When it comes to a lot of things I'm a very, very simple person. While some people are still dressing their hamburger, I've eaten half of mine.
Fried Green Tomatoes is another simple thing. No egg wash for me. Just as well since egg prices have sky rocketed again. They are around 4$/dozen here. I'm not paying that.
Fall was the time of year we usually ate green tomatoes when I raised a garden. We rarely had them in the spring, because we were patiently but anxiously waiting for them to become red or maybe yellow. However, come fall, we'd watch the weather closely and pick them the day before the first frost. So now at my age, I start craving a tart, tangy fried green tomato.
This is how my Depression Era raised Mother
made them. I guess you can say I'm still doing a lot of things my grand
mother and probably great grand mother did. Why change it if it works?
These are delicious to me. All you need is plain cornmeal.
After a good wash
slice them about quarter inch (cm) thick.
Salt them a tiny bit to start bringing out more juices.
Be patient, wait a bit.....go fix some iced tea?
Lay them in PLAIN cornmeal....no Jiffy stuff.
Press each one a bit with the back of a fork.
Wait a bit. ......get the ice tea glasses fill with ice?
Turn over the slices, and press again.
Wait a bit. ....Heat the oil just covering the bottom of the frying pan.
and fry these on medium or lower heat
until they turn a bit soft and golden brown.
You don't want burnt or hard raw tomatoes.
I enjoy these tart, tangy bites with beans and mashed potatoes.
Around here, many restaurants are using a slice of them on hamburgers.
I gotta say, for some reason,
those made during the summer just aren't as tangy.
Maybe they need to be picked as green as possible?
Mine were given to me by a friend in church.
I never find them for sale in the grocery.
I know nothing about the tomatillo.
I wonder if they would fry up and taste the same?
A few years back,
my friend shared how she canned green tomatoes
so she could enjoy FGT
throughout the winter.
Ok I HAVE to try these at the end of our summer - I've seen the movie of course, but never actually made any!!! Remind me around March next year please!!! Thanks so much for joining in on Monday This and That! I hope you're having a great week! xx
ReplyDeleteI have been ripening the last of my tomatoes on the window still over the last few weeks but a few have stayed stubbornly green. Now I know what I'm going to do with them, thanks :-)
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