Our growing season is officially over. Last weekend, Guy picked our basil, hot peppers and green tomatoes, and composted the plants. In previous years, I have not had much luck ripening the tomatoes inside, so tonight we tried out two green tomato recipes. We were not impressed with the fried green tomatoes (too sour), and the feta-topped green tomatoes were a bit better (feta, white wine vinegar, and oregano do a lot to help the taste) but I don't really want to eat that many of them. Does anyone have any ideas, aside from compost? Only 1 of the 11 tomatoes we have left, shows signs of ripening.
We have a two gallons of chopped broccoli in the freezer, keeping our gallon of green beans and gallon of corn company. Guy strung up our hot peppers and basil to dry. There is only one more week for the farmer's market. We plan to stock up on apples and potatoes, we already have enough honey, soap and pumpkins to last a while. There is still a lot of food available, but I can't think of much more that I want to store or preserve, any suggestions?
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Matt Nistico made this awesome green tomato pie that had Cinnamon and sugar...it tasted like apple pie only more tart.
I've seen green tomato pie and cake recipes, but I've never tried one personally. If you don't already know about it, I like allrecipes.com for general use:
http://allrecipes.com/Search/Recipes.aspx?WithTerm=green%20tomato
they have a lot of fried tomato recipes, but also a variety of other uses; their rating system is pretty good, and the reviews often have good substitutions.
I have made green tomato and apple pie before that was really great. I have also made green tomato picles that were quite good, sort of like bread and butter. I am really looking forward to Sam being a little bit bigger so that ambition for things like that returns :)
we made green tomato pickles once. we also have a bunch of green tomoatos left from our plants.
I think the key to getting the tomatoes to ripen inside is to leave them on the plant and take the whole plant cut off down by the root line and store in a cool dark place.
There is a persimmon tree on your way to the coop. Strain out the seeds and spread the pulp out on wax paper to dry.
our green tomatoes seem to be ripening inside.
Ethylene gas is said to ripen fruit of almost all types. It is emitted by the fruit itself.
Try putting the green tomatoes in a sealed container such as a baggie along with other ripening fruit like bananas.
Let me know how it works.
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