Fall is definitely in the air this week, as they are predicting highs of 55 degrees most of the days, which means the end of gardening for me.\u00a0 This summer we were blessed to grow, sunflowers (got two bags full of sunflower seeds which my father loves), cucumbers, lettuce, carrots, radishes, and tomatoes.\u00a0 Half of the tomato plants weren’t even planted they just came back from last years tomatoes and so we had tomatoes coming out of our ears:).\u00a0 Not a bad problem to have as you can always can them or freeze them (we chose to freeze them) but what do you do with all the green tomatoes that are still on the plants?\u00a0 We ended up with many green tomatoes because it was such a dry summer and due to the fact that fall came on so quickly this year.\u00a0 We decided to try some recipes.\u00a0 In the past we had made fried green tomatoes but I’m not a fan as I really don’t like to fry things in my house due to the smell that seems to permeate the house after frying.\u00a0 We made green tomato crisp where instead of using apples you use green tomatoes.\u00a0 We served it to my husband and father without telling them what was in it just telling them it was apple crisp.\u00a0 They couldn’t tell it wasn’t apple crisp and loved it (course when they learned that it had green tomatoes in they weren’t as impressed).<\/p>\n
This year we made Green Tomato Cake<\/a>, it was amazing, so moist, tasted just like spice cake.\u00a0 We put a cream cheese\/sour cream\/brown sugar frosting on top and once again served it to the guys (this time they were a little more leery) and they loved it again.\u00a0 Course when we asked them if they wanted to know what was it in they immediately said no!<\/p>\n My mom is also going to try and make a green tomato strawberry freezer jam so we will see how that turns out.\u00a0 Any green tomato recipes you love?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fall is definitely in the air this week, as they are predicting highs of 55 degrees most of the days, which means the end of gardening for me.\u00a0 This summer we were blessed to grow, sunflowers (got two bags full … Continue reading