Thread: Green tomatoes

elaich <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I remember
> someone in my childhood days pickling them.

Have you ever watched 'Forest Gump'?

You can cook green tomatoes any which way Bubba suggested.

-sw

elaich wrote:
> I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I remember
> someone in my childhood days pickling them.
Here you go:

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/can_06/...en_tomato.html

On 16-Oct-2008, elaich <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I
> remember
> someone in my childhood days pickling them.

Green tomato relish; also known as chow-chow and picalilli
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"elaich" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
>I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I remember
> someone in my childhood days pickling them.

I made Kosher dill pickles with them this year. Good. I also cut them in
half and sauteed them in the cooking pan in which meat had just been cooked
and that was nice too.
I used to make chutney, but it isn't that useful here.

elaich wrote:
> I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I remember
> someone in my childhood days pickling them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/da...ney_8201.shtml
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2...tomato-chutney

BugBear

l, not -l wrote:
> On 16-Oct-2008, elaich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I
>> remember
>> someone in my childhood days pickling them.
>
> Green tomato relish; also known as chow-chow and picalilli


Exactly what I was thinking! My dad loved picallili

Jill

On Oct 16, 7:03 pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
> elaich <x...@y.z> wrote:
> > I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I remember
> > someone in my childhood days pickling them.
>
> Have you ever watched 'Forest Gump'?
>
> You can cook green tomatoes any which way Bubba suggested.
>
> -sw

Is Bubba still living?

On 17-Oct-2008, "jmcquown" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Exactly what I was thinking! My dad loved picallili
>
> Jill

It is one of my favorites; my maternal grandmother's was absolutely my
favorite. My mother's is pretty tasty too; sadly, at 87, she no longer has
a source for the green tomatoes, nor the energy to put up several quarts, as
she once did. My brother-in-law made some last year; it was pretty good,
but quite sweet compared with my mother's or grandmother's.

Perhaps I should take a look at the Farmer's Market today to see if there is
some for sale.

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l, not -l wrote:
> On 16-Oct-2008, elaich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I
>> remember
>> someone in my childhood days pickling them.
>
> Green tomato relish; also known as chow-chow and picalilli

Chow chow (as I know it) includes cauliflower, red bell peppers and
sometimes carrots.

On 19-Oct-2008, "jmcquown" <[email protected]> wrote:

> l, not -l wrote:
> > On 16-Oct-2008, elaich <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I
> >> remember
> >> someone in my childhood days pickling them.
> >
> > Green tomato relish; also known as chow-chow and picalilli
>
> Chow chow (as I know it) includes cauliflower, red bell peppers and
> sometimes carrots.

Probably true; but, in the part of the south where I grew up (western KY)
green tomato relish covers a continuum of finished product, which includes
variations such as chow-chow and picallili. There are variations that are
sweet, or not, contain fruit (tart apple, for example), or not, contain
...... The constants were vinegar and a preponderance of green tomato.

As an old, southern traditional use of "whats left in the garden", there are
a few things that are traditional; everything else in variable. The same
was true of another of my childhood favorites - burgoo; my favorite was made
as a fund-raiser for the elementary school. Every parent was asked to bring
an ingredient to add to the base; but, nobody coordinated the selections.
Every year the result was a bit different, but always great burgoo.

Where I grew up, few dishes had "hard-and-fast" recipes (which is pretty
much how I cook today); if a recipe was written down, it was just a
baseline.
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We prepared "stewed green tomatoes" the other night.

1/4 cup diced onion
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cups sliced green tomatoes
1/2 teaspoon salt (more or less according to preference)
1 tablespoon paprika (we prefer the kind that's not hot)
1/2 teaspoon curry (more or less according to preference)(some curries are quite hot)

In a medium skillet, sauté the onion in the olive oil.
Add the remaining ingredients.
Cover and cook about ten minutes or until tomatoes are soft but not mushy.
If there's too much liquid, take off the cover.

It's an okay recipe. Not great.

JK

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elaich wrote:
> I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I remember
> someone in my childhood days pickling them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/da...ney_8201.shtml
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2...tomato-chutney

BugBear

On Oct 17, 7:59�am, "jmcquown" <j_mcqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
> l, not -l wrote:
> > On 16-Oct-2008, elaich <x...@y.z> wrote:
>
> >> I know you can fry them, but what others ways to use them? Seems I
> >> remember
> >> someone in my childhood days pickling them.
>
> > Green tomato relish; also known as chow-chow and picalilli
>
> Exactly what I was thinking! �My dad loved picallili
>
> Jill


Of course he loved picallili... sounds
like a kinky/perverted sex act. <g>