simple pleasure Saturdays 04 Aug 2007 05:41 pm
Saturday Simple pleasure….
Fried Green Tomatoes.
The kids were watching the movie of the same name (one of my favorites), and we have plenty of green tomatoes in the garden, so it became rather obvious what to have for dinner tonight!
Fried Green Tomatoes:
Slice them thick; nearly 1/2 inch. Cut at least two large ones.
In a bowl, mix 2 eggs and about 1 cup of buttermilk and soak the tomato slices.
In another bowl mix 1 c. flour, 1 c. cornmeal or grits, salt and pepper, and a pinch of baking powder.
With a fork, lift the tomatoes out of the egg mix and dip into the flour, getting a thick coating on both sides and the edges.
Fry in half bacon grease, half olive oil until golden on both sides (flip half way).
We like them just with a little more salt; David sprinkles his with hot sauce, and once in Atlanta, we had them topped in a red pepper sauce and covered in melted goat cheese. Deee Vine, I tell ya.
What’s your Saturday Simple pleasure?
on 05 Aug 2007 at 3:30 pm 1.Amber said …
Last night for dinner a friend ordered a fried green tomato dish at a restaurant in Asheville that was cleverly put together and very tasty. The chef used the fried green tomatoes as layers in a napoleon with crab cakes in between. So from bottom to top: bed of arugula, fried green tomato, crab cake, fried green tomato, crab cake, blackberry sauce. So yummy.
on 05 Aug 2007 at 3:44 pm 2.Tia said …
Blackberry! Wow! That’s a combo I would not have thought of but they ripen at a similar time and I have found some surprising things compliment one another by virtue of the fact that they are growing/ripening companions :-). I bet feta would be yummy on this….
Fried Green tomatoes also make a great sandwich, “po boy” style, especially paired with fried shrimp.
Now I’m hungry again…
on 05 Aug 2007 at 6:39 pm 3.Mark said …
Mmmmmmmm … I’m hungry too now.
Fried green tomato sandwich with spicy crayfish and a remuloude (sp?).
Okay, fried green tomato anything, really.
And you really need to have that bacon grease in the oil. Makes all the difference.
on 05 Aug 2007 at 10:39 pm 4.Angela123 said …
I’ve had fried green tomatoes served with a sauce made of strawberry jam and carmalized onions. It sounds like a very odd combination, but it was very delicious!
on 06 Aug 2007 at 3:26 am 5.Mark said …
Tia:
Off topic, sorry for that. Didn’t see an email address for you anywhere.
Here is a link to a post (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/016227.php) on Talking Points Memo (a political blog I read regularly) that has a great clip of Ron Paul at the recent debates. Andrew Sullivan (http://www.andrewsullivan.com) is also talking about Dr. Paul with great regularity.
Seems that there is some momentum building for your man!