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Posted: Oct/04/2008 7:10 AM PST
You guys eat fried green tomatoes? They are my #1 favorite summer food! Pretty soon we'll be taking down the last tomato plants and have all those little green sour tomatoes. I know people who coat them with cornmeal and all kinds of stuff. My mom always dips them in plain flour and that's how I like them best - although I give them a quick dip in milk and use self risisng flour. It makes a slightly thicker coating so it gets light and crisp. Plenty of salt, a grind of pepper, I slice them thin and let them get very brown and crisp. HEAVEN!!! Normally that's all I do to them. Line a platter with paper toweles, try to let them cool at least a little, and eat them with my fingers. BUT this summer I tried something a little different. Green tomato BCT Fried green tomato slices Bacon strips Cheddar cheese (sharp!) Thick bread of your choice Butter Put it all on there and toast it like a grilled cheese! In the soup thread we've been talking about balancing flavors and textures, and you've got it all here - crispy and crunchy and gooey, tangy and salty and creamy. Maybe not the healthiest recipe I've come up with but you might as well enjoy those last tomatoes to the fullest! |
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Posted: Oct/04/2008 8:42 AM PST
Aimee!!! Sssssttttoppppppp ......... you're killin' me! Our greenies are already gone for the season. I adore FGT but Mark won't eat them ~ more for me! I make mine pretty much the same as you except I "marinate" the slices in buttermilk (or ranch dressing works too) before coating and frying ~ yumO. |
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Posted: Oct/04/2008 7:20 PM PST
I usually pick all my green tomatoes off before a frost and wrap each in a piece of newspaper, place them in a box, cover with top and set them in a closet in one of the back bedrooms. I don't heat the bedroom since no one sleeps in there anyway. Check on them a couple times a week and take out the ones that are ripe or are turning. We had tomatoes until the middle of Jan. last year. I had to give some away because they ripened faster than we could eat them. I found that the more paper I used to wrap them the faster they ripened. So I'm not going to wrap them so heavy this year. |
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Posted: Oct/04/2008 8:10 PM PST
Maggie - LOL if you have so many you can't eat them quick enough, then you should reduce the problem by frying some green! Keewee - I'm going out right now to buy buttermilk. |
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Posted: Oct/05/2008 7:39 PM PST
[quote=aimee]Maggie - LOL if you have so many you can't eat them quick enough, then you should reduce the problem by frying some green! Oh I do fry them and my son and his family live next door and they love them fried to, but you know there is just so many a person can eat. I'm kinda burned out on them now. Someone told me how to save them and my husband plants tomatoe slip everywhere he finds a spot for them. I tell him not to but he doesn't listen. He says it gives him something to do. He plants the last ones around the last of July. |
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Posted: Oct/06/2008 6:31 AM PST
We like them green more than red, so my mom fries a bunch, drains them really well, and freezes them on a cookie sheet. When they're frozen she stacks them in a ziplock bag with wax paper between the layers and gets them out to reheat when she wants green tomatoes in the winter! |
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Posted: Nov/14/2008 4:29 PM PST
Well, we had one night cold enough to kill all the plants, so I'm bringing in the last of the green tomatoes. Tonight for dinner I'm having a huge plate of them, and a pile of radishes that were in the ground five minutes ago. Mmmmmmm!! |
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Posted: May/06/2009 5:30 AM PST
I've found that I like pink tomatoes the best. When they are done being green and just starting to turn red.They are a bit sweeter than just going with the green ones. I use cornmeal with italian seasoning mixed in to make my fried tomatoes. |
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Posted: May/11/2009 7:32 AM PST
Fried Green Tomatoes are my all time favorites! I tried cornmeal, flour and I like the double dipping of the flour and of course the buttermilk. YUMMO! |
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Posted: May/26/2009 11:16 AM PST
We love Fried Green Tomatoes and now our local Wal-mart sells them frozen and covered in cornmeal ready to fry. They aren't as good a the fresh ones, but will do in a pinch. My sister cooks her by slicing them or sometimes cutting them in chunks with onion slices and she then cooks them down with butter. You know how some people cook squash. They usually have a stronger flavor than frying them the other way. They are okay, but I like them better the other way. I have also seen people deep fry them. I have tried this and it is easier and cleaner than using a skillet. They are good no matter how you cook them! |
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