All blight on the night!

[undyingking]

Bah, I had to go out and pick several pounds of green tomatoes, because our plants have developed blight. Anyone got any good recipes?

In other garden news, I harvested a load of nigella seeds as discussed here, and they look pretty much like the ones you eat, although I'm still not really sure whether the plants are sativa or damascena. Well, I guess if they are the wrong ones then they just won't taste of much. I cut the dry heads off the plants, cut all the heads in half across the middle and put them into a colander over a bowl, then shook the colander, so the seeds fell out of the breached pods and down through the colander holes into the bowl. Got a lot of small insects, mites, and other gribble in with them, so a certain amount of winnowng was required. But otherwise it was a pretty easy way of gathering spice. Recommended!

Comments

[gbsteve.livejournal.com]

My mum always used to make lots of green tomato chutney.

[mizzykitty.livejournal.com]

fried green tomatoes are just about the yummiest breakfast food evar! check out allrecipes.com for some. there are about a million variations on the same theme, so it just depends on what ingredients you have or what you have a taste for.

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

We had the same problem last year (and, alas, this year...) - I made a green tomato cake which turned out to be surprisingly delicious. Alas I can't remember where I got the recipe - maybe BBC website. Will let you know if I find it!