Simple Fried Green Tomatoes

[donna]

We were in Atlanta for 4 days this past week. Ate at several great restaurants. One vegetable on the menu was Fried Green Tomatoes.

This is a simple recipe but they are so tasty.

Slice the tomatoes and lay in salt water a half hour. Drain and roll in cornmeal, and fry in hot lard; salt and pepper to fit your taste.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

We were in Atlanta for 4 days this past week. Ate at several great restaurants. One vegetable on the menu was Fried Green Tomatoes.

This is a simple recipe but they are so tasty.

Slice the tomatoes and lay in salt water a half hour. Drain and roll in cornmeal, and fry in hot lard; salt and pepper to fit your taste.

Simple is often times best! I have to say, while lard may not be the healthiest choice around, it is by far the best tasting! You can really tell the difference when you fry chicken or other fried veggies in lard compared to other bases like canola oil or even Crisco.

 

[nitrofd]

Simple is often times best! I have to say, while lard may not be the healthiest choice around, it is by far the best tasting! You can really tell the difference when you fry chicken or other fried veggies in lard compared to other bases like canola oil or even Crisco.

Fried green tomatoes is a classic southern favorite and can be found everywhere in the south.

 

[amweiner]

I'm drooling on my keyboard. Those look (and forgive the phrase) slap-yer-momma good!

 

[Blessmag]

Secret's in the sauce!

 

[JohnW.]

OMG!!!.....to die for

 

[donna]

One of our favorite dishes.

 

[AnnaLee]

Sorry, but I don't like fried green tomatoes. My dad and mother raised a large garden every summer and made them all the time when I was growing up. They tried to get me to eat them but the taste just didn't set well with me.

 

[diane]

They make an interesting sandwich - slices of fried green tomato, bacon, lettuce - nice! If you feel especially daring, you can add pimento cheese to it. That's good!

 

[Gene Green]

Fried green tomatoes are originally a northern/midwestern dish. Robert Moss wrote a book about the fried green tomato swindle.

According to Robert F. Moss, author of The Fried Green Tomato Swindle and Other Southern Culinary Adventures, fried green tomatoes first appear in 19th century Northeastern and Midwestern cookbooks such as the 1877 Buckeye Cookbookand the 1873 Presbyterian Cookbook, which was put out by the First Presbyterian Church of Dayton, OH. Recipes can also be found in Jewish cookbooks from the early 20th century: The 1919 International Jewish Cookbook by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum contained "1600 recipes according to the Jewish dietary laws with the rules for kashering," from "America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc.," and was published in New York. The only Southern mention of the recipe that Moss could dig up was from a 1944 Alabama newspaper, which printed a recipe as part of an article mocking the USDA's dietary recommendations during wartime.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Fried_Green_Tomato_Swindle_and_Other.html?id=iR9LED-AsxgC

https://www.bonappetit.com/entertai...icle/whats-the-deal-with-fried-green-tomatoes

PS. I have eaten at the whistle stop in irondale al. but didn't have green tomatoes. Big juicy red orange ones I eat like an apple. Sweet onions too. I used to love sliced onion sandwiches.

 

[Ole Miss]

Fried Green 'Matters!!!! Truly the food of the South!!!!!
Regards
David

 

[diane]

Green tomato relish is just about as good as pickle relish - great on hot dogs. I don't know where either dish came from - I just know they're both delicious. Farmers are thrifty, though, and would find a way to eat all those green tomatoes going to waste!

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Great grandmother must have picked these up when living for quite a few years in Arkansas. My mother lived with her grandparents as a little girl, so tended to cook these dishes, too. Had no clue it was traditionally southern- makes more sense than Nova Scotia Scot.

Must admit a fellow feeling with @AnnaLee . To be fair, any cooked vegetable and I do not rub elbows well. Parents were unimpressed by arguments about killing innocent vegetables.

 

[donna]

Anther recipe for Fried Tomatoes. This from "The Original Country Cookbook".
4 tomatoes
3 tbsp. hot fat and butter
2 tbsp brown sugar
flour
1/2 cup milk
salt and pepper.

Cut ripe tomatoes in 1/2 inch slices. Dredge with flour. Fry in hot butter or drippings, brown on both sides. Remove. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and brown sugar. Add butter to pan and blend in flour. Add the milk and cook. Pour over tomatoes and serve.

This different than many fried tomatoes but very tasty.