Tomatoes Coming to an End

[Zigs]

Cleared the small polytunnel out and got it ready for overwintering stuff

 

[Anniekay]

Cleared the small polytunnel out and got it ready for overwintering stuff

You know, Zigs, you could make fried green tomatoes from those green ones. They're absolutely deliscious !!
www.southernliving.com/recipes/fried-green

 

[Zigs]

You know, Zigs, you could make fried green tomatoes from those green ones. They're absolutely deliscious !!
www.southernliving.com/recipes/fried-green

I thought they were poisonous

 

[skinyea]

FGT are damn good. lightly fried

 

[Zigs]

Green tomatoes contain toxic compounds, but they are generally safe to eat in small quantities:

• Solanine: A natural poison found in all solanaceous crops, like potatoes. Solanine poisoning can cause stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting, drowsiness, and lethargy. A lethal dose is around 0.014 ounces.
  
  
  
• Tomatine: Another toxic compound found in green tomatoes.
  
  
  
• Atropine: Another compound found in green tomatoes.

I've had solanine poisoning before, it hurts like hell even if you take less than 0.014 ounces

 

[Tetters]

Anyway, one whole box full of nice red/gold tomatoes now sit in the kitchen waiting for me to make puree out of them for quite a few more homemade pizzas. I daresay the second box will follow soon - they are in the tunnel waiting for the sun to come through again

 

[Zigs]

Yesterday's box



Soon be more

 

[Anniekay]

I must be immune or built up a tolerance for green tomato poison. Never had a reaction

 

[Zigs]

I must be immune or built up a tolerance for green tomato poison. Never had a reaction

I ignored my own advice and cut a small green bit off of a huge potato It's not the green bit that's the problem, that's just chlorophyl. When the potato is exposed to sunlight it reacts by producing solanine throughout the tuber.

The condemned man ate a hearty meal and then spent the rest of the day on the bog clutching his stomach

 

[Tetters]

The condemned man ate a hearty meal and then spent the rest of the day on the bog clutching his stomach

Some people are just so, um, ....................frail

 

[Zigs]

Herbert the gardener is still sorting them out

 

[Dirtmechanic]

I thought they were poisonous

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Only to Europeans as far as I can tell. Why one would want to eat one probably lies in the bacon fat it is fried in, with or without seasoning or cornmealed batters. Same for eggplant except the Italians saved those dark beauties for me with their recipes. Ever watch Pasta Grammar on Yourube? Great show. Lotsa eggplant.

 

[Zigs]

Only to Europeans as far as I can tell. Why one would want to eat one probably lies in the bacon fat it is fried in, with or without seasoning or cornmealed batters. Same for eggplant except the Italians saved those dark beauties for me with their recipes. Ever watch Pasta Grammar on Yourube? Great show. Lotsa eggplant.

This may be true, we can't eat Bagels either

 

[Anniekay]

This may be true, we can't eat Bagels either

What? No bagels in the UK?
That there is blasphemy !!

 

[Zigs]

What? No bagels in the UK?
That there is blasphemy !!

We have Bagels, just can't eat them.
Tried one once and had to spit it straight out

 

[Anniekay]

We have Bagels, just can't eat them.
Tried one once and had to spit it straight out

Did you toast it and slather on a hunk of cream cheese?

 

[Zigs]

Did you toast it and slather on a hunk of cream cheese?

Not after I spat it out