Summer Food! Fried Green Tomatoes & Pear Salad

When it's warm out, my body craves fruits and veggies.  For dinner one night I made tacos and needed something fun to go along with them.

For an appetizer (something to munch on while the tacos where being made!), I made my first batch of fried green tomatoes.  They were simple to make and were super yummy!  *Warning- cleaning up the frying pan isn't quite as easy!

Bought the green tomatoes at the grocery store, and they came with instructions.

Cut up 4 tomatoes (just a few are seen in the pics).

Used 2% milk and seasoned yellow cornmeal with salt, pepper, red pepper.

Dipped the tomatoes in the milk then in the cornmeal mix.

Fried them in canola oil until brown.

Ta-da!

We dipped them in chipotle sauce (Miracle Whip makes a good chipotle) and ate them up!

There were a few left over, so I put them in the fridge and warmed them up the next day in the oven.

For dessert I made a pear salad.  I bought a red pear and a green pear.  I cut them up and mixed in Cool Whip, carmel topping, vanilla extract, whipping cream, sugar, lemon juice, and cinnamon.  I just glanced in the fridge and pantry to see what might go good together!  The whipping cream really gave it a good texture.

The pear salad started getting a little runny after 2 days, so I recommend only fixing what you'll eat in one day.

What foods do you like to fix in the spring/summer?