Comments on: Now Serving Scrumptious Green Tomato Blight Soup?

By: EcoLinking - 7 August 2007 at EcoStreet - Raising Green Consciousness since 2002

EcoLinking - 7 August 2007 at EcoStreet - Raising Green Consciousness since 2002 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:48:40 +0000

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:48:59 +0000

My understanding is that parts of fruits and vegetables that are obviously bruised, rotten or moldy should not be eaten, because they can contain carcinogens. Also for potatoes you should never eat sprouts or green parts of the potato, because they can be poisonous. Otherwise, as long as you can completely cut away the bad parts, pretty much anything goes!

Light insect damage is not normally a problem, nor are blighted fruits and tubers if you can cut away any visibly infected parts. You certainly don’t want to eat any obviously rotten potatoes or tomatoes. The problem with late blight is that rotting usually starts pretty quickly and spreads fast. Early blight is less of a problem.

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:16:12 +0000

Well, green tomato soup is much the same as red tomato soup! Only difference is that the green ones don’t have the luscious taste, so I throw in a very good slug of red wine vinegar and a good handful of puy lentils together with some chopped ham and it tastes pretty good.
Peach sorbet sounds fantastic.

By: Kenny Point

Kenny Point — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:23:31 +0000

Steven, I don’t worry much over blemishes or cosmetic imperfections on my fruits and veggies either.

Jonathan, my ugliest tomato was one that I didn’t bother taking a photo of… it was a huge green heirloom tomato just beginning to ripen that was mangled and left half eaten lying on the ground by a visiting woodchuck.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:21:38 +0000

Green tomato soup? Hmm, sounds interesting. I’m an administrator over at the “The Tasty Tomato” blog and we’re currently holding a contest for home gardeners who want to send us pictures of their ugly tomatoes. We also occasionally post growing tips and recipes. Check us out at: http://www.santasweets.blogspot.com

By: steven

steven — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:53:00 +0000

I try to salvage what’s usable in the garden. My peaches were hit by Japanese Beetles pretty badly, but not so bad that they were inedible, merely cosmetically unpleasant. My solution was to cut the bad parts away, skin them and cook the remaining good fruit into a puree with some sugar and lemon juice. I then ran the puree through a fine sieve and chilled it. After chilling I put the puree into my ice cream maker and treated myself to some excellent peach sorbet.