Fried green tomatoes...

Waking up on a rainy Saturday morning can sometimes inspire blues instead of aspirations to get in the kitchen and cook. On Saturday I was picked up by friends and ventured to the Saturday morning market. I was in a bit of a funk at first but as soon as I ran through the rain and entered the doors of the Halifax Seaport Farmers Market my cooking adventure began.

First stop was Charcuterie Ratinaud Where we picked up: Duck Fat, Duck Proscuitto(specially ordered), Toulouse Sausage (Sweet/savory sausage) and Rabbit Rillette .

This set the tone for my brunch idea.  Frederic the sole proprietor of Charcuterie Ratinaud talked through the flavour of his Toulous Sausage filling my tastebuds with inspiration. He described it as savory with hints of cinnamon, nutmeg, sage, wine... a softer sausage flavour without heat and he hinted that there may be a sweetness to it.  I don't know why but as soon as he described this taste a vision of buttermilk, green tomatoes, skillets with hot oil,homemade country gravy, and Strawberry scones came to mind.

And that was that I was off to the races. This morning for breakfast that is exactly what we made. I hope this inspires you to try out your own Fried Green Tomatoes the next morning you wake up with a bit of rainy day blues.

 Fried Green Tomatoes serving for 3-4 people. You will need: 

3 Large Green Tomatoes, 2 cups butter milk, 1 cup semolina (cornmeal), salt/pepper and 2 cups canola or vegetable oil (Or enough to shallow fry, which means they will be half covered by oil in the pan. We added some duck fat to our oil fun, flavour and good health hahah.

Take your tomatoes and cut them 1/2 inch thick. Then put them in a bowl and pour the buttermilk covering them. Let them sit for a few minutes. Pour out the cornmeal onto a plate. You are going to then take the buttermilk soaked green tomato and place it in the cornmeal. Make sure that the whole egg is covered. Then place it in your pan, fry on medium until the outside is nicely browned.

I then used the fried green tomato as a base for our poached eggs, kale and toulouse sausage gravy. 

You can eat them like this, by themselves, served instead of a starch like potato, sub in as vegetables... The world is your oyster when you have yummy green fried green tomatoes coming out hot of a skillet. 

Oh and for all of you who haven't seen Fried Green Tomatoes the movie you should make yourself up a batch of these,curl up on the next rainy day and watch it!

Eat,drink and enjoy!