It's green tomato time! Time for all those not-yet-ripe tomatoes to come inside off the vines before they wither in the frost. I pulled several pounds of green tomatoes out of my own garden, and I'm curious: What's your favorite way to cook and eat green tomatoes?
We actually ran a green tomato recipe contest a few years ago, and I still have my eye on one of the finalist recipes:
• Kerry's Curried Green Tomatoes
But the classic way to eat green tomatoes is fried, of course:
• Recipe Recommendation: Fried Green Tomatoes
Not all green tomatoes are doomed to stay green. If they have just the barest hint of red beginning, then you can leave them in a paper bag to ripen. (Or on a sunny windowsill, or next to an apple — everyone has a different method, apparently...)
• Quick Tip: How to Ripen Green Tomatoes
But most of the tomatoes I have are hard, green, and crisp. Here are a few more inspiring posts on the topic:
• What To Do With Green Tomatoes
• Got Green Tomatoes? 5 Ways to Use Them Up!
• Indulgence: Fried Green Tomato Sandwich
Do you have any green tomato plans this fall?
Related: Green Tomato Finalist #3: Tonia's Eggs Benedict with Green Tomatoes
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Genevieve
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The curried tomatoes and chow-chow sound great. I've had fried green tomatoes at restaurants before. But I recently fried some of my own--double breaded in corn meal and Old Bay and made my best blt yet. I didn't intend on making fried green tomatoes but was having guests over and realized I had only one ripe yellow tomato and a bunch of green tomatoes. So, the fried and fresh blt was born. My friends home-made guanciale bacon had something to do with it too. Great texture! BLT
I loved fried green tomatoes! I use them in my Georgia BLT like this -- http://www.lanascooking.com/2010/09/07/georgia-blt/
How timely. I have about 10lb of green tomatoes sitting on my counter...
Fried!!!
My favorite green tomato dish is fried green tomato po-boy with remoulade at Crabby Jack's restaurant in New Orleans (http://www.yelp.com/biz/crabby-jacks-jefferson). At home I saute them sliced or diced in butter with bread crumbs and garlic, and have them over grits.
They are great simply grilled.
Our yard is shaded so our tomato plants were a bit sad this year. I collected the last of them and made fried green tomatoes. They were delicious, especially in sandwiches for a few days after -- http://grabbingthegusto.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/fried-green-tomatoes/
I made a few new recipes at the end of this season, green tomato jam with ginger was my favorite. Here is a Link to Recipes on my blog.
I like fried green tomatoes, but only if they are being fried in someone else's kitchen!
Slow-roasted in olive oil with sea salt, onions, and garlic... they taste like a really good green salsa that way. YUM.
Salsa
Green Pozole
We have been eating green tomatoes all week. We made green tomato salsa, green tomato chutney, green tomato fritters and my favorite recipe of the week, this green tomato soup (we subbed fake ham to make it vegetarian):
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Green-Tomato-Soup-230446
I make green tomato pickles.
Green Tomato Chili
http://carfreeinannarbor.blogspot.com/2010/10/green-tomato-chili.html
Astrid
I actually waited a couple weeks and now all my greenies are red. I'm going to make roasted tomato sauce with them. Some have been sacrificed for tomato and avocado sandwiches. Such is life.
I was frying my green tomatoes (and loving it) until I came across this recipe:
http://www.manifestvegan.com/2010/08/green-tomato-onion-turnovers/
so delicious! i've made it several times. and i'm sure it could be made un-gluten-free with a regular pizza dough recipe.