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Green Tomatoes: Top Ten Uses

10 years ago

Things to do with green unripe tomatoes. Please feel free to edit it to include your specialties. Green tomatoes are thought by scientists to bind or otherwise lower your cholesterol. Mulling this over, if you are into organic practices, you can try a green tomato fungicidal spray and see if it protects your ripening tomatoes from some blights.

1. Save seeds if they are at least 2/3 rds mature and make a volunteer surprise garden with them.

2. Batter dip and fry your green tomatoes.

3. Pickle your green tomatoes.

4. Make relish or chutneys with your green tomatoes

5. Replace them for Husk Tomatoes ("Tomatillos") in any recipe. Specifically, make green salsa ("salsa verde") with your green tomatoes.

6. Grill your green tomatoes on the Bar-be with meats.

7. Hollow your green tomatoes out and make stuffed tomatoes, like stuffed peppers or poppers.

8. Make jam with your green tomatoes.

9. Make curry with your green tomatoes.

  1. Throw your green tomatoes at poor, innocent, loveable, defenseless, cute squirrels to psychologically condition them to stay clear of your tomatoes.

This post was edited by PupillaCharites on Sun, Aug 24, 14 at 23:56

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