-up, old-school Midwestern holiday fare." Nutritional benefits are minimal at best, she says, but who cares? You eat it only twice a year. Here, her family's TP recipe.