Green tomatoes

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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?

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[gardenfey.livejournal.com]

Fried green tomatoes, or chutney.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[cloudwatcher.livejournal.com]

Here you go:

http://www.sweetbabymedia.com/recipes/special/greentomato.shtml

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

My dad used to pickel them (quartered).

[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!

[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)

[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.

[artisticphoenix.livejournal.com]

My mother, being very frugal, used to wrap them in newspaper and put them on the windowsill. They would then ripen.