What to do with green tomatoes???

That does sound good! Did you process it for ten minutes? The link doesn't specify.

MoonShine, this plant was a volunteer that popped up from the bagged topsoil I mixed into my raised bed. It's hard to tell what kind of tomato it is. I looked at a few pics on google and the color is very very similar. The fruit hasn't grown at all in the past month and any regular tomato would have turned red long before now.

The salsa sounds good. I don't have lime juice but I have lemon. I'll have to get to my jars and buy some lids. Dd doesn't like hot peppers but I have some red bells.

I have seen some really good recipes for pickled green tomatoes.

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I second the Green tomato mincemeat..Wonderful!

i have had boxes of wrapped gr tomatoes some yrs. They just sat in the kitchen. When red, I'd can. I love to make piccalilli w/green tomatoes.

I picked about 45 pounds of green tomatoes a couple weeks back, when I stripped my greenhouse. I put them in a single layer in large trays, and keep them in my garage which stays about 55 or so, on the floor. Because the lights are off most of the time, I don't bother to wrap them...I just laid a piece of cardboard over the trays.

Yesterday we picked out ripe ones, and put another 10 pounds or so in the freezer for making sauce or cooking with over the winter.

I don't know why you'd have to wrap them?

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Yup, green tomatoe mincemeat.

Green tomato pie
4 cups peeled thinly sliced green tomatoes
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 - 5 Tablespoons flour
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
Blend together sugar, spices, salt and flour. Toss with tomatoes and lemon juice. Place in a pastry lined 9 inch pie plate. Adjust top crust. Sprinkle lightly with white sugar and poke a few holes with a knife or fork. Bake at 425 degrees until tomatoes are soft and crust is slightly browned, 50-60 minutes.

This is really good. Tastes like apple pie. Really.

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I picked a couple and these are the kind that are green when they are ripe. The stem broke with very little pressure. Dd and I washed and cleaned and chopped. Then I cooked them with an acorn type squash and several onions, a red pepper diced, added garlic powder, a bit of lemon peel, parsley and some chicken bullion. Yep, still vile. I even mixed some with duck noodles but still couldn't hide the nastiness. Dd liked it. I'll serve some to dh tomorrow and see what he says but I'll say this now, I will never try cooking green tomatoes again. Vile, that's about all I can say, vile!

I asked a neighbor what he does with green tomatoes. He said he throws them at people. They might be good for that. I'll pick all the ones off this vine and send them to Lucasville with dh. I'm done! Blech!

http://canonchef.blogspot.com/2010/1...for-chile.html

My sister just sent me this link, it's a how to on green tomato chili, sounds really, really good.

Basically, because it doesn't always work, and you get a mouldy tomato or two. If they're wrapped, the fungus stays contained. If not, it's free to spread to all of them, and a mouldy one or two becomes a mouldy one or two dozen.

Bummer, sorry to hear that! I have never prepared green tomatoes and ever had them taste anything but sweet and good. Makes me wonder what was wrong with yours.

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I grill Green Tomatoes. Slice thick, drizzle olive oil, season with garlic salt and cracked pepper. Grill quickly over high heat and drizzle balsamic vinegar over. DELISH!

They're green tomatoes. Like green peppers, blech. Nothing wrong with them, they taste just like the ones my uncle used to fry. Absolutely vile!

I asked dd if I should add some chicken to the slop we made and she said that would be good. I guess I'll have to freeze it in single proportions for her.

If they're not ripe green, but green green, what about green tomato marmalade? Goes well with red meat. I think I got the recipe I used years ago from Joy of Cooking--haven't had any green tomatoes for a while. About equal parts lemons and green tomatoes, IIRC.

After trying the slop we ended up with last night I'm soured on green tomatoes. Even curry wouldn't make them any better. Blech!

Dh liked it, or so he said. I should probably just toss the whole mess and chalk it up to a learning experience.

Okay, we've pretty-well got the picture. You've found something that's easy to grow, easy to cook, BUT your husband and daughter love it, so it's going right off the menu.

I just hot pack it...but you could probably water bath them for 10 min.

Not love, like, but said with a kind of grimace on their faces. I've known them long enough to know when they might be lying. Neither offered to eat a big bowl of it for lunch. Dd didn't even touch it today and dh didn't want to take it to work for lunch.

I don't fix okra (even though I love it) because no-one else likes it. I settle for eating it raw from the garden or ordering it from Captain D's when we pass thru Circleville.

Ok, it's going in the trash tomorrow. Dd couldn't stand to finish the small bowl she was eating. I wanted to throw up from smelling it.