In Phoenix, you can garden year-round. If you get tomatoes in early enough in the fall, you can get another harvest in. If you are a bit late, you wind up with three large bowls of green tomatoes! Here is what I did with them.
PRINTABLE GREEN TOMATOES GARDEN CLUB HANDOUT
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Frozen chopped Green Tomatoes – ****
Classic Pickled Green Tomato – Martha Stewart –
Green Tomato Bread – Suggests frozen chopped green tomatoes – *****
Fire Roasted Green Salsa – Latina Mama Rama – ****
Amish Green Tomato Relish – Sandra Jones – ***
Scalloped Green Tomatoes – Martha Stewart – ***
Green Tomato Mincemeat – Recipe Curio – **
Green Tomato Mincemeat – Food.com – ***
Grandma’s Fried Green Tomatoes – Delishably.com – **
Green Tomato Pie – Taste of Home – *
Notes:
- Use Green Tomato Pie to create Green Tomato Tartlets using Puff Pastry
- Green tomatoes WILL eventually ripen. They will not have the full flavor of a vine-ripened tomato, but will be just as good as supermarker ‘maters. This can take anywhere from one to five weeks. You can speed up the ripening process by putting them in a paper bag with a banana. The ethylene gas (a natural growth hormone) from the banana will speed the tomato ripening process.
- Shop locally and seasonally. Buy firm but not mushy. Don’t refrigerate or it will kill the flavor.
