Sometimes we get green tomatoes in our weekly CSA share. Having grown tomatoes, we know that’s just the way tomatoes grow. They keep producing tomatoes, and some of them don’t get the time to ripen. Perhaps they’re knocked off the vines while harvesting ripe tomatoes, or, more likely, the season’s coming to an end and there are still a lot of tomatoes of varying ripeness on the vines, so you pick them before the first frost.
So, we know why we get green tomatoes, but we haven’t found a great way to eat green tomatoes. Sure, we’ve tried fried green tomatoes, and slipped a few green tomatoes into sauces to use them, and we’ve even made green tomato relish, but nothing stands out as a great way to eat green tomatoes.
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