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I couldn't resist whipping up some fried green tomatoes for yall!
Also, congrats to the winners of this weeks Activity of the Week Challenge, Tina Butler and Jackie Ter Louw!
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well a green tomato is an unright tomato
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and I'm going to cook these just like we
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cook them at the lady and Suns in fact
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people will tell you the best fried
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green tomato they've ever had in the
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world is at the lady and Suns and I have
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to say that I
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agree so my challenge this week for
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y'all is green Tomatoes if you're like
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our cameraman here he said a while ago
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what is a green tomato Paula he thought
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it was just the title of a movie well a
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green tomato is an unrip tomato instead
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of waiting for them to ripen on the vine
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you just pick them while they're still
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green and they need to be hard now to me
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the best way to eat a green tomato is
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fried so I'm going to fry mine just like
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we cook them at the lady and Suns the
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other way we love them is green tomato
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pickles those are wonderful a great
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sweet pickle now I'm going to slice my
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tomatoes and I'm going to cut off that
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tip and I'm using a serrated knife just
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because I feel that that's going to work
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better for me some people like them
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paper thin some people like them a
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little thicker I'm going to make these
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almost kind of like medium size this
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tomato is hard as a brick bag now a
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green tomato holds a lot of of water
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y'all we're going to Salt them and we're
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going to let them drain just for a few
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minutes and the salt will pull out that
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excess water because the water will tend
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to make them
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mushy and I'm going to Salt both
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sides so I'm going to show you the
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relish that we serve the green tomatoes
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with at the restaurant you can use any
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kind of onion but the Via onion is so
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delicious on this because the Via is
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naturally a sweet onion and like I said
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I'm going to use one onion and I'm going
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to dice it up pretty good all right so
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in the bowl that goes and that looks to
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be about a cup of onions and that was
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really only half an onion I'm probably
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going to put about two tablespoons of a
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rice wine
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vinegar and then I'm going to put that
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much
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mayonnaise okay and I'm going to use
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about a
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tablespoon of brown sugar all right so
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I've mixed our dressing up y'all and
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this is one of those things we probably
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don't have a precise recipe for it but I
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would say I used about a half a cup of
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mayonnaise a tablespoon of rice wine
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vinegar and about a tablespoon of brown
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sugar I think that's pretty good gauge
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but this should be almost just like
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straight onion and then you just take
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your fork in dabble it on each one all
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right so our tomatoes have drained I'm
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going to be getting up my other
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ingredients I'm going to need
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self-rising flour and I'm going to need
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some
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buttermilk and I'm frying these on
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325 I'm frying this in peanut oil y'all
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but gives the food wonderful flavors and
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it also has the highest resistance to
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burning look at that beautiful crust
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that's starting to form on those
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tomatoes so we're going to fry those
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until they're golden brown I'm going to
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take my fork and Fork these just kind of
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flip them over cuz they'll get top heavy
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on one side we're going to fry them
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until they're nice and golden brown
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probably 3 or 4 minutes not not a great
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deal of time and too that depends on now
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remember how thick you cut just made
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them these are
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perfect I'm going to let these drain and
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then I'm just going to put them out some
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paper towels to absorb that grease and
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now I'm going to find me a dish toer me
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something I think they'll be beautiful
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just on a white plate with the Relish in
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the center the Simplicity of this plate
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is just
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beautiful yum and now for one last thing
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I'm just going to chop us up a little
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ches for color and I'm going to throw
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them on top of that relish and y'all are
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in for a treat looks pretty good doesn't
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it all right so y'all this is Greg he's
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a California boy he was the one that
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said now what is a green tomato so I
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want Greg to be one of the first ones
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and Greg you're going to have to be
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careful they're hot yes they're hot did
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you not see me frying
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them by day your relish will cool them
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off
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some so what do you think
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delicious you
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Sur the relish is really sweet it's a
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good
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Christmas I like it we can serve these
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in La people will love them when they
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get here they will step on your back
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honey to get in the door with that lady
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and Son cuz they so damn sick of tofu
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and lettuce they can't hard stand it if
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y'all can do something that's really
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really good with a green tomato please
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contact me cuz I want to hear all about
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it cuz the only thing two things I
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know is pickles and frying
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them we'll see y'all
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later bye eat up
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