the freeze is coming

Pick them and leave them in a sunny window .

pick them and bring them inside.

better than losing them.

green tomatoes are edible, but even if you don't eat them green they may eventually ripen.

just keep an eye on them for ones the begin to rot.

songbird

i'll take any unwanted green tomatoes. :)

due to life events i missed out on bingeing on green fried tomatoes this year. :/

I've heard some say it is better to cut the part of the vine(s) with fruit and bring that in. But I don't have any experience trying that.

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ha!

sad...

for some reason we've never been into putting any coating on them and just fry them in butter.

songbird

i've never done any experiments to know what is better or not, but it works well enough without having to deal with all those stems. sometimes we've had several tables set up in the garage for all of them to be able to be left to ripen but this year i brought most of them into the house in stages so we didn't have many decent tomatoes left to worry about. so many have deep splits in them this late season (due to heat and me not watering) that they've been left to be buried. i didn't want to water them that much because the flavor was so sweet and i didn't want to dillute it.

songbird

Will the chill be sufficiently short lived that you can cover them up one night?

The *really* green ones make a nice addition to giardienera.

What is your recipe?

On the bright side, I have a ton of goji berries. They get really yummy when they have gone through a freeze (removes the bitterness).

I can't bread anything due to the diabetes. You just use butter? Fry one side and flip them?

How thin do you cut them?

about 1cm, flip after a bit. i like things on the firm side so they don't get too mushy, but you can do what you like according to your own preferences. :)

with a coating on them i'd probably want it cooked to golden brown at least (or more) and that is too mushy for me.

you mention bitterness being an issue but that hasn't ever been a problem for me as i tend to like things tart.

songbird

:)

we bought some tomato plants at a nursery and got them in the beds very late. they didn't grow well or produce much. pulled them up last night. frost is very near. they didn't root like i'm used to seeing and think it may be from the weather already being hot when they were planted.

the pepper plants i got at the nursery on the other hand did great.

we toss them in a bit of flour and fry in butter.

i like them crispy and well browned on the outside and juicy in the middle. i cut them 1/4 to 3/8 inch thick, set the slices on a saucer with some flour in it, flip, fry both sides in butter. no particular time, they're done when they look and feel right.

Fresh goji's are not really very tasty.

I do consume choke berries, which are very tart. Love them.

I think I know why the frying. The heat destroys the acid that causes the sour taste.