Cute recipes from Fried Green Tomatoes

The best southern cookbook ever! With little touches of wit and wisdom added... The cornbread dressing recipe is just like Mama used to make!

This was a fun cookbook to look through, all of Fannie's notes and comments were very entertaining.

My favorite: "A balanced meal. Isn't that when you have the same amount of sugar as you do fat?"

I wasn't thrilled with this cookbook. I've made Fried Green Tomatoes and although it was fun & tasty, it's not on the top of my list of favorites. I was hoping to find a new favorite recipe but the ones in here are so 1950's old fashioned that they usually cook everything beyond fresh flavors or I've seen them in church cookbooks for a few decades. So nothing really caught my attention. The quips from her books are really fun to read though. She's a great writer of the down home wit.

book two of "books i used to make this: https://www.thereadingroom.com/articl..."

in which i get to use the additional pictures and actually say something about the recipes.

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Sweet Potato Croquettes

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i love the idea of this - that you wrap a bunch of mashed sweet potato around a freaking marshmallow and then roll it in cornflakes and deep fry it. it's genius. however, by the time they had cooled down enough to eat (and believe me - i was not patient about it so let's just say they were BARELY cool enough to eat), the marshmallow had been raptured and there was barely anything that could be pointed to and identified as marshmallow. also, i had trouble making the cornflakes stay on once they were in the deep frying stage and i had to kinda scoop them up outta the oil afterward and press them back into the potato balls. did i mention i had never deep fried anything myself before?? this is why i need more carnies in my life. also for the oversized stuffed animals. but so if you are a scholar of deep-frying, you'll probably be fine and you should make these for me.

Squash Casserole

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this recipe was even more disappointing than the sweet potato one because its failure to be delicious was not my fault. it's just a pretty bland recipe. it looked beautiful and i love summer squash and all, but the end result didn't have a lot of flavor and the texture was gummy and chunky at the same time. maybe adding something acidic like tomato would boost it a little? or maybe some spinach?? i dunno - in any event, i did not love.

Lemon Ice Box Pie

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but this one YESSSSSSSS a million times YESSSSSSSSSSS. oh, man, i was SUCH a fan of this. it was so bright and sour and creamy, i will make it a hundred more times. there are actually a ton more dessert recipes that look delicious in this book (many of them lemon-based), so i may test those as well in the future and maybe have a summertime dessert-only picnic. with some oversize stuffed animals.

There are few guarantees in this life, but I am ALWAYS guaranteed a plethora of laughs if I'm reading Fannie Flagg. I start smiling on Page 1 and before long my ribs are hurting and hubby is asking, "What's so funny?" Then he's laughing too. With maternal southern grandparents, good food was almost a religion and milk gravy was a staple, so I loved these recipes that reminded me of all our family meals that were about a lot more than just consuming food. Fannie's recipe for Fried Okra is exactly the way we cook it, which is the first time I've run across this in a southern cookbook. I loved all her humorous or touching notes with each recipe and the passages from her books were a joy to read. (BTW, if you want something really special, add some shrimp to her cheesy grits.)

A cookbook of true comfort food!

Loved it. Fannie Flagg at her best. She’s a born story teller.

After the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, based on Fannie Flagg's novel, came out fans wanted to cookbook of all the recipes featured in the movie. While Flagg doesn't consider herself much of a cook, the Whistle Stop Cafe was based on her aunt's cafe from her childhood. So, Flagg got the recipes from the cook at her aunt's cafe and this book was born. While there were some recipes I'd like to try, many of them seemed pretty outdated and there was a LOT of using margarine, which I haven't bought or used in years and would not recommend at all. But, there were a lot of quotes from her books throughout the cookbook and every few pages there was an essay about Southern food written by Flagg so those were great to read. Overall, it was pretty good and there seem to be some solid, Southern recipes, but not anything to get super excited about.

If you loved the movie, you'll love the snippets of
dialog throughout this book. Recipes look great,
and I'll try some before returning the book to
the library. But not the possum!

Has some wonderful recipes that brought back memories of my mother's cooking. The anecdotes along the way are hysterical, of course. Classic Fannie Flagg!

Fun read, I made one of the cake recipes