Fried Green Tomato BLT Salad combines the tasty Southern classic and your fave bacon sandwich with a fresh ranch dressing made from scratch.

Fried Green Tomato BLT Salad

By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

This week I wanted to share with you a fried green tomato BLT salad with ranch dressing from scratch.

It is a somber time for me now, since one of my foodie friends passed away suddenly (Kim Churchill of Simply Katering in Sarasota Florida). It is hard to find much to say when someone so young passes so suddenly. Then the debacle that she was found because she was missed online, especially at FaceBook, where her friends often gathered. She lived alone, except for her two kitties, who were trapped in the house with her. Then arguing breaking out among the group of friends because some of us were all for getting those cats adopted since her son sent one to a kill shelter and another had not yet been found. And a troll crawled out of a hole and implied that gathering donations to get the cats taken care of was a fortuitous gambit in the name of profit, which is so absurd. That another food blogger would come out and say such terrible things when friends are just trying to help and be humane to innocent animals astounds me and leaves me gobsmacked.

But I do want to talk about how foodies gather together and make family, even if it isn’t the family we know from our home towns. Many friends I have met online mean very much to me. And among my foodie friends, I have known them for 15 years now. We were younger then, and I remember musing one time that someday we would all be old together. I have seen some of these friends pass away. Some unexpectedly, like Kim, who was near my age, and some not as unexpectedly. But hearts are hurting right now.

But at least we are joining together to take care of the cats. I have two cats myself, and it gives me pause to discuss with my husband those things which need to be said about the cats in case something unexpected would happen to either of us. I’ve made sure our daughter has the key to get in our home to get the cats if needed, and we need frank discussions with loved ones about who should care for the cats should the worst ever happen.

So I am sorry to be a downer in this post, but I did wake up at 3 in the morning last night wondering what would become of Kim’s furbabies. It seemed to me to be a bit more important for all of us to consider what we would do with our pets instead of the merits of homemade ranch dressing and delicious friend green tomatoes. Those are good, to be sure, but even better to be prepared for whatever life may throw at us out of the blue.

So anyhoo, that’s my chat and spiel for the day. Just don’t forget to scroll down to see the other recipe titles today. There look to be plenty of interesting recipes and you wouldn’t want to miss out. Stay safe, stay prepared, stay happy, and check on your loved ones. And their pets. I’ll be back tomorrow with an interesting grilled cheese recipe for you. I scarfed mine down over a glass of wine.

And to lighten things up, Bill’s sitting here, and since I wanted to add some one-liner about what he thought of his grilled cheese, you know,  something quick, just a few short words and he stared blankly at me. To which I said: just imagine you’re Bruce Willis on some strange planet being interviewed by Chris Tucker.

And Bill mumbled into his imaginary mic: “It was crunchy, cheesy, delicious. At least I think!?!?!?”

Don’t trust him. Try it for yourself. 😉

I told him I have movie lines stacked up like punchcard files in my brain, going way back to prehistory, like an endless line of dominoes. Yeah, I’m weird like that.

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