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[Sheb]

Soup? Pasta sauce?

[Frumple]

More seriously, you could consider frying them. Fried green tomatoes are well loved, and I guess it doesn't make much of a difference if they're red? Don't actually know, don't eat much in the way of tomato.

No clue how to cook fried tomatoes, though. Google probably knows, ha.

[Eldin00]

So, my brother brought over tomatoes the other week. They're still good, due to not being ripe at the time. I have a drawer full of tomatoes, and no clue what to do with them. Any suggestions?

Ideas for excess tomatoes:

Homemade tomato sauce or tomato paste
Homemade ketchup
Homemade pico de gallo or salsa
Bruschetta
Chopped tomatoes for salads
Sliced tomatoes for sandwiches

If you still have any green ones:
Fried green tomatoes
Salsa verde
Green tomato relish

[Sheb]

Oh, bruschetta is really nice. I want some now...

[Eldin00]

More seriously, you could consider frying them. Fried green tomatoes are well loved, and I guess it doesn't make much of a difference if they're red? Don't actually know, don't eat much in the way of tomato.

No clue how to cook fried tomatoes, though. Google probably knows, ha.

Ripe tomatoes don't fry well. Green tomatoes are very firm, and have minimal juice, while ripe tomatoes are much softer and juicier.

[penguinofhonor]

Ripe tomatoes might get too mushy when fried, though if they're still really firm I think they'd be okay. The taste would be different but honestly it'd probably be an improvement. When I made fried green tomatoes, the partially ripe ones tasted the best.

You can also dice them up and use them in chili or sloppy joes instead of ketchup or tomato sauce. Diced tomatoes basically dissolve when cooked long enough.

Man, I might need to get some excess tomatoes.

[Eldin00]

It was easy to come up with the list because I have frequently had the benefit of excess tomatoes 

[Sheb]

Green tomato chutney is one of the best thing I've ever had. A life with a jar of green tomato chutney in the fridge is a good life.

[scrdest]

Remember, tomato sauce is the bread of sauces. Tasty on its own, but it's a good base for adding more tasty things, thereby multiplying the tastiness. Mushrooms. Olives and capers. Random veggies, as a stew.

Also, you can dry them - that way you have a ton of tomatoes that can survive for long periods.

[Eldin00]

Green tomato chutney is one of the best thing I've ever had. A life with a jar of green tomato chutney in the fridge is a good life.

Do you have a recipe? I'm curious as to how different it is from the green tomato relish I make at home (which has a flavor and consistency within the range of things I've seen called 'chutney' in the past).

[Sheb]

Not handy, I'll have to ask my dad. He made a crapton that year when the rain ruined our tomato harvest before they were ripe. My life too a turn for the delicious that day.

[Eldin00]

Sounds familiar. I do a final harvest each year the day after the first frost. Last year I ended up with 7lb (about 3kg) of green tomatoes and about half that many ripe ones, along with miscellaneous other herbs and vegetables, much of which ended up being made into different canned or frozen foods over the course of the following week.

[Arx]

I made sautéed broccoli (with a little garlic)! It's absolutely delicious - hints of caramelisation, tender but with nice texture, and a mellow (? not sure how to put it) broccoli flavour underpinning it all. It loses quite a lot of bulk, so I think it's be better with more than I did this time, but otherwise this is by far my favourite way of cooking broccoli. Alas, I have no pictures.

[crazysheep]

Is it like stirfried broccoli?

[Arx]

Probably pretty similar, or even exactly the same thing.