Green Tomatoes

[SouthernBelle]

On my fried green tomatoes, I dip in milk, dip in flour, dip in egg, dip in cornmeal. Of course they must be fried in a cast iron skillet or dutch oven.

Don't go too green with them. Let them lighten up a bit.

[carpaltunnel]

I make dill pickles with the small ones, or even quarter the larger ones so they'll absorb the brine. wash the tomatoes, put in sterile jars with dill, garlic buds, and if you like hot, a pinch of red pepper flakes. Boil brine and pour over the pickles in the jar, and seal. If they don't seal I keep them in the refrigerator and eat them first.

The crisp recipe sounds great!

[Lifesgreat]

Hey Yellow!

We picked a bunch of tomatoes before the storm and are keeping the green ones in the garage. In the past, we have had luck wrapping them in newspaper and waiting for them to ripen. Don't know what DH's plans are for them this year. I also gave a bunch of green ones to a friend who likes to fry them.

We gave away a lot of tomatoes this year to "tomatoless" friends. Seems like the bees really liked our yard and didn't go anywhere else.

I left a "pickling cucumber disguised as a pumpkin" in the yard. I wasn't going to eat it. . .

[Grog]

For as long as I can remember, my mother has made a so-called "green ketchup" which until very recently I thought was "relish" (it's not, obviously) but rather green-tomato based. It's SO good on everything, including Shepard's pie.

Actually Shepard's pie is ONLY good with green ketchup.

I have no idea what the recipe is but it's probably something like onions and green tomatoes. I could ask if you want.

[yellow]

We picked a bunch of tomatoes before the storm and are keeping the green ones in the garage. In the past, we have had luck wrapping them in newspaper and waiting for them to ripen.

Garage? What's that?

Remember my little house? Now picture boxes and bowls of tomatoes. They are now spread all over, some in windowsills, some in the fridge, some in the freezer, and a bunch still on the counter. I'm going to skip the wrapping and just keep them in boxes and will rotate them, kind of like an incubator. That is, until I have a space-related hissy fit (they seem to happen weekly) and they end up...somewhere else.

Off topic: we've been in this small--by American standards--house for 3 years now, intentionally choosing it because of its size (1200 SF, which includes a finished attic, no garage, built in 1890). I really thought I would have adapted by now, but I haven't. I'm grateful for what I have, but, man, this bumping into stuff all the time makes me c-r-a-b-b-y.

[Blueberry]

Off topic: we've been in this small--by American standards--house for 3 years now, intentionally choosing it because of its size (1200 SF, which includes a finished attic, no garage, built in 1890). I really thought I would have adapted by now, but I haven't. I'm grateful for what I have, but, man, this bumping into stuff all the time makes me c-r-a-b-b-y.

I'm right there with you!! We'd be fine in our 1500 sq ft (with a couple of hundred square feet lost in a strange little room where the attic access pulls down, but not useful for anything else) house for about a year. Without 9 bikes (including a tandem) and a bike trailer + a golden retriever in the house, we'd be fine. But yeah - there's just not a lot of clearance between stuff. And we've significantly de-junked. There's a long way to go...

Ours was built in 1912.

CA

[yellow]

Without 9 bikes (including a tandem) and a bike trailer + a golden retriever in the house, we'd be fine. But yeah - there's just not a lot of clearance between stuff. And we've significantly de-junked. There's a long way to go...

We have 2 Labs with extremely happy tails. But we only have 4 bikes in the house (the other 4 are divided between the itty bitty basement, a garden shed, and our neighbor's garage)! Dog beds take up a lot of space!

The nice thing about a small house is that you have to de-junk. And it keeps us from accumulating things other than bicycles, fishing rods, and running shoes.

Here's my cute house