Monday, November 22, 2010

Green tomatoes

One of my tomato plants died. It was the biggest one, with green tomatoes all over that I'd been eyeing for weeks, and then it was suddenly struck down with a disease (fusarium wilt, I believe).

I harvested all the green tomatoes. I'd never tried them before, but green tomatoes are tasty! We had fried green tomatoes, and on Friday (which reached 38 or 39 degrees C -- that's 100 F) we had gazpacho with red and green tomatoes. But maybe the best meal was this one: roasted green tomatoes with tempeh, based on this recipe for chicken.
Looking at the recipe now, I see that I forgot the basil. But it was delicious anyway, and I really loved the combination of the tomatoes with ginger. The tempeh worked out pretty well. I had marinated it in a sort of all purpose marinade (soy sauce/oil/lemon juice, I think). I had to add some of the marinade part way through cooking because it was starting to dry out.

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