Green Tomatoes

Is your tomato patch overly prolific? Or are your taomatoes taking so long to ripen you just can't wait any longer? That's OK, eat them green!

Green tomatoes have long been a staple of the cuisine of the Southern Untied States -- they were even immortaliszed in Fannie Flagg's humorous book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café and the movie it inspired. But with a little imaginationgreen tomatoes can be adapted to all kinds of recipes -- think spicy Indian chutneys or exotic Mexican salsas.

Here are a few of our favorite Green Tomato recipes to get your imagination running.

Green Tomato Recipes

• Traditional Fried Green Tomatoes
• Mollie Katzen's Fried Green Tomatoes
• Mollie Katzen's Fried Green Tomato Pillows
• Green Tomato Pie
• Chilled Curried Green Tomato Soup
• Green Tomatoes with Goat Cheese

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