HELP! fall is here and i have a multitude of green tomatoes

topic posted Wed, October 14, 2009 - 2:48 AM by  jezabel1961
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I hate to just throw them away, but i really dont know what to do with them. In addition to the few plants in the garden, there are also two large volunteer plants that took over the compost pile. a few years ago, I hung the plants in the basement before the first freeze and they did ripen and turn red. They were good enough to freeze and put in stews and chili. I was hoping someone could share their recipes for green tomatoes. I've heard of fried tomatoes of course, and pickles......i'm not a pickle fan, but i will try the fried maters for the first time this year. Any other ideas?
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jezabel1961
Washington
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  • I dislike green tomatoes, so this is my solution. I might be too late to the conversation, but I bring my tomatoes in and ripen them. My neighbor pulls out the whole plant and hangs them by the roots in the garage. I don't have space for that so I pick them, put them in cardboard boxes and keep them in the garage. They should not be piled -- just one layer on the bottom of the box. This year I sorted them by how much ripening they needed -- the greenest ones in one box, pink in another, etc. You need to keep an eye on them and grab the ones that get ripe and the ones that decide to mold instead. The ones that ripened first made good eating, and yesterday I made sauce with the last of the ones I brought in (we had a freeze early in October).

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