Green tomatoes are good in everything…right?
My potted vegetable garden
I love green tomatoes. I’ve picked them early to fry them when I couldn’t wait for the first frost warning. I’ve mooched them from neighbors on years I didn’t grow any. Last year I planted two tomato plants in a pot, this year I tripled that because last year I had no green tomatoes at the end of the season.
I harvested all the green tomatoes left on my vines before we had frost this past week. Now I have a basket full of them. We’ve had them fried, made into chutney, green tomato salsa, and diced and sautéed with the onions in a chicken liver curry. Remember, DH is on a soft diet. (Nevertheless, the curry was very good!) Now I am dredging up all the green tomato recipes in my files.
I think tomorrow, I’ll make green tomato pie but that only takes three and half cups. Maybe more chutney is in order to use up what I’ll have left. I could dice some into the chili I plan to make on Friday. I bet that would be good. Hmm, there’s that recipe I saw for green tomato bread—that’s it, next year I’m planting more tomatoes.
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You can do all that with green tomatoes? Dang…..I’ve had them fried, but bread too? I will keep that in mind for next year. If you make the bread let us know. That sounds very interesting.
wow that is impressive. My dad and I harvest his garden and make gallons of homemade salsa every year. We also like to buy around 50 lbs of onions to chop up and dehydrate so we have them all winter. I cannot eat the tomatoes but you are making me hungry lol.
Harking back to Aunt Edith, the woman born with ten green thumbs instead of fingers. I recall her making a wonderful spicy green tomatoe jam. I doubt she had a recipie cause it tasted different from batch to batch. Towards the end of winter it would become the star attraction in her famous “Turnip Cake”, a loaf pan concoction that looked a lot like banana bread, but was called Turnip cake cause the sweetener for the cake came from jars of whatever “turned up” in the pantry from the season before.
DH and I loved the green tomato pie. I took some over to G and she loved it too. However, her very, fussy hubby didn’t care for it, but then there’s not much he likes. Some days he drives G crazy because his list of foods he’ll eat is very short.
Enjoy your blog. Try just wraping up the green tomatoes in newspaper putting in a very cool spot in your house. Turn every two weeks then at thanksgiving hopefully you will have ripe tomatoes. good luck
Thank you!
Yes, it’s true I could do that if I wanted to, but I love green tomatoes. We had a huge number of lovely ripe, tomatoes during the season so I’m satisfied with that. We had a wonderful time munching BLTs, stuffed tomatoes, and fresh salsa.
The basket of green tomatoes is down to maybe two more meals with them fried after the 3 and 1/2 cups of sliced that I used for the pie. DH and I love them and getting him to eat veggies is often a struggle so you take what you have–he’ll eat them!