Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Southern Vegetables


This past weekend we visited Anderson's Farms. Their motto is "Food Less Travelled". My grandmother would have called this a "really big truck patch". I love vegetables and fruit right out of the ground. Love this time of year.

There were beautiful sweet onions.

A wagon of beautiful sweet watermelons.


I so appreciated the use of the term 'maters'. I love Louisiana.


Awesome bushel of purple hull peas. This is 'garden heaven'.


All I have to say is sweet corn on the cob -

I inadvertently forgot to take pictures of my green tomatoes. Tomorrow I will have fried green tomatoes. I use a buttermilk wash and drench in corn meal and pan fry in canola oil using a cast iron skillet. There is a huge debate between flour or corn meal. I am definitely on the corn meal side.

Pearl of Wisdom: Never, ever let someone else clean your cast iron skillet - strangers can't be trusted with this life time investment.

3 comments:

Mitzi@MoonlightandMagnolias said...

Awesome images! I love the outdoor veggie stands! Can't say I have ever had fried green tomatoes, but I do eat fried eggplant. Humm, maybe I should give them a try?

Glenda/MidSouth said...

Lots of good eating there! :) Enjoy!

Janet said...

It all looks so good and I know it will taste wonderful. I am with you on the cast iron skillets. They are all I know how to cook in and you don't want anyone messing them up.