Tomato Time

[WazzuCoug]

Tomatoes are rolling in now: Cherokee Purple, Carbon, Yellow Brandywine, and a 2 1/2 lbs behemoth of a Kellog's Breakfast. There is a green one in the background of the pics calls Green Giant that is fully ripe when it is green (with a tiny bit of yellow), and it is FABULOUS. We have about six other varieties too. I love this time of year.

 

[Pink Julie]

I used to grow tomatoes with my dad as a child and I love the smell of them, brings back memories. Also love to eat them.

 

[KarenWV]

Yeah, by the time I'm able to start eating fresh tomatoes, corn, etc, the season will pretty much be over. But next year...

 

[Roni]

I need to find my green tomato relish recipe. It is what makes tuna salad Tuna Salad. The pics look great. I love that you have so many varieties. Do you can them ?

 

[JudyNY]

Homegrown tomatoes are the absolute best. Enjoy!!

 

[WazzuCoug]

I need to find my green tomato relish recipe. It is what makes tuna salad Tuna Salad. The pics look great. I love that you have so many varieties. Do you can them ?

We don't can them, at least not this year. We just eat a lot of fresh tomatoes and give some away. We'll eat them plain, like any other fruit sometimes, depending on the type. The Green Giants are wonderful on their own. We like gazpacho,so we'll make a few batches of that. Goat cheese and tomato omelets, tomato sandwiches, fresh salsa, I will make homemade marinara, but we'll eat it right away, or if I make extra I'll refrigerate it. We make our own tomato paste and freeze it.

What I've noticed this year (last year we didn't have much of a garden since I had my surgery mid-summer) is that now that I don't eat as much, we have a lot more left over. I can pickles, so I might add some various forms of tomatoes to my canning processes next year, but this year we are just eating them and giving some away to neighbors.

 

[Roni]

I need to find my green tomato relish recipe. It is what makes tuna salad Tuna Salad. The pics look great. I love that you have so many varieties. Do you can them ?

Still looking for my green tomato relish recipe, and my missing 1957 Betty Crocker cookbook.