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As I nestled the tomato plants into their support cages today, I knocked a couple of unripe green tomatoes off the plants. Can I do anything with them?

Date: 2006-07-30 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gardenfey.livejournal.com
Fried green tomatoes, or chutney.

Date: 2006-07-31 12:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com
Sliced, they'll work as a substitute for apples in apple pie. It's also possible that sitting them on a windowsill for a while will ripen them to normalcy.

Date: 2006-07-31 02:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com
Oh, Cynthia -- you can't be serious.

Date: 2006-07-31 02:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rufinia.livejournal.com
That was green pumpkin laura's ma used in.... The Long WInter? I remember the passage you're refering to, and i'm pretty sure it's pumpkin.

(Did you know that in The First Four Years, when Laura makes a pie out of "Pie Plant" she was talking about rhubard? I found that out last week. I thought it was some random plant, not one my mom had in our backyard.)

Date: 2006-07-31 04:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com
My mom used to make pickled green tomatoes, and also slice them and fry them. And I'm afraid the mental "taste" of them pickled and deep fried is completely at odds with anything sweet.... sorry!

Date: 2006-07-31 12:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com
I remember how shocked I was to find that Ember Day Tart, quite sweet, had onions as the major ingredient.

Date: 2006-07-31 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com
I do remember that one feast in my experience, too! It's the Infamous Onions and Raisin Feast, from about 1980, where everything Duchess Caellyn made had one or the other, or both, in it.

Date: 2006-07-31 01:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rufinia.livejournal.com
Um...okay. But I was agreeing with you about the green tomatoes being kinda weird for a substitute for apple pie filling.

Date: 2006-07-31 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com
Ah, got it. Sorry for the non comprehension there!

(Can I use the excuse that jen's 2nd trimester brain rot is contagious?)

Date: 2006-08-01 12:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com
I don't think so. After all, if it was communicable, then the baby would be beaming mind-grow-waves at you and you'd be sharper than a tack now!

Date: 2006-08-01 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com
Not sucking it out?

Date: 2006-07-31 12:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alienor.livejournal.com
You may be able to put them in a bag with ripe tomatoes and they'll emit a gas or something that will ripen the green ones. I've never done it, but that's why mom always told me not to leave a bunch of tomatoes in a bag together.

Date: 2006-07-31 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cloudwatcher.livejournal.com
They are really yummy sliced and baked on top of a pizza, or used to make green tomato salsa.

I actually prefer green tomatoes to ripe ones.

Date: 2006-07-31 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com
My dad used to pickel them (quartered).

Date: 2006-07-31 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hrj.livejournal.com
My mom has a recipe for green tomato relish, but that takes a bit more than just a couple. But other than some extra tartness, I'd think you could use then for any regular cooked tomato purpose.

Sure!

Date: 2006-07-31 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] new-man.livejournal.com
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/15226

(BTW, epicurious.com has about a billion recipes with "green tomato" as an ingredient)

Date: 2006-07-31 10:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] its-just-me.livejournal.com
Fry em up!! I tried it for the first time last year and boy were they good. I just used seasoned flour and nothing else.

Date: 2006-07-31 03:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] artisticphoenix.livejournal.com
My mother, being very frugal, used to wrap them in newspaper and put them on the windowsill. They would then ripen.
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