What to do with a bunch of green tomatoes? Suggestions?

[bif]

[Auggie]

1. Fried Green Tomatoes. Or pickle them.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Green Tomato Relish

http://southernfood.about.com/od/picklesrelishes/r/r80810b.htm

Also known as chow-chow or piccalillli, this relish is great with sausages, pork, and ham, or serve it with hot dogs or burgers.
Ingredients:

5 cups coarsely chopped green tomatoes (about 5 tomatoes)
5 cups coarsely chopped cabbage (about 1 1/2 pounds cabbage)
1 1/2 cups finely chopped yellow onion or sweet onion
2 cups coarsely chopped bell pepper, at least 1 red for color (about 4 peppers)
1/3 cup kosher salt or pickling salt
2 1/2 cups cider vinegar
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 tablespoon yellow mustard seeds
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes, or to taste, optional

Preparation:
Combine the chopped vegetables in a large nonreactive kettle or bowl. Add the salt and stir to combine thoroughly. Cover and let stand for 4 hours or refrigerate overnight.

Prepare the canner and jars. Add water to a canner with rack and heat to a boil; reduce heat and keep at a simmer. The water should be high enough to be at least 1 inch above the filled jars. I usually fill it about halfway and I keep a kettle or saucepan of water boiling on another burner to add to the canner as needed. Wash jars thoroughly and heat water in a small saucepan; put the lids in the saucepan and bring almost to the boil; lower heat to very low to keep the lids hot.

Drain the vegetables and rinse thoroughly.

In a large nonreactive kettle, bring the vinegar, brown sugar, and seeds and spices to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low and continue simmering for 5 minutes. Add the drained vegetables and bring back to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 10 minutes.

With a slotted spoon, pack the vegetables into prepared jars. Cover vegetables with the pickling liquid, leaving about 1/4-inch headspace.

With a clean dampened cloth, wipe the rims of the jars. Place the flat lids on the jars then close caps with screw-on rings tightly, but do not over-tighten. Arrange the filled jars in the canner and add more water, as needed, to be at least 1 inch above the jars. Bring to a full boil. Cover and continue boiling for 10 minutes. Remove the relish to a rack to cool completely.

Check for seals (the middle of the caps should have made a popping sound while cooling and will stay depressed.
Makes about 4 pints.

[pscot]

3. If there's a congress person handy

they make excellent missiles.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Green tomato cake!

spicy and moist.. no-one will believe there's tomatoes in there.

found link... http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/green-tomato-cake/detail.aspx

[The empressof all]

14. Eeeks....I didn't see you beat me to it!

I love them in cake. I have also made green tomato mincemeat to use in pie, cakes and cookies as well. Very very yummy.

http://oneperfectbite.blogspot.com/2010/09/green-tomato-mincemeat-daring-cooks.html#.UojqkuJcfWg

I don't use even close to the fat in this recipe. I use only about a tablespoon of butter or coconut oil. Peanut Oil works well too. It really is a throw together kind of project. I have used combos of sugars and have even done it with Agave and brown rice syrup. What ever you have handy works well. Taste as you go....and you can't go wrong. You can adjust the measures down or up. I usually make mine in my Nesco and pack it in bags for the freezer. It's great to add to cookies or quick bread or even just as a sweet condiment or ice cream topping

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. it's good enough to mention twice.

[Retrograde]

16. Sounds interesting - my tomatoes are finally producing

Yeah, it's November. They stood around all summer sucking up my water and not doing anything, but now one bush in particular has just decided that it's apparantly the last hope for tomato kind and is loaded with small green tomatoes (and tons of blossoms: it's going to be surprised when the frosts come next month).

I've tried ripening green ones indoors in the past, and they're just not the same.

[enough]

5. If they're in good shape, you can also let some of them ripen.

I'm expecting to have fresh ripe tomatoes from my garden for Thanksgiving this year. They were picked before our first frost a couple of weeks ago. I have a couple nice red ones ready every couple of days.

There are a lot of different methods for doing this, check Google. I don't do anything at all except let them sit where I can keep an eye on them.

[In_The_Wind]

6. Enjoy some of them fried.

Fried Green Tomatoes
Makes: about 20 slices Hands-On Time: 30 min. Total Time: 40 min.

4 medium-size green tomatoes (about 1 1/3 lb.)
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. pepper
1 cup self-rising white cornmeal mix
½ cup panko (Japanese breadcrumbs)
½ cup all-purpose flour
4 egg whites
3 Tbsp. olive oil

1. Cut tomatoes into ½-inch-thick slices; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Let stand 10 minutes.
2. Combine cornmeal mix and panko in a shallow dish or pie plate. Place flour in a second shallow dish or pie plate. Whisk egg whites in a medium bowl until foamy. Dredge tomato slices in flour, shaking off excess. Dip in egg whites, and dredge in cornmeal mixture.
3. Cook half of tomato slices in 1½ Tbsp. hot oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat 4 to 5 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Season with salt to taste. Place on a wire rack in a jelly-roll pan, and keep warm in a 225° oven. Repeat procedure with remaining tomato slices and oil

[bif]

7. I'll have to try this. Sounds tasty!

[In_The_Wind]

8. That is a healthy version of the one I grew up eating.

The Southerner in me is never going to die.

[cbayer]

9. Let them ripen?

I once made a cross country trip with a box of green tomatoes.

They ripened along the road and we had delicious tomatoes for our picnics!

[applegrove]

10. If they are still on the vine you can hang them upside down in hopes

that they turn more red. Or you can make green tomato chutney which is really good.

[grasswire]

11. I throw my end of season green tomatoes into the freezer...

....to use when making enchilada sauce or tortilla soup.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Green tomato fight ! nt

[The empressof all]

13. Google Green Tomato Cake for the recipe

I really like the one that is more like a quick bread. I add raisins or currents as well. It's delicious and it freezes well. You can also do a glammed up version with frosting as a proper dessert.

I also have made cookies by just subbing out the green tomatoes for apples in an applesauce cookie. I'm sorry I just threw it together from an apple cookie recipe and used brown sugar and extra cinnamon. Just dice the tomatoes into small chunks. It's nice with a few chocolate chips thrown in as well if you like fruit with chocolate.

You can also make it into Green Tomato Mincemeat for pie or as an ingredient in cookies or cakes. It's really really delicious.