First post? I rock! Dude, my stomach's growling looking at those tomatoes.

You've got to love kitty yawns, and oh, yeah, fried green tomatoes too.
Just love reading your blog. Its made me an addict and a blog stalker, Oy.

What no dipping sauce? I love to dip mine in Piquant. Mayo mixed with Horseradish. Oh and Iced Tea OF COURSE.
Have a great weekend... you're doing the right thing and they will appreciate you later, after the are feeling better

Have a lovely holiday weekend! those tomatoes look amazing...

I'm on the way to the store to buy green tomatoes. HeeHee, LOVE the cat pic. Happy long weekend!

Loooovvvveee fried green tomatoes.

Every mama gets to the point you did this morning. Total frustration and the inability to see the light at the end of the tunnel make a toxic combination. But, being the good mama that you are, you buck up and carry on.

Hope you have a wonderful, relaxing Memorial Day weekend.

Maybe your kitties are scientologists and don't believe in all this medication.

Thanks for the recipe! Buttermilk works good as a sticking agent as well.

No posts?! Good thing I'll be in birthday coma this weekend... Fried green tomatoes...YUM!

Oh, man, Laurie - I don't know how you're coping with it all. I really wish I could help. You're a good mama to your kitties.

I'm starving, and the fried green tomatoes look absolutely delicious. May have to try making them sometime.

I just sent you an email about square watermelons and possible forms to use. Let me know if you didn't get it.

I’ve never actually had friend green tomatoes. I’m trying to stay away from the deep frying these days but I might have to try this just once to see what the fuss is about. Maybe I’ll fry up some eggplant a la eggplant parmesan while I’m at it, I bet they’d be good together. To Wanda!

We will miss you over the long weekend........hope you have some fun!

YUM, Thanks for the eye-food. Are they from your huge tomato bush? Nothing like picking your own fresh veggies and that feeling of accomplishment.

Hang in there with the kitties, they give you a hard time because they know you will love them no matter what. Parenting is tough (but worth it).

Have a great weekend!

Mmm...fried green tomatoes!!

Y'all are making me hungry...and I just finished second breakfast. (Hey, pregnancy gives you all kinds of excuses for food.)

I bawled when my daughter was an infant and I couldn't get her to stop crying. I just put her in the middle of our bed, where she couldn't get hurt, and lay down next to her and bawled. We both survived (she's 11) and I think we have a darn good mom-daughter relationship. So bawling while trying to medicate kitties? I can relate, and it doesn't mean you'd be a bad mom. In fact, persisting in medicating your kitties in the face of all these challenges -- I think you'd be a darn good mom. Your sense of humor would be invaluable.

Have you tried mixing their meds in chicken flavored baby food? My cats will eat anything if it's mixed with the baby food and eaten from a spoon - it's human food!

I always put mustard on my fried green tomatoes. They're just so yummy!!

Hmm...I've never had fried green tomatoes either. They sure look good, and I've heard good things about them. But can you ever really go wrong when the directions call for deep frying?

Have a great holiday weekend! And show those kitties whose boss.

I mean who is boss...bad grammar, Tami!

Oh Lord, now I've got to fry up some tomatoes and while I'm at it....okra!!! Yummy:) That is one viciously sharp fang Roy has there.

Ok, so, are they green tomatoes that are ripe or red tomatoes that are NOT ripe? I have never understood.

I love them, I'd love to *make* them, but I do not know which to buy or where, even, to find green tomatoes.

*mope*

Oh yum- those fried green tomatos are best eaten with a pitcher of sweet tea while on the porch during a hot hazy North Carolina evening.

I sympathize regarding the cats. My Milo chewed a hole in his leg and has been wearing a lampshape (e-collar) on his head for four days now, and he is pissy. Whenever he sees me coming with the antibiotic spray for the wound he pitches a fit- luckily with the lampshade on he can no longer bite me.

Hey Laurie, My cat exists in a constant state of guess what's wrong with me this month. He was (is) on all sorts of meds for the last eight (yeah, count them, eight) years. I discovered early on that for him, pills (not liquid!) were the way to go. I coat the pill in yogurt (usually plain but since kitties can't taste sweet it only matters from a weight point of view), anchor him in an overstuff chair, and place (quickly, removing fingers intact) in the back of his throat. I let him lick the yogurt spoon for a treat. My new trick is putting a pill in a hairball treat (they are soft) and then he just eats it on his own. Since he normally inhales his food without chewing, this works well. There is no chance that I would try to syringe something down his throat on my own! Good luck.

OMG!! I love me some fried green tomatoes. I use crushed up saltines w/egg then fry in butter and top with fresh parmesan!

(I think my butt just got wider writing that)

Oh Lord, those tomatoes look gorgeous. And delicious. Perhaps I can talk the future MIL into making me some this weekend...and some greens...and maybe some of those fried corn cake things...moving to the South has changed my life. Espcially the size of my ass. But my oh my, the food is out of this world.

Hope the kitties are feeling better, and that they start cooperating with you.

Hang in there Laurie!

and you say you can't cook!! thanks for the Roy pic!

What is it with you? I have never deep-fried anything in my life, and never expected to want to. You are a malign influence. Put it on your resume.

Hubbo and I are escaping for the weekend, leaving the grandparents in charge. And they get to medicate a kid AND a cat.

Thank You for the Fried Green Recipe! I have never gotten to try them before. I will eat them and drink wine in the garden this weekend....bliss courtesy of Aunt Purl.
Stop and breathe while you have some unstructured time this holiday weekend...and enjoy the perspective it allows.
I will try to take my own advise as I frantically clean the house after work for guests, and inevitable end up in that familiar position of being overwhelmed beyond capacity: collapsed & bawling (on a floor covered in pet hair no less)

LOL. I am so with you on the thank goodness they are cats and not children. Forget about the wire hangers. My neighbors would probably call CPS on me because my children would be running around wild while I was having another glass of wine and trying to ignore their antics. The ignoring part is because at this point I have realized that I could talk myself blue in the face but they are still going to do whatever it is that is so irritating. Actually this is why I go out -- to get away from the cats.

Oh, so that's how they're made. Yum.

Poor Laurie. Poor Roy and the rest of the crew. It's not a "this too shall pass" thing?

have a great weekend! crying is a good thing. i cried the last time i tried to pack a suitcase to leave my cat for the weekend b/c she was terrorizing the house and spraying near my suitcase out of anger. we are going away this weekend and joke's on rose! i am taking her to my parents tonight and coming home to pack! HA!

rest, have fun and keep your head up! it'll be okay!

ps. thanks for the tomato recipe... those do look fantastic!!

Dee-lish!!!!

Hope you have a great holiday with lots of rest!

I love the idea of a real southern green tomato recipe. Thank you. I was looking at the box of real whipped cream in the background though. Does that go with the fare?

spc -- I use it to dip the tomato slices in before breading so the breading sticks. You can use egg or buttermilk like Jenny suggested or probably even water, but who would use water when you're just going to deep-fry them anyway? heh heh

good gods, girl! it's been *forever* since I've had any FGTs (as my friend [from Georgia] and her granny called them)... looks like I'm going to have to fry some up tonight. Southern comfort food!

Hey Purl, didja see that Lay and Skilling were convicted today?

Thanks for the recipe, and I do like the idea from Stacey of using mayo and horseradish for a sauce. Mebbe I will ty it out over the weekend.

I like a good flour crust on my fried green tomatoes. Maybe a flour/cornmeal mixture. But I certainly wouldn't kick yours outta bed. ;-)

Maybe you could persuade the kitties to be more agreeable about the medicine by feeding them some of those tomatoes. They look delicious!!! But they don't really play into your claims of not cooking. ;)

Have a great break!

Kristy, I figured I needed to redeem myself.

I can see the virgin Mary in Roy's tongue...

Love your blog! I stalk you all the time! Fried Green Tomatoes are one of my favorites! Ms. LucyLu: when you're eating Fried Green Tomatoes, you're drinking "Sweet Tea" not "iced tea"! LOL It's a southern thing!

Hey woman,

I hope you are writing a book. After you get it published, there will be many, many more of us happy readers and you will be rich. Then you can pay someone to medicate the kitties and they won't blame you for torturing them.

Aww...as a mom of a 20 month old...I cry! YEP, I cry! Especially when the tantrums just won't stop!

The tomatoes look yummy! I've never had them, being from the midwest and all, but I may have to! I developed an addiction to sweet tea while in Georgia and they look like they might be the perfect foil for it!

Have a great weekend, enjoy. We are having record setting temps here (76F). I'll be helping with my FIL just recovering from a sextuple bypass. (hee hee there's sex in there!) I think he might take his meds better than the kitties, but I am not betting on it.

Oh Drew! You are sooo right! I thought I saw La Virgen de Guadalupe in Roy's tongue! Hey Laurie, is Roy Catholic?

Anyway, what time is dinner? I'll bring the corn casserole and guacamole. You supply the fried green tomatoes and beer. Thanks for the authentic recipe!!!

Hugs!

Have a great weekend.

CAP - have you tried alternative delivery methods for the meds? Seriously! After having to do 4 pills a day, every day, for the life of my cat (including one that had to be refrigerated and given with gloved hands and not allowed to "linger on the tongue"), alternative methods were the only way to go. Please, for your own sanity, I beg of you...

OMG - I bet the bacon grease makes it soooo much better! My dad used to simmer veggies with a couple slices of bacon and it made them taste D-VINE! That's a hilarious action shot of la chat.

Have a great break! I will be camping in 90 degree weather in souther MN this weekend. Fabulous.

I know the sit in the hallway and cry very well. My god, roy is quite the drama queen...what a great pic to bribe him with later! "Remember when you...."

Enjoy your time off! Your fgt make me so flippin' hungry!!! I cannot imagine having a tomato plant as tall as you...you must have some v. good dirt =>

take care, laurie. tomorrow is another day

Maybe Roy's pitching a hissy because you're using the bacon grease on the tomatoes, rather than on the cats!

Tony's Rocks.....if you are from the South then you know what I mean!!!! I introduced Tony's to my Father-in-law and he loves it (he is from the Bay area). I can't find it here in the Central Valley, so I just have my mom in Texas ship it to me. Yep, 27 years old and still need care packages!!!

I too will be camping in 90-degree weather, but in Kansas. Hope your weekend is as enjoyable, Laurie. Hang in there.

Ranch Dressing! Seriously! It goes great with Fried Green Toemayters. Mmmm

I LOOOOOOVE me some fried green maters! I do that towards the end of every summer, when I have a whole passel of tomatoes on my plants and I know they won't all ripen before the first frost...I live considerably more northerly than where I grew up, obviously...how lucky you are to have green tomatoes in May!!

Your Roy looks so fierce. :) Have a good weekend!

Also, LOL at the Crochet Dude, who sees the Virgin Mary in Roy's tongue. :)

i LOVE fried green tomatoes. after the movie came out i searched for recipies.
there was a canadian magazine that had a recipe a few years back that called for brushing the tomatoes with mayo before dredging (sp?) in cornmeal/flour mix...sooooo good.

You need some shrimp remoulade to go on top of those tomatoes. And better than salt and pepper is Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning. Oh, I just drooled a little.

I remember crying the last time I tried to medicate one cat. I hope most of them are only on a short course of meds.

I am an apartment dweller so I have a hard time finding green tomatoes around here.

oh my gawad!! yum!!! also, since i have 7 cats i actually laughed when i read you sat dwn and cried cause like how many times have i wanted to stangle the little darlins but love took over instead. those friend green tomato girls are yummy!!!!! yummy!!!! yummy lookiin!!!! this just proves that there is a gawd. hav a wonderful much need rest. we love ya girl!

I've never tried Fried Green tomatoes. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

I'm starting a Friday recipe exchange. Stop by my blog tomorrow and take a look.

I'm having warm memories of a favorite niece's husband who always refers to chick flicks as "Fried Green Magnolias of Endearment."

Fried green tomatos.... it doesn't get much better than that!

turtlegirl, ranch dressing goes great with ranch dressing! Hook me up an IV!

I'm sorry to say I'm a hopeless Yankee when it comes to fried green tomatoes. My mom's side of the family is almost exclusively Southern, so she grew up with FGTs, and she'd always make them for us kids to try. Yuck. Slimy, greasy, breaded, and served with a glass of buttermilk. The first time I tried them, I managed to get a few down the hatch, but when they hit bottom they came right back up. Every time after that, my mom would say "oh, you won't puke this time", but I always did. And I wasn't the only one. Not a single one of my siblings liked them. Eventually we found ways of tricking my mom into thinking we'd eaten them so we could have dessert, like hiding them under our plates or (and I can't believe she didn't catch on to this one) stuffing our cheeks with FGTs, then excusing ourselves to the bathroom. "Plop!"

Hey, you do know how to cook!

Bacon grease! Girl, your southern is showing! (however, yum to the bacon grease)

Haven't posted in awhile cuz I went and got all married-like. A long time ago I wrote you that I was once dumped and screwed and misrable in LA. Now I'm fat and sassy and in-love-for-10-years-and-finally-got-hitched at forty-feckin-TWO! It ain't over till it's over...

All's I'm saying.

Wanted to let you know I'm using your buget sheet and love it--you know, to start recovering from wedding madness. Power to the PINK!

And since I've not been able to read in a couple of weeks, I've been catching up. You are a rare and gifted writer. I'm framing that one about the juicy-booty! AMEN.

Hey, Laurie,

Just a question... is there something in the Cancer stars that says: you will spend tons of bucks on your pets this month.???

After forking over $300 for one dog with an eye infection, my other dog blew out her knee and will have ($6000) surgery on Tuesday.

You have your cats... I have my dogs.. I think it's in the stars.

Debra, May did not end up being the fan-effing-tastic month for Cancer it was supposed to be, at least not in my house. I'm sorry about your dogs!

MaryMR, congratulations lady!!!! :)

Hi everyone else! and yeah... my southern is showing heheheheheh. Love it!

YUMMMY!!! I am the only one in my house who eats fried green tomatoes......love them.......I always ask my neighbor for some green tomatoes out of his garden......also for radishes for a radish sandwich:)

Yum! I had fried green tomatoes just last week!

Sorry about the kitties.

For those blogstalkers who weren't sure about the " green 'mater" part of FGT, buy yourselves green (as in " unripe") rather than " green as in Green Zebra" or other cool varietal" 'maters.
Fry a' la Laurie's recipe and enjoy. Couple other Southerners suggested using buttermilk dip to keep the coating in place on the tomatoes and I gotta agree- buttermilk is, like, authentic for east of where CAP's from. As far as the coating itself, cornmeal or flour (or breadcrumbs or saltine crumbs or a mixture of all of 'em) or if you're in or visiting the South, hit the grocery aisle where they sell flour and cornmeal and look for sacks of what's labeled “ breader"- NOT that nasty Shake and Snake®, but stuff called " seafood breader" or " chicken breader" and you'll have authentically seasoned, lazy-gal's coating for the tomatoes!

You can always use ketchup with a little hot sauce (Crystal or Tabasco) mixed in as a dipping sauce once fried, and bacon grease is a big ol' frying no for y'all vegetarians or those who are cooking for vegetarians

Don't forget the sweet ice tea, or ice cold coke, pepsi or dr. pepper (diet versions are fine) as the ultimate accompaniment!

I prefer Texas Pete over Crystal and Tabasco.

mmmm...I've always wanted to try fried green tomatoes. Those look yummy!

My brother and SIL got a little carried away one year with planting the veggies and decided to put up a table by the side of the road. This being upstate NY they naturally were selling the tomatoes that were ripe. The movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" had just come out, and people actually asked them if they had any green tomatoes! Since they were just at the foot of the hill they lived on, one of them drove up, picked a bunch of unripe tomatoes, and sold'em. Hey, what the customer wants...

A friend of mine whose kitty had been mysteriously injured was told by a vet that kitties LOVE canned pumpkin and to feed it to her instead of the $$$$ special easy-to-digest-for-injured-cat food. The plain stuff, not the pre-spiced pumpkin pie filling. Maybe it might help the medicine go down?

Would you believe I carry a small container of Tony's Creole seasoning in my purse? You never know when you will have a bland food emergency.

I've played the kitty nursing game, too. My beloved Boppin suffered a saddle thrombus and I talked the vet into letting me try to take care of him at home instead of having him put to sleep. I had to give him heparin (blood thinner) injections three times a day. He wouldn't eat or drink at first so I also had to give both by syringe several times a day. He eventually made an amazing recovery (although still partially paralysed) and I had an additional 8 or 9 months with him before he had a recurrence. It was worth all the hassle and not a day goes by that I don't miss that cat.

You are being a very good cat mommy and I hope they are all better soon.

Have a good weekend too. I'm planning a baby hat knitting extravaganza (although I don't get a lo-o-o-o-ng weekend).

oooooooo, those tomatoes look good. are they yours? i don't even have mine planted yet!

sorry about the cats, maybe things will be better when you're not trying to medicate them at 445 am?

I like to cheat and use Zataran's Fish Fry, which also is great for okra and, according to the package, zucchini. Haven't tried the zucchini yet. The first time that I had fried green tomatoes--which my southern father did not introduce me to, something that will need to be explained to me someday--the guy used Japanese bread crumbs and a sweet black soy sauce in place of the eggs. Omigod!

Milinda, I can see using panko for FGT breading. Not certain how the thick sweeet black soy worked but since I have both in the house, it's likely that I'll hit the farmer's market this weekend and see if anybody has any green maters for sale yet. I might mix the black soy with a beaten egg first, though.
The poster that mentioned the Canadian recipe using mayonnaise rather than milk, cream, buttermilk or an egg wash- I'm thinking of trying the recipe with Kewpie mayonnaise and panko.
Just gained an inch per thigh contemplating cooking!

Yeah I can relate to one of those days.

That makes me want to fry up some eggplant or some zucchini.

BTW: how does the ad's on your blog work? If I click on it, do you get money? Will each time I click on it work or does it only recored it onces from each ip address?

I swear I can smell those tomatoes through the screen! And it's 11:30 at night and I have the insane urge to go down to the 24 hr Food for Less to hunt for the elusive green tomato...but I know they'll just have the travelled-2,000-miles, red tomatoes. Our family does the triple dip: egg wash, flour, then cornmeal dusting.
I want to know how this contagion spread through the Internets to my Mr. Peanut...'cause now he's on antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory. I'm crossing my fingers, 'cause so far it's working, crushing the pills up really fine & dissolving 'em in a little Whiska kitty milk - he's lapping it up - and the other cats are all jealous & trying to get some (they're also calling him a Mama's boy and pulling his tail when they think I'm not looking!) Have a good rest!

Whoops! I've been lurking so long it still had my old URL (not that anyone's likely to click it - it's just my OCD kicking in - "Wrong URL - must correct immediately!") OK, I'll go away quietly now.

Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love fried green tomatoes! Yummy

Laurie, thanks for sharing the recipe! I ALWAYS wondered how to do that. Looks wonderful. And I'm right there with ya'll on the cats & the crying, I'm giving my cat fluid injections every other day and it makes me feel like crap, too. He fights it even though it's good for him and I have to be mean to the animal I love more than most people. It does suck. Hang in there.

And you cook, too? Seriously, I love, I mean love Southern food. Comes from my dad who grew up in South Carolina and Virginia. I keep explaining to Southern Californians that, no, you don't put syrup on grits, just butter and salt and pepper. Yum!

Ok, I'm from the South and I owned a restaurant once and I'm willing to share my secret fried green tomatoes recipe.

It's called a southern BLT.

Fried green tomatoes,bacon,lettuce, bread and dressing of choice. Mayo for me. Butter and grill the bread before assemblage.
YUUUUMMMMM!!!

I have to say, Laurie, from one southern writer to another, you are hysterical.
Have a great holiday.....

I see London, I see France, I see the bottom of Roy's tonsils. (Well, he doesn't wear underpants and I'm an agnostic so waddaya expect me to say?) ;)

Sorry that it's been such a rubbish month for you and the felines and I hope that June is better.

PS: I've never eaten FGT's but they look awfully good.

I just had to post about the fried green tomato disaster of my younger years in my blog after reading this! All these years later, I've never tried them again. But I am this summer! They sound so good. I'm growing my own tomatoes, and I'm eating them all myself. My ungrateful family members are not getting any!

Have a great holiday weekend, Laurie.

Had to edit this, since clicking on my name sends everyone to a blog that is not mine! Mine is http://fiberfreak.blogspot.com

Had to do change the URL. It's http://fondyfiberfreak.com come vist me!

A friend recently introduced me to your blog and you're hysterical...

As far as fried green tomatoes...well, my extremely southern ex-mother-in-law likes to soak them in a mixture of vinegar and water for about an hour after slicing...then drain on paper towels, season with Tonys and dredge in Zatarains Fish Fry with some salt and pepper...These tend to let you taste more of the tomato and don't seem to get as soggy...

There is now a wonderful little tool that looks kind of like a long syringe that will shoot the pill into the back of a cat's throat...it works great for the first few times until the cat realizes what is really going on...

#5, I believe, should have referred to MeowSpace.com. Cats would never entertain the idea of sharing their cyberspace, you know!

I am so jealous that you have green tomatoes already. We in the midwest have to wait another month or so. I just recommend a very slight drizzling of balsamic vinegar---yeah, I know, not so Southern, but oh so yummy with the tomatoes. Fry on!

It must be in the air. I made myself some just a few weeks ago.
I ate 4 before I finished cooking the rest of our supper.
Yum.
:)

YUM-OH! Love fried green 'maters!!! Momma used to make red ones, too, and sprinkle them with parmesan cheese. Heaven on a plate.

mmm... i looove fried green tomatoes. But i must wait until fall so i can use up the tomatoes that won't ripen before the first frost and all that. I eat mine with harissa. Excuse me now, i am off to drool...

I am sorry to hear about your troubles with your kitties but I do now feel for your somewhat. My kitty is on medication and thinks I am very evil for giving him it.

Sorry had to update my blog address!