Grill-Broiled Green Tomatoes

From Thou Shalt Not Grill
Tamar Myers

Ingredients:

4 medium or 2 large green tomatoes
Salt
2 tablespoons bacon drippings or extra-virgin olive oil
Whole black pepper in a pepper mill

Prepare a grill with hardwood coals and light them, or position a rack about 5 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven broiler for at least 15 minutes before you are ready to cook the tomatoes. Cut the tomatoes in half crosswise, lightly sprinkle the cut side with salt, and invert them in a colander set over the sink. Drain them for 30 minutes.

When the coals are ready or the broiler is very hot, wipe the cut side of the tomatoes dry. Lightly brush them with the drippings or oil,then sprinkle them with generous grindings of pepper. (If you are using the oven broiler, skip to step 3.) Put tomatoes on the grill cut side down and grill until they are lightly browned, about 6 to 8 minutes. Lightly brush them with more drippings or oil, turn them, and continue grilling until the tomatoes are tender, about 8 minutes more.

If you are using the oven broiler, put the tomatoes cut side up into a broiling pan fitted with a rack. Position the rack under the broiler within 6 inches of the heat source and place the tomatoes on it. Broil until the cut side is nicely browned, about 8 minutes. Turn them carefully, brush lightly with more drippings or oil, and continue broiling until the tomatoes are tender, about 8 minutes more.

Serves 4.

More about Thou Shalt Not Grill
Tamar Myers

Tamar Myers tantalizes readers with her perfect mix of mouthwatering recipes and mayhem. Now, the national bestselling author dishes up a sizzling new mystery that takes intrepid innkeeper Magdalena Yoder outdoors for some outrageous sleuthing…

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen…and head to the Hernia bicentennial barbecue where guests will partake in some great outdoor cooking and the unearthing of the 1904 centennial time capsule. Rumor has it that the capsule contains the key to a great fortune. But when it goes missing and Magdalena’s guest, Buzzy Porter, is found dead, suspicions flare. With the police on a perpetual picnic, Magdalena has to dig into the pasts of her guests at the Penn Dutch Inn, grill the likely suspects—and smoke out the killer…

INCLUDES A HALF-DOZEN SIZZLING RECIPES FOR THE OUTDOOR GRILL!

(A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery with Recipes)
NAL, January 2005
Featuring: Magdalena Yoder
272 pages ISBN: 0451212134
Paperback
$6.50

Also by Tamar Myers:
Assault And Pepper, February 2005
Custard's Last Stand, January 2004
Custard's Last Stand, February 2003
Gruel and Unusual Punishment, January 2003
The Crepes of Wrath, January 2002
The Hand That Rocked the Ladle, March 2000
Play It Again Spam, August 1999
Eat, Drink, and Be Wary, September 1998
Between a Wok and a Hard Place, March 1998
Just Plain Pickled to Death, October 1997
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Crime, August 1997
No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk, March 1997
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth, August 1995
Thou Shalt Not Grill, January 1991

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