KrisK Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Okay, I've got LOTS of green tomatoes, and I don't pickle, can, or make relish. However, I do remember making a chocolate cake with green tomatoes a year or two ago, and cannot find the dang recipe! I tried 'cooks.com' but the only one I found close to it was one that involved beer...(which I prefer to drink on a warm day..not put in my cakes Has anyone got a recipe to share??? If you're close by...I even send a sample of the finished product Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smileyzookie Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 http://www.recipezaar.com That is my favorite recipe website. I get all my recipes from there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airbear Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 I found this one: http://www.abc.net.au/riverina/stories/s1619682.htm Let me know how it turns out - I've never heard of chocolate green tomato cake! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo&Tex Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 I'm sure you also want my recipe for chocolate zuchinni cake. I just know how much you LOVE zuchinni. (Leave your car unlocked - PLEASE) My gardening tip is to go out and remove every yellow tomato flower and small fruit you can find and cut off the top of each plant. Then the plant will put energy in ripening instead of motherhood. 'Course, we are going to have a good frost someday soon and that will also solve your problem. Loki will come over and help you harvest, he thinks they are crunchy tennis balls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bailey44 Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 cake, smake, I'm sure your cake will be tasty, but my mouth is watering thinking about FRYING those babies up for dinner!! yum. Charlene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Oop Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Here is a Green Tomato Cake recipe for you, Kris. Green Tomato Cake I like green tomatoes most ways, but must admit that the cake thing is a new idea for me. Enjoy the tomatoes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheri McDonald Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Oh Kris, wish I was closer I would take some off our hands. I love green tomato pickles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo&Tex Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Someone in my neighbourhood has been commiting nocturnal drive by zuchinning of the local populace. I've heard that they are about to begin cover of darkness green tomato deposits. (who me? would I do that? I live with see-no-evil and hear-no-evil so there are no witnesses, heeheehee) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Anne Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 I'm with Bailey44... fry up those babies! OMG, yummy. I mix up flour, with a little salt and pepper and garlic powder, cut tomatoe in thick slices and fry in a good oil (vegtable, or canola) etc. Make sure the oil is nice and hot, fry till tender, place on a papertowel for a moment or 2 and eat and enjoy. You may want a little more salt after fried, but wow... are they good. You can do the same thing and add to an omlett with whatever else you like, only I usually dice the tomatoe in chunks, fry and then poor in egg.. YUMMY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Anne Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Dah.... I'm sure you figured this out anyway, but just in case... you coat the sliced tomatoe in the flour mixture, then fry... my mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixie_Girl Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 Mix equal amounts of cornmeal and flour. Wet maters in milk or well mixed egg before flouring them. Jeeze! Now I gotta go get some out of the garden and fry some up too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Anne Posted September 19, 2006 Report Share Posted September 19, 2006 yummy, I have never coated in cornmeal and wet with milk or egg.. gotta try that. It's hard to believe something as good as fried green tomatoes are actually pretty good for ya and not so high in calories. Man, just give me a huge plate of fried green tomatoes, a salt shaker, and an ice cold brewsky! Yummmmmmmmmy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodenlion Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Oh, Yum fried green tomatoes....I use green tomatoes for cooking they add a nice tang to dishes. Chicken sauted in garlic and olive oil with slices of sauteed green tomatoes. Dash of basil or oregano.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silhouettestable Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Another option (since you don't pickle, can or make relish), is to store them. They'll keep best if you wrap each one separately in newspaper and then put them in a box and layer them with cardboard between. Apple boxes work great too if you can get them with the cardboard layers that have the little "cups" in them. Keep your box somewhere fairly cool and dark (like a dry basement) and bring up a few tomatoes at a time to ripen on a windowsill or the counter. You should also check on the stored tomatoes fairly often as even in the dark they can begin to ripen slowly, and if one does by chance begin to spoil you don't want it to make the rest go bad. I never seem to get many tomatoes ripening before the risk of frost so I pick them green every year and my mom stores them this way. (I don't actually eat tomatoes, I grow them for her). If lots begin to ripen at the same time she will also cook them up into spaghetti sauce and then freeze that. I've already picked mine all off about a week ago, we had a few nights that got pretty cool. I didn't personally see any frost but my neighbour across the road said there was a bit. My beans, cucumbers and pumpkins plants have been hit by some frost I guess, they're starting to look kind of wilted and black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack & Co. Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Silhouettestable, that is a great suggestion. My mother-in-law has always wrapped green tomatoes in newspaper because she wanted to be to serve ripe tomatoes at Thanksgiving and boast that they weren't store bought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silhouettestable Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Originally posted by Jack & Co.:Silhouettestable, that is a great suggestion. My mother-in-law has always wrapped green tomatoes in newspaper because she wanted to be to serve ripe tomatoes at Thanksgiving and boast that they weren't store bought! Wouldn't your climate allow you to have fresh tomatoes at Thanksgiving? I apologize if that sounds stupid to you, I'm not very familiar with the weather for most of the US. I just remember going on family vacations during March break when I was a young child. We'd go from cold and snow here down to beautiful warm sunny weather in Myrtle Beach (which I do realize is in SC, not NC). I thought you might be able to keep a garden growing for most of the year. Of course, the US Thanksgiving holiday is also later than the Canadian one. Ours is in only 2 1/2 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack & Co. Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 I'm in the Piedmont (middle) section of NC and we will have several frosts by October or the beginning of November. However, our summers can be very tough and my area has been plagued by droughts over the past several years so lots of vegetables have pooped out by now. My mother pulled up all of her tomatoes last week. Some folks root "suckers" or start fresh plants and maybe if they are protected you could still have fresh tomatoes at the end of November. March can be a tricky month in North and South Carolina! It can be warm and lovely or it can be cold, blustery, and yucky. The year I was born, it snowed every Wednesday of the month of March. We haven't had much snow to speak of the last couple of years and my boys are dying for some! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeezSK Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Yeh we just started getting frost at night here so all of our tomatoes got picked green. Put them in a cardboard box and leave the flaps closed so it's dark. They'll turn red Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silhouettestable Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 I guess we lucked out then on our family trips to Myrtle Beach when I was little. I always remember it being warm and sunny, (except the one time when there was a hurricane! Though even then the weather wasn't bad for the entire trip). They were calling for it to go down to 0 C last night around here so yesterday I picked everything out of my friends' garden whose place I'm taking care of while they're on vacation. I even brought in my onions that I had sitting out to dry. If they were still in the ground they would have been okay I'm sure, but sitting out I was afraid that they might freeze. Has anyone ever heard of (or have any experience with) a winter garden? I've heard of leaving some of the root vegetables in the garden all winter and just digging them up as needed. I think you may have to apply a deep layer of mulch though, and of course you'd have to dig through the snow to get at the veggies when you need them. Just wondering if anyone's ever done it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisK Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 I haven't done the winter garden myself, but I did hear about someone in Thunder Bay (I think) who buried his carrots with a heavy layer of mulch and had carrots all winter. Check this site out...it might be what you're looking for http://westsidegardener.com/quick/winter_veggies.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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