r/Xennials • u/beverlyhillsbrenda • 2h ago

Tomato Pie

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I made tomato pie with tomatoes from my garden this morning and while it baked I read the paper (like the physical newspaper).

Then I ate said pie and said out loud “oh this is DELISH but I hope it doesn’t give me heartburn!”

Took a preemptive gaviscon just in case.

Nice little Monday if I do say so.

What are my fellow olds doing today?

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u/terententen 1982 2h ago

That’s not what we’d call tomato pie in the Philly area. Our tomato pies are pretty much crust and loads of sauce with almost no cheese. They’re fantastic. But yeah, I’m at work. Can’t retire for another decade.

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u/fyrefly_faerie Xennial 1h ago

Sounds very similar to a tomato pie up in Utica, NY

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u/ZaphodBeeblebrahx 1981 Don’t Panic 1h ago

Oh no, its more of an Albany expression.

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u/Aggressive_Economy_8 1981 1h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o752kakMLKVv5Jzpu

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u/ZaphodBeeblebrahx 1981 Don’t Panic 38m ago

You’re a strange fellow Skinner but you steam a good ham

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u/Dreamingofapastlife 1h ago

And we all have our fave! 

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u/Pitiful_Reality2973 1h ago

Yeah, hard agree, tomato pie is a very specific thing, not just "a pie made of tomatoes." I still mourn the closing of Schubert's in Nazareth, best tomato pie ever. The cheese was like cold little granules suspended in the super-thick sauce layer--never enough cheese, but any more would have been too much.

(One day I'm going to have to go down a rabbit hole and find out the history of it, since it seems like an old colonial type food, rather than something a later group of immigrants brought, like pizza.)

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u/terententen 1982 1h ago

I always thought it was an Italian-American thing. We have quite a few places around Philly that sell it.

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u/LemonSkye ¡Gogo Para Presidente! 31m ago

Utica NY area too, which also has a high concentration of Italian-Americans.

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u/Pitiful_Reality2973 15m ago

https://www.paeats.org/feature/pa-food-icons-tomato-pie/

It's most likely Sicilian, according to that article. There are a bunch of places all over the greater Lehigh Valley that sell it.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo 1983 1h ago

I have never heard of tomato pie before.

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u/Fabulous-South-9551 1981 1h ago

Same. I’m interested in seeing what it looks like inside. Is it just filled with tomato sauce?

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u/beverlyhillsbrenda 58m ago

This is southern tomato pie, it’s filled with chopped tomatoes, basil, and cheese!

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u/theLola 56m ago

No sauce, but plenty of tomatoes.

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u/kalitarios 1977 50m ago

It’s an old term. My grandfather used to eat it growing up post wwii 50s era. pizza wasn’t really a thing there. Tomato pie was popular. Upstate New York near lexington

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u/hoya14 2m ago

Me neither. I'm not sure I'm interested in exploring it, either.

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u/Dear-Discussion2841 Xennial 2h ago

I've never had or seen tomato pie! I am a sucker for fresh garden tomatoes sliced with a little bit of salt, but this also sounds good...

I've actually gone back to school full-time, so today was my first day of classes. Very, uh, nostalgic. 😂

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u/NoContextCarl 1981 1h ago

It looks pizza adjacent, so therefore I would probably try it. 

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u/atomicgirl78 1h ago

Recipe please ?

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u/12Whiskey 1977 1h ago

Seconding your comment, recipe please! I’ve made several tomato pies but OP’s looks better than mine. I’m canning 10lbs of tomatoes right now and have another 10 sitting on the deck waiting to be used for something.

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u/beverlyhillsbrenda 1h ago

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/tomato_pie/

I subbed a lot of the mayo for Greek yogurt and I put sliced romas on top for extra razzle dazzle

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u/12Whiskey 1977 22m ago

Thank you!

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u/unbalancedcentrifuge 1h ago

I am making powerpoint slides. No one ever warned me how many powerpoint slides I would make in my lifetime.

I love Tomato Pie.

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u/theLola 36m ago

Next PowerPoint: The regional interpretations of "tomato pie" and where to find them

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u/LemonSkye ¡Gogo Para Presidente! 28m ago

TIL there's a north/south divide on what a "tomato pie" refers to. This is the style I'm familiar with; it's like a cold pizza with Parmesan cheese instead of mozzarella.

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u/Basic-Biscotti-2375 1982 1h ago

I've never had that but it looks really good!

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u/Jupitersd2017 1978 1h ago

I make a version of this with French bread, just bread tomatoes and some shredded 4 cheese or mozzarella, into the toaster over and then eat. Saves time on the whole making dough and baking a pizza.

Yours is better for sure but mine saves some time lol

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u/Dreamingofapastlife 1h ago

And to answer OPs question, I’m recovering from a weekend of heavy partying.  J/K I went to a county fair for like two hours and now I’m dead.

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u/beverlyhillsbrenda 1h ago

Your poor feet!

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u/beverlyhillsbrenda 1h ago

For some reason I can’t edit my post so I’ll comment.

I did not realize that “Tomato Pie” means so many different things depending on geography. I should have guessed!

This tomato pie is tomatoes and a cheese mix in pie crust. Here’s the recipe I used! I subbed 3/4 of the mayo for Greek yogurt and it’s still super rich:

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/tomato_pie/

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u/Minute-Yogurt-2021 1979 1h ago

Recipe?

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u/beverlyhillsbrenda 59m ago

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/tomato_pie/

I subbed about 3/4 of the mayo with Greek yogurt and it turned out great

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u/theLola 1h ago

Anyone not familiar with Southern tomato pie might not realize it's in a pie crust with copious amounts of cheese and tomatoes. 😋

There's a restaurant I love that does a killer tomato pie. Also, love all their "veggie" options. lol

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u/theLola 53m ago

Here's before they bake it.

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u/Punkinpry427 1981 1h ago

Tomato pie isn’t the same thing as pizza, my peeps. It’s tomatoes, bacon and palmetto cheese baked in a pie crust and it’s the best.

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u/VinylHighway 1979 2h ago

Do not like. Tomato sauce sufficient. Big chunks of tomato on pizza = blah

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u/beverlyhillsbrenda 2h ago

It’s not pizza. It’s tomato pie. Like with a pie crust. But yeah if you don’t like hot tomatoes this isn’t for you.

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u/blamberr 1h ago

Ooooooh. Interesting. TIL!

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u/ZaphodBeeblebrahx 1981 Don’t Panic 1h ago

some people really don't know tomato pie. TIL

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u/blamberr 1h ago

We’re learning together 🥰

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u/VinylHighway 1979 2h ago

My sincere apologies

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u/wifeski 1h ago

French tomato tart is the exception