Thx guys I accualy found recipes on line to core them puree them than add spices and peppers onions hot peppers cilantro and lime juice garlic and salt gonna give it a shot all to taste
It’s good to live within a couple miles of Lake Ontario. I usually do not get a frost until mid to late October and the last two years not until the first week of November. Everything is still green and growing. The spring though, sucks. That lake keeps us ten degrees colder than people living south of ridge road.As far as ripening goes. It is actually caused by the production of a plant hormone ethylene gas. In my former working life, I taught a week long seminar on plant hormones. It was a great lecture for people with sleep problems To be short, some fruits ripen when in contact with the gas including tomatoes. A green tomato is producing minute amounts of the gas so if you wrap in newspaper, the ethylene gets trapped and hastens ripening. A better option is placing green tomatoes in a paper bag with ripe apples ( bananas would work too but would get too soft). Apples produce a lot of ethylene. You ever wonder why tomatoes are tasteless in the stores in winter. They are picked green and kept in warehouses that pump an ethylene prohibitory in. Just before shipped, they pump ethylene gas in. That doesn’t work too well for tomatoes but it does for other fruit. Anyone fall asleep yet? If not, I can discuss hydrogen ion pumps and the cell wall structure of tomatoes. That really killed my students
I will tell you all something that surprised me this morning. On Friday the 18th i covered my green tomatoes with a big blue tarp . Lows down to 26* one night and the rest in the 30's every night.. Not having time to uncover water and recover them every day they stayed that way.. Pulled the tarps off this morning and more than half are nice and ripe.. Kind of like the paper bag. Temps look good for a while so i have another few weeks.....
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