Fried Green Tomatoes

No, not the book and not the movie, though I enjoyed them both.  Of course, the book was better than the movie - isn't that always so?   Maybe not always, but I challenge you to name me a movie that was better than the book.... I'm waiting...

Anyway, green tomatoes.  I stopped by the small Lebanese shop the other day, hoping he had fresh cilantro, but there's always something else to catch my eye.  And this time it was green tomatoes!  I don't remember having seen them before, though that does not mean they weren't there before. The owner was careful to let me know they were unripe, green tomatoes and not ripe tomatoes that were green. Folks buy them, he said, to pickle them.  OK, you pickle; I'll fry.

Frankly, I don't recall eating fried green tomatoes as a kid (sisters are welcome to chime in here and correct me).  I do remember eating them in Atlanta at a trendy restaurant in the Highlands area.  They were good, but that's the end of my memory.

So, let's try to be Southern in Germany.

I found a recipe that looked good and got all the stuff together.  Naturally, the corn meal was US in origin because it isn't real if you don't use real ingredients!

Get ready. Slice the tomatoes.

 Wow, green they are!  And not sweet.  Really on the sour side.

Then dust with flour, dip in the egg mixture, roll around in the corn meal mixture and fry crispy brown. Aren't they pretty?

And they were very tasty.  Actually, they were perfect.  I made a sort of ranch-horseradish dip to give it a bit of tang, salad along side and that was enough. Southern style in  Germany.  Love it.