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- From: "Shawnee Flowerfarmer" <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
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- Subject: [Market-farming] cisneros tomatillos
- Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:26:14 -0500
What to charge for Cisneros tomatillos? Depends, always, on your markets. In Northern Illinois...$3 a quart box ...or better, packaged with an ounce of oregano, a smallish bunch of cilantro, small onion, garlic bulb/cloves, one jalapeno, with the recipe for Salsa Verde....5 dollars, but I'll take 4.50 or 4.00 since you're such a good customer and so on. Here, convenience packaging sells well.
A batch of Salsa Verde and corn chips set out for tasting usually makes the salsa kit sell quickly. Including recipes for using the salsa verde as a cooking sauce with chicken, ground beef, shredded pork, TVP, beans, for tacos or enchiladas or as a base for green chili seems to open the minds and pocketbooks of customers. It's all in the marketing once the growing is done.......
Also....should you get stuck with a lot of tomatillos....blanch, puree, freeze and console yourself during the winter with the basis for lots of good cooking. Try again next season.....
also again...do allow a few tomatillos to ripen to yellow......quite an amazingly delicious fruity taste...let your customers have a sample, too. It's easy to see their family relationship to the humble ground cherry.
Shawnee, zone 5 until the Feds release the new zone map this year.
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- [Market-farming] cisneros tomatillos, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 07/07/2007
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