Green Tomatoes

These recipes were submitted by garden member, Cheryl.

Green Tomato Salsa

This is a freezer recipe and my favorite.

26 large green tomatoes

12-24 green chili peppers or jalapenos/seeds (I cut down on this amount)

2 large onions, chopped

garlic

2 green peppers, chopped

1 cup sugar

2 Tblsp pickling salt

cilantro (2-3 bunches)

3 cups white vinegar (and 1 cup added in later)

Cut veggies and place in large stockpot. Cook veggies with 3 cups vinegar until soft and blenderize until smooth or chunky as desired.

Mix in sugar, salt, and remaining 1 cup of vinegar. Cook until reduced to fairly thick consistency, it takes a few hours or longer to cook down.

Taste to see if you need any more sugar, salt and pepper, etc.

The green tomato recipe needs to be frozen not canned.

It's delicious! Enjoy!

Cheryl 

Piccalilli Recipe

30 green tomatoes

3 lg red peppers

3 green peppers

3 onions

1-2 heads of shredded cabbage

Soak all veggies in one cup canning salt to 5 quarts of water overnight.

Drain through cheese cloth or press/squeeze water out using your hands.

Cook 3 quarts at a time mixing 1 quart cidar vinegar with 4 cups sugar,

Place 2 Tblsp mixed pickling spice in cheese cloth or old, clean panty hose knotted up.

It adds flavor and is discarded at the end. Bring to a boil and add veggies. Simmer for 30 minutes and remove spice bag.

Process in clean, boiled jars in hot water bath, 25 minutes in UT.

(makes 2 quart jars)

It is a great side dish to go with a meal, a PA tradition.

Enjoy,

Cheryl

Zucchini, zucchini, zucchini

These recipes were submitted by garden member, Cheryl

Since there is so much zucchini and tomatoes out there, I thought you might like this recipe my Mom gave to me. It's very tasty.

 

Zucchini Soup

1 lb sweet or hot Italian sausage (no casing)

2 cups celery chopped

1 lg onion chopped

2 lbs zucchini chunked (1 lg zucchini)

2 gr. peppers

2 tsp salt

1 tsp Italian seasoning

1 tsp oregano

1/2 tsp basil

fresh garlic or garlic powder

2 cans of tomatoes or several fresh garden tomatoes chopped up

Brown sausage in lg skillet with onions, celery, garlic, and peppers then add in rest of ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes.

The zucchini cooks fast so don't brown it with the meat. It is a thicker soup recipe but can be thinned down with more tomatoes.

Enjoy,

Cheryl

Zucchini Surprise

(Mock Apple Crisp)

8 Cups zucchini (remove skin and seeds, cut in chunks )

2/3 cup lemon Juice

Cook zucchini in lemon juice until tender. I cooked this in the microwave for 10 minutes or so.

Add in 1 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon ( I added more cinnamon) and cook a little longer.

Then add in 1/2 cup of crumb mixture to thicken above ingredients.

Crumb mixture:

3 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/3 cup sugar

2 sticks butter

Mix above crust with a fork or pastry blender. Pat 1/2 of crumb mixture in bottom of 9x13 pan and bake

at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove pan from oven and place zucchini mixture on top and sprinkle with

the remaining crumble. Bake for 35 minutes at 375 oven until light brown.

Enjoy,

Cheryl