Fried Green Tomatoes

[MissPrissy]

I am a firm believer in as long as you practice moderation you can eat anything you want. Fry them off in olive oil. It is good for you.

 

[Tutter]

Exactly, Miss Prissy. I believe that, also.

We have used only olive oil, for cooking, for many years here. And since I have to take 2 T. a day for my heart anyway, I don't think much about trying to use too little for an entire dinner.

Actually it makes for some interesting math for people who have tried to use no more than a T. or 2 in any given recipe.

3 of us are usually here for dinner, and I often make enough for more than one meal. If we were each to get 2 T. a day (My Dr. said, 15 yrs. ago, that he didn't care how I got it. In salad dressing, in taco meat, or straight from a spoon, just as long as I did.), and I made food for 2 meals, that would mean cooking with 12 Tablespoons!

I don't measure, or put more than needed, but I use what it takes to make a good meal, and don't worry about it.

2 things to make it more family friendly are:

Buy the large cans....101 oz., or something like that. Star and Bertolli come in the can.

And, have both "green" oil...the extra virgin will taste deliciously (Is that a word?) like olives, and also "yellow." The yellow oil doesn't smell or taste olivey, so is good for baking, and frying, since it can cook at a higher temperature.

The comments that I had originally were about foods tasting "off", or not cooking correctly, especially baked goods. The yellow oil solved both problems, and I've not heard a complaint since.

In fact, my nephew swore he'd not eat a cake baked with olive oil. Little did he know that he already had! (I didn't leave him in the dark.)

It's all fat, 1 on 1. If a recipe calls for 1/2 cup of shortening, you use 1/2 cup of oil in it's place.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I cover mine in cornmeal, salt and pepper to taste...fry in good old heart stopping bacon grease...drain on paper towels, cool and make a Fried Green Tomato sandwich with Mayo!!. ..Great granda ma lived to be 98 following this recipe!!...

 

[MissPrissy]

I'll be over for lunch when you are making those sandwiches, TOH!

 

[EllyMae]

You guys got me so hungry for FGT, that I went to the farmers market this morning and BEHOLD, they had bushel baskets of green tomatoes! Guess you know what I'm makin' tonight!

 

[Tutter]

That's great! How were they?

 

[sred98]

I love fried green tomatoes, and discovered that I could plant a green variety like Green Zebra and they have a nice zip to them and supply green tomatoes almost til frost! We grow a lot of heirloom veggies, and I thought I would pass this on. We eat so many tomatoes in the summer, especially the boys, that I had to find another way of getting some more green ones. These work really well.

Shelly

 

[ozark hen]

thanks for sharing that info on green tomatoes, I am going to look for them for sure now.