The other night there came a dire weather prediction.  Possible frost!  I nipped out to the garden with shears and a basket.  I cleaned all the tomatoes, ripening and green ones, from the vines.  The last two eggplants joined them in the basket.  We didn’t get the frost and now I have a large basket of green tomatoes on my table.

     Last night for dinner, I took advantage of having green tomatoes on hand.  I sliced them, dusted them with seasoned flour, dipped them egg then a seasoned cornmeal and breadcrumb mixture, and fried them to a lovely golden brown.  I placed them on a cookie sheet and kept them warm in the oven while I cooked the rest of our dinner.

     Which, since I’d already headed down south with the tomatoes, and had a hot frying pan ready, made me make a quick decision to turn DH’s hamburger steak and my steak into chicken fried steaks.  Well, then when the steaks were done, I had to make redeye gravy didn’t I?

     At least I stopped there and didn’t add mashed potatoes.  We would’ve burst had I made them too.  As it was, we were full.