Finishing up my salsa verde

[hoodat]

I got a nice crop of tomatillos this year so I have been cooking up some salsa verde. It's about cooked down now and ready for canning tomorrow.

 

[StupidBird]

Congrats! I had total crop failure this year and will be hoarding and hiding the last jar of 2012. This stuff is so good. How large of a batch do you cook at a time? What variety are you growing?

 

[digitS']

DW wants me to order tomatillo seed for next year. I know next to nothing about them!

The only thing I remember is reading what another gardener thought about seed-starting. She said that the best way is to keep volunteers. Difficulty germinating seed? Difficulty transplanting?



Saving tomato volunteers is almost a fruitless effort for me. Oh, they have fruit but they don't usually have enuf time to ripen it :/. So, I recognize the word "verde" -- are these unripe, green and early enuf for me??

Steve

 

[bobm]

I am sending a Christmas list to Santa ( ie. Hoodat) for some of that salsa verde . P.S. I have been a good boy all year !

 

[Collector]

We had a pretty good crop of them this year also, Most of them we unwrapped and ate right in the garden lol.This is our second year growing them, we have had good crops so far, just need to see more make it into the house for salsa.

 

[NwMtGardener]

Steve, i dont think you'd have any problem growing them and getting a good crop. I grew one a few years ago. I wasnt that impressed with eating them, and couldnt really think what do to with them. Why in the heck did i not make salsa verde?? I have no idea. The next year i had a volunteer, and it also produced copious amounts of fruit. I think one or two plants would be plenty for most families!!

 

[digitS']

. . . Why in the heck did i not make salsa verde?? I have no idea. The next year i had a volunteer, and it also produced copious amounts of fruit. I think one or two plants would be plenty for most families!!

Yours and Collectors success sounds good to me . You know, we are creatures of habit and our eating habits are a part of that. It isn't easy to change or even think about doing something different.

We eat home-made salsa quite a lot. It is real simple but doesn't use tomatillos. Always about the same: cherry tomatoes under the toaster oven broiler. Green onion in there with cilantro going in last - just enuf to wilt. Then, into the mortar and mashed with some dried hot pepper and salt. Frozen cherry tomatoes or fresh hot peppers would be a little different but as simple as that. It took 20 years of making gazpacho and buying salsa at the store . . !!

Okay. Tomatillos in place of some or all of the cherry tomatoes.

Steve

 

[dickiebird]

Well isn't this special....I just picked my first Tomatillo this evening but it didn't taste very good to me!!!!
How big should a Tomatillo be before picking? and is all you do is peel the thin skin and eat?

THANX RICH

 

[NwMtGardener]

I thought they were sour, raw. I eventually started waiting until the actual skin color was more...yellowish, than green. You can tell the color if the paper husk is torn, or you poke into it still on the vine. They tasted a little better that way, but i still didnt like them too much. I dont think i ever peeled the green skin off, just the paper husk.

 

[Collector]

We pick them when the outer husk starts to turn yellow and dry out. We like them raw they sorta have a fruity taste I think. We plant 4 plants around a tee post for support and that gives us good supply of tomatillos. I think they are well worth growing, you don't need a whole lotta space and they produce well without needing much maintenance...