I usually avoid Lifetime channel during primetime because alot of their "made for TV" movies are just cheesy but tonight they are airing "Fried Green Tomatoes",which is one of my favorite movies of all time!It is based on Fannie Flaggs novel,"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe".I have since lost my copy,but the book actually contained recipes in the back pages for the Southern goodies served in the cafe in the novel and movie.The plot switches back and forth between the 1930's and 1990's in Alabama and the fictional town of Whistlestop was one of the many small railroad towns that became ghost towns after the railroads heyday was over.If you have never seen this 1991 film,give it a whirl.LOL-I can actually make fried green tomatoes if anyone wants to try them,but they are LOADED with sodium and cholesterol!and try finding green tomatoes,unless you grow them yourself.That kind of cooking is good stuff but hell on your arteries!
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My Grandmother was from Savannah and she made Fried Green Tomatoes, and I have altered her recipe a bit but not much, I don't think that the sodium content is all that bad and I use olive oil to cook them in which is great for the old arteries.
Crack a couple of egg and mix some fresh cracked pepper in it.
Using a small platter I use 1/2 of yellow natural cornmeal and 1/2 of Italian Bread Crumbs.
I merely slice the tomatoes 3/4 inch thick, dredge them in the egg, then the bread crumb and cornmeal mixture. Then I place them in a hot black skillet with the bottom filled with evoo. I cood them to nice and dark brown, then put them on a platter lined with paper to absorb the grease and while their hot just sprinke a pinch of sea salt on them.
With this recipe they can't be that bad and on a hot summers day with a nice salad and some cold watermelon they make a perfect meal.
My recipe uses bacon fat for grease lol-not good
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