Patti:Speaking of fruits and vegetables people aren't familiar with, what about tomatillos?
Never heard of those either. Looked them up though. I'm learning.
Thanks for the recipe Kathy.
Kris
Tomatillos make a great salsa. The one I have used most often you replace at least half of the tomatoes with tomatillos. It is so yummy. Hope you try it some time.
Vinton, Virginia
Kathy, would you send/post your recipe to the Quilters Recipes, please? I think it would be easier to find for those of us who want to make it later.
Thanks!
Gillette, WY
Judy Iliff:Kathy, would you send/post your recipe to the Quilters Recipes, please? I think it would be easier to find for those of us who want to make it later.
Judy - I have sent the recipe to QCA admin for them to post. I had forgotten about that blog.
Kathy
Calgary, Alberta
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my gramma used to grow tomatillos eons ago, she called them ground cherries. gini
gini in north idaho
Hey, has anyone had grasshoppers before? Just don't eat the legs, they have barbs. My DH and a friend once offered to eat them after some Bible study where they talked about John the Baptist and locusts and honey. They fried them and had some kind of honey dipping sauce. Everyone watched as they cautiously took a bite, then DH and friend looked at each other and "hey, these are good!" They were enjoying them so much, the others had to try them too.
DH taught our 4H kids about bugs, and as part of the education, served grass hoppers. They were burnt however, and didn't taste as good as lightly fried. I ate a quarter of a grasshopper, just so I could say I did.
Patti
Chiliwist Valley
Sorry Patti but there are some things that I am not going to eat and grasshoppers is one of them. Don't do bugs.....YUCK
gini: my gramma used to grow tomatillos eons ago, she called them ground cherries. gini
My DH talks about his grandmothr making ground cherry perserves. I had never seen the ground cherries so had no idea what they looked like. So you are saying that tomatillos are the same thing. Now I have eaten tomatillos in salsa and other mexican dishes and really like them . Never associated them with ground cherries.
nana, i'm saying my gramma called tomatillos ground cherries. she was a little bit dingy. she used them in relish, and who knows where she got the name for them. i do remember them growing in her garden. decades later, we started seeing them in the grocery stores. i'll go look up ground cherry and see if anything comes up. gini
yep, it's the same thing, go google it. it's pretty interesting. another name is cape gooseberry, and they're related to the japanese lantern.
Gini
I know you can make perserves out of regular tomatoes. So I bet you could do a perserve out of tomatillo especially since they are more tart.....kind of like a sour cherry. Humm have to do some research on that.
Nana: Gini I know you can make perserves out of regular tomatoes. So I bet you could do a perserve out of tomatillo especially since they are more tart.....kind of like a sour cherry. Humm have to do some research on that.
I don't do tomatoes or anything that has anything that looks/sounds like tomato in the name, so I've never eaten a tomatillo and I won't in this lifetime! With that being said, I did a search and found a recipe for Tomatillo Jam.
Patti:Hey, has anyone had grasshoppers before? Just don't eat the legs, they have barbs.
Patti,
I'm with Nana no bugs. Double YUCK.