Green Tomato Contest Starts Today

Do you love green tomatoes? We do. Those solid, slightly sour sign of harvest's end are an entirely under appreciated treat, so we're kicking off a contest to celebrate them.

We're looking for your creative ideas on cooking with green tomatoes this fall. To enter the contest, send us your favorite green tomato project. It's doesn't have to be an original recipe, we just want to get you cooking with green tomatoes. There's more to green tomatoes than frying. Be creative!

The winner will receive a Wüsthof Classic 5" tomato knife, a Preserve cutting board from their new kitchenware line, a DVD of the film Fried Green Tomatoes, and a bar of Burt's Bees tomato soap. We'll send an Apartment Therapy market bag and bar of the tomato soap to five runners-up.

Here's a little green tomato inspiration from poet Joanne Scott Kennedy:

The Last Green Tomato
hangs tight and shiny-hard, too late-
born to plump and pink beneath
July’s blaze-hand and eye

Read on for the rules ...

This has to be a new project - not something you cooked and photographed previously. The point of this contest is to get us all cooking something new!

We'll need three things:

• Three digital photos: your ingredients, you making your green tomato dish, and the finished food.
• The recipe or technique (or a link to it) if you got it from somewhere else. If it's original, tell us.
• Where you bought or how you grew these tomatoes; any extra details about the tomatoes themselves. Please do use unripe green tomatoes, we know that some varieties are green when ripe.

Sara Kate, Faith, and Chris -- your hosts here at AT: Kitchen -- will be the judges for this contest. We'll be looking for creativity and the best use of seasonal ingredients.

To enter, email your pictures and links or recipes to kitchen(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com.

Entries are due by noon Eastern time on Monday, November 5. We'll announce the winner on November 9 and will post the winner and five runners-up here. One entry per person, please.

Comments (11)

Can we get a recipe for fried green tomatoes anyway? I want to make them.

Mmmmmm, green tomato catsup. Green tomato pasta sauce. Chopped green tomatoes with chopped cilantro, leeks and prosciutto as a chicken braise. Pureed green tomatoes used as the acid in a beef marinade. Green tomato pie. Gingered green tomato jam. Green tomato sorbet for an entremet. And a green tomato cake is both gorgeous and tangy!

I'll try to get the recipe from a friend of mine who is from South Carolina--pickled green tomatoes. Hot & Spicy Heaven!

The picture is not of green as in unripe tomatoes, right? They look like green zebras to me.

Pipsqueak, those do appear to be zebras. Whatever your recipe, as long as it calls for "Green Tomatoes," you're in.

I agree with Pipsqueak - those tomatoes look an awful lot like green zebras, which are green but not unripe. It would be a shame if people start to assume that all green tomatoes are unripe.

I'm confused --

In the post you say:
"Please do use unripe green tomatoes, we know that some varieties are green when ripe."

But in the comments:
"Whatever your recipe, as long as it calls for "Green Tomatoes," you're in."

Are zebras (et al) fair game? Because I'm having an impossible time finding unripe tomatoes this year.

Regarding the photo of "you making your green tomato dish", do I need to be in the picture or should it just show the cooking process?

Thanks,
Tonia

I am also confused by the rules. Are we bound to green unripe tomatoes or can we use green heirloom tomatoes?