There is a freeze warning tonight and I was hoping that the weather would stay warm enough for these late tomatoes to ripen but it didn’t happen. By admitting this, one could lose their right to being from the south but the thought of fried green tomatoes never appealed to me. Give me a vine ripened red tomato or nothing. I guess this is the right time to search YouTube on how to fry green tomatoes and I might get my southern card back.
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@Auburn … i picked several green tomatoes when i cleared my garden a couple weeks back… to plant a cover crop. It is covered in collards, kale, leaf lettuces and spinach now.
I just sit the green tomatoes on the counter… and about half of them have ripened now. We are going to have at least one more BLT dinner this year… maby 2.
I agree with you on frying green tomatoes… not my favorite use for tomatoes either… my favorite fryers from the garden are squash, okra, onions.
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Thanks. A few more ripe tomatoes would be great.
Had green fried tomatoes and salmon patties and fresh cooked greens (dock, dandelion, upland cress, chickory) … plus cornbread and a beverage. Yum, but there’s more green tomatoes and some change color and some I eat another day fried green.
(I did use olive oil…trying to stay healthy, lol.)
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Those are all big beef and each one was green when i picked them a couple weeks ago. I usually put them in a bag to ripen but just put these on the counter and they are ripening up pretty good.
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Do your counter ripened tomatoes get much flavor? I’ve had some turn red on the counter. They were okay but never tasted like much, far from a vine ripened tomato. I’ve started just using the green tomatoes in sauces, like you would use tomatillos.
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And chutney!
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@gibberellin … not like vine ripened… but better than store bought.
May try one of those tonight.
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I’d prefer a counter-top ripened green tomato I raised to an ethelene gas ripened green tomato imported from Mexico…that’s likely the history of the pretty red tomatoes at the big grocery stores.,and most
restaurants.
@Auburn … those are some good looking maters. I bet most of those will ripen nicely.
To ripen some faster you could put some in a chamber like my persimmon ripening chamber.
Put one or two of those that are more ripe… or perhaps a ripe bananna in there with others that you want to ripen faster.
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Good idea. Thanks