The Green Blog Project: As I am more a books person and not a great aficionado gardener, I tend to spend less time in the garden and more time admiring my hubby’s tough grind in the front and back gardens and I think its time to crown him THE Gardenaholic of the year!! He loves to spend all his time gardening and believe me, can work off his weekends just toiling in the garden and the most amazing part is you can see his face gleaming at the end of the day, he loves to change the layouts, angles, pavements, ponds, sheds n lawns to utter perfection.

This weekend when we had some friends over, they were surprised to see an entire different look in the backyard which he did in couple of months.

He does get some help from my 6 year old who at the end of the day comes inside and says “dad helped me to do all that mom” When we bought this house so many years back, it was perfect for us in everyway. The House and The garden were amazing in every aspect except for the fish ponds, not childfriendly at all.

Noel being a boystrous boy wanted place to playfootball so Rocky had plenty in his hands and started this amazing garden project with drilling, hammering and what not to the huge concrete pond and turned that area into luscious lawn, grown from seeds!!!

I have seen passionate people around me but never as passionate as my hubby who loves to spend all this spare time in the garden. I simply adore his meticulous timing, his energy levels and most importantly helping me in every way he can even inside the house as well.

Coming back to my tomato plants, Before I went on my holiday Rocky helped me to plant my tomato plants from my trays on the ground and zoomed off, When we were back, there they were absolutely amazing sight, these lovely tomatoes still green on all of plants with an amazing colour

!! What a sight it was, my veggie patch!! I love picking veggies and like to grow my own veggies and few flowering plants but but would love to work when it suits me and not them.

I think thats the main drawback, tomatoes are easy to grow and so i try to toil a month and no more and here we are with those amazing tomatoes!!

may be I should start spending more time and have time to pursue that passion of picking my own veggie from the garden. May be sometime very soon, I might have my own organic garden.. Till then, i will grow only tomatoes!!! tomatoes!! tomatoes!!

When I was waiting for those tomatoes to ripen so that I can make some amazing dishes with it, Bee and Viji gave me few suggestions about using green tomatoes in many many recipes.

I knew just green tomato chutney and nothing else to do anything with those.

Thanks Viji and Bee, I made some amazing simple dishes for guests tonight and they all were very impressed !!!

Green Tomato Chutney:

Green tomatoes: 6

Green chillies: 6

Jeera or cumin seeds: 2 tsp

Fry in a tablespoon of oil, these 3 above ingredients until the tomatoes loose their colour and become very soft and plumy. Grind it along with some tamarind, salt and serve with hot rice.

Dal with green tomatoes:
Pressure cook toor dal(1 cup), 4 green tomatoes, 2 green chillies, a pinch of tumeric and chilli powder.
Now take a saucepan and add 1 tea spoon each of mustard seeds, black gram dal, chana dal, cumin seeds and as soon as mustard seeds starts spluttering, add 2 sprigs of curry leaves and then add the cooked dal.
The taste was so different to the one which we make with ripen tomatoes.
We completely loved all these dishes, we had with potato fries and few extra fry ums,

A very sumptous meal indeed!!!!

My friends were all after me to post these recipes so that they can try so here we go guys a bit late though !!!

My dishes and my tomatoes are going to Deepz place as she is hosting this amazing event, Green Blog Project - Summer!!