Ripe tomatoes can pile up quickly, yet many home cooks keep using them in the same familiar ways. These 15 ideas give anyone with extra tomatoes more useful options to choose from, whether you are cooking for yourself, feeding others, or bringing something to share. Each one of these recipes takes the season’s best tomatoes beyond the usual routine, so none of that fresh flavor has to go to waste.

A fresh White Bean Salad on a white plate featuring arugula, white beans, cherry tomatoes, sliced red onions, avocado, and cheese, placed on a wooden surface with two forks beside it.
Easy White Bean Salad. Photo credit: The Bite Stuff.

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