Showing posts with label Saltine crackers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saltine crackers. Show all posts

Cracklin' Georgia Cracker Salad

Here's a definitely distinctively delicious salad just for you!


This surely sounds like a Southern recipe and I’m curious about the origin.  Were saltines and a jar of mayo hanging out on the counter beside a bowl of juicy chopped tomatoes when the Georgia cook wanted a salad and VOILA?  

Any which way, I tore this recipe out of some newspaper years ago because we’re wild about tomatoes and the crackers with it intrigued me.  

Sometimes, I add another egg or an extra onion or two and use Hellman’s Reduced Fat Mayonnaise with Olive Oil instead of regular mayo.  I go light on the salt or not at all and heavy on the pepper. 

The saltine’s crunchiness combined with the egg, mayo and luscious, ripe, juicy tomato cries out summer time like nothing else!   YUM!!!


Georgia Cracker Salad

Ingredients:

1 sleeve saltine crackers, about 40 saltines
1 large ripe tomato, finely chopped
3 green onions, finely chopped
1½ cups mayonnaise
1 hardboiled egg, finely chopped
Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste

Method:

In a medium-size bowl, coarsely crush the crackers with your hands into big cracker pieces.
Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
Season with salt and pepper.
Serve immediately.
4 servings

If you’re a tomato lover, you have to give this a try! 


Be sure to visit my friend, Linda’s blog @My Kind of Cooking for great tips, recipes. 




Saltine Toffee Crunch


This is one crazy delicious toffee delight and soooo easy to make! I'm so glad I came upon this recipe in our local newspaper, The Northwest Herald!

A saltine cracker has always been one of life’s little pleasures for me whether spread with peanut butter, topped with a cheese slice or along with a bowl of soup but, I never would have imagined the lowly saltine cracker being exalted to a great party confection!

The combination of the salty cracker with the butter and brown sugar that turns into toffee and then topped with semi-sweet chocolate and toasted pecans is addictive for sure.  The saltine renders an irresistible salt crunch to play off the buttery sweet toffee.  What great cracker candy!


Saltine Toffee Crunch

Ingredients:

1 cup butter
35 saltine crackers
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 package (12 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate chips, I used Ghirardelli’s
1 cup chopped pecans, toasted

Method:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Line a 10” x 15” rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper, allowing for some overhang.
Melt butter in a large saucepan.
Brush parchment with a little butter.
Line up crackers on buttered parchment, touching but not overlapping.
Whisk brown sugar into remaining butter.  Set over medium-high heat.  Bring to a boil; boil thick, 2 minutes.
Pour evenly over crackers.
Place in 400-degree oven and bake until brown and bubbly, 10 minutes.
Carefully remove from oven.
Scatter molten surface with chocolate chips.
Let melt 5 minutes.
Use an offset spatula to spread chocolate.
Cast on nuts, gently press into chocolate.
Freeze until firm, 30 minutes.
Lift parchment by its overhang and set toffee (paper and all) on a cutting surface.
Slice into 18 squares, then into 36 triangles or break into chunks.


I’d call it “sin on a cracker!”

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Fried Green Tomatoes

Corn meal above cracker crumbs

“I miss the smell of coffee, and bacon fryin’. Oh and what I wouldn’t give for a plate of fried green tomatoes like we used to have at the cafe.”  Remember that line by Ninny from “Fried Green Tomatoes?” 

I love fried green tomatoes ~ I’m referring to the great vegetable now, not the movie; although, the movie is one of my absolute favorites.  Right now is the time of year to be frying up some green tomatoes as they’re the perfect size and they’re firm enough that they remain firm after frying. 

Bacon drippings or lard is the traditional way to fry green tomatoes but, there are a lot of variations with whether to dip them in milk or eggs and to bread them with cornmeal, flour or cracker crumbs.  I’ve always made some with corn meal and some with flour.  This time though, I made half with corn meal and the other half with cracker crumb breading.  I could not believe how delicious they were with the cracker crumbs!  It’s a bit of nostalgia for me because it reminds me of Grandma’s fried green tomatoes dipped in egg and then breaded and fried to perfection in lard. 

“Towanda!!!”  “I’m older and I have more insurance!”  What an incredible scream from Evelyn when she was cut off in the parking lot and crashed into the snippy girls’ car in “Fried Green Tomatoes!” 




Here’s the recipe:

Fried Green Tomatoes

Ingredients:

5 green tomatoes, sliced ½” thick
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon McCormick’s Seasoned Pepper
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 cup saltine crackers, crushed
2 eggs, beaten
Cooking oil or bacon drippings

Method:

In a small bowl, stir together flour, salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper.
Crush the crackers into another bowl.
In a third bowl, beat the eggs.
Melt oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
Dip each tomato slice in the egg to coat.
Then into the flour mixture.
Dip the floured tomato slice back into the egg mixture.
Now finish by dipping it into the cracker crumbs.
Place the breaded tomato into the hot skillet.
Fry until golden on each side, about 4-5 minutes for each side.
Serve hot.



These fried green tomatoes will make you scream ~ TOWANDA!




Visit my friend, Linda’s blog, at My Kind of Cooking for her great recipes and a chance to win her cookbook.  She’s in Minnesota now at the Mid-States Trade Show, showcasing her new cookbook. 








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