Someone mentioned fried green tomaties eariler this week. I don't cook them much as I don't think they are really worth the mess. But when I do, I just dip the slices in a slightly beaten egg and dredge them in either cornmeal or a hush puppy mix like Zatarains. The hush puppy mix seems to brown better. Some people fry them in bacon fat. Tastes good for sure, but too much cholesterol. I deep fry them in a low saturated fat oil until they are a nice golden brown. I serve them in a biscuit sandwich with a little sweet onion.
Some restaurants are now making fried green tomato BLTs. They use the fried green tomato slices, bacon, sweet onion, and some feta or bleu cheese. They are pretty good, actually.
Edited to add: Salt and pepper to taste, but if you use hush puppy mix to bread them you won't really need to.
Love them.
I also love fried ripe tomatoes...I just heat up some olive oil, cut up some tomatoes, and throw them in. Even better if I sprinkle them with parmesan.
typically I like them with breakfast...italian bread, an egg, some Italian sausage...yum. IN FACT what I USUALLY do is slice a chunk of italian or french bread, take out the middle, drop into a pan greased with olive oil, and drop an egg into the middle. Serve with Italian sausage links (I slice them) or with kielbasa and the fried tomatoes. Yum. Go crazy and slap some mozzerella on top of the egg after you flip the bread.