Cherry tomatoes

Cherry tomatoes are small round tomatoes about the size of a cherry. These are available in the grocery store almost year-round now. They add nice color and flavor to salads or other cold dishes. They can be cooked as well and look nice used in a frittata or casserole. These are fun and easy to grow in the summer. A prolific variety is Sweet 100. They grow tall plants that work well on a trellis and bare hundreds of bright red tasty tomatoes.

Substitute For Cherry Tomatoes

If you don't have cherry tomatoes you can substitute any of the following options:

• Use standard salad tomatoes, see the equivalents below.
• Grape tomatoes are a little larger but would work equally as well.
• Plum style tomatoes can be used to replace cherry tomatoes but they tend to be dryer.
• If you're using the tomatoes in a casserole or other baked dish you could substitute sun-dried tomatoes which have a more intense flavor.
• Alternately (for cooking only) you can substitute canned tomatoes, cut up, for cherry tomatoes.

1 lb salad tomatoes = 3 cups cherry tomatoes
1 lb cherry tomatoes = 1 pint, 25 to 35 tomatoes
1 medium whole salad tomato (2-3/5" dia) = 3/4 cup cherry tomatoes