Creole tomatoes are in their green state these days, which is fine with me. For one thing, I know that the ripe red creoles are just weeks away; for another, I love fried green tomatoes. Love them.
The use of green tomatoes on a BLT has been a bit of a lunch trend in the city--La Petite Grocery offered a BLT with green tomato jam last spring, for instance, which was outstanding. The tarter, "greener" flavor of a green tomato plays well with smoky bacon, and just feels like spring, to me. At last week's Saturday market, Paul found baby green creole tomatoes, about the size of limes. They were so cute, and their slices so perfectly round, that they just seemed to be crying out for the starring role in a BLT. So that's what we had--cocktail-sized fried-green-tomato BLTs. Hooray!
Tagged with: bacon, sandwich, tomatoes, blt, french quarter, creole tomato festival, fried green tomato
