I absolutely love fried green tomatoes. This looks great!
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Damn, that's a serious tomato operation you've got! If you run out of canning space, try sun-drying some - just slice, salt lightly, and leave in the sun (or low oven) - they shrink down to nothing and the flavor gets super concentrated, perfect for winter cooking when you miss that real tomato taste.
We've had the wettest July in recorded history and the August forecast doesn't look good either..
That's a lot of tomatoes! What are you gonna do with all that?
Eat as much as possible fresh, but that's hardly going to make a dent. The rest will be turned into passata, sauces, etc. I've got a lot of jars - I've been buying by literal pallet load.
Does your household use that much tomato goods through the year? Do you sell/ give away a good portion of that?
We do use quite a bit - when you have a lot of it and it's delicious you don't second guess yourself when using it.
Plus share with family and friends.
No OP but we are a family of five. We grow a lot of our own and preserve it. We grow around 400 tomato plants a year. Cherry tomatoes and san Marzano paste as well as some favorite hierlooms. We make all our own pasta sauce, tomato paste, salsa, bruschetta, canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, pizza sauce, ketchup, sun dried tomatoes and whatever else I am forgetting. We use all our tomatoes in a year. Which is easily several hundred pounds.
Honest question: what does everyone do with those first green tomatoes?
I get I'm fat and a woman, but don't get that.
Option 1: Fried Green Tomatoes.
Option 2: Let them ripen - tomatoes can ripen off the vine pretty well, a lot of people recommend harvesting them early to reduce chances of pests beating you to the punch.
As long as you harvest them when they have at least a touch of yellow you can just leave them sitting them until they ripen.
Chow Chow is our traditional go to for green tomatoes. I'm really into green curry chow chow right now. Salsa Verde is also awesome as is roasted green tomato sauce.
I'm not understanding what self depreciation has to do with green tomatoes however. You should be nicer to yourself.
Lucky, my fruit has just started setting, but it’s also not looking like a good year. Heat wave during the start and it’s been only 6c a few times the last couple weeks and they don’t like that.
Quick! Somebody give me a knife and a shaker of salt!
So jealous