Even the smallest garden — as in a few pots on a sunny windowsill — has a cherry tomato plant. They don’t ask for much and they give a lot. These bite-sized sweet tomatoes are the first to ripen and ...

Combine onions, cabbage, green tomatoes, green and red bell peppers and salt; cover and let stand overnight. In the morning, drain well. Put vegetables in a large kettle; add sugar, vinegar, water, ...

To prepare tomatoes: Cut tomatoes crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices, discarding narrow slice from each end. In large bowl, stir pickling lime into water. Add tomatoes. Soak in limewater at room ...

Blame it on Fannie Flagg. The author’s 1987 novel “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe” and the subsequent movie version meant most of us will only think of green tomatoes as a thing you ...

I remember standing in the kitchen with my mum, lining up jars of pickles on the table, ready to be sealed and carried ...

I have a waste-not-want-not approach to pretty much everything in life. Lemon peels get tossed in a jar to infuse into limoncello, worn bed sheets are ripped into rags, and nothing thrills me more ...

From the 1939 "Good Cooking" (by Marjorie Heseltine and Ula M. Dow), with directions here to update it by Lake Douglas. He made only half of it and put the spices in whole, which updates it and gives ...

The fall rains have come, and that's prompted home gardeners like Slog reader Luckier to wonder what to do with all their tomatoes: Goldy, when are you going to start a weekly gardening column?

This type of green tomato is indeed a tomato that has been harvested before fully ripening. As a result, unripe green tomatoes are generally pretty firm, not very juicy, and have a tart flavor.

As the temperatures climb past Arctic levels and the birds spend sixteen hours a day loudly heralding the arrival of Doin’ It Season, the brief and glorious highlight of my year—tomato season—seems ...