Southern Cooking at its Best

First of all... I love fresh, locally grown produce, handmade crafts, and other locally resourced goods. 

So as soon as I was able to, I visited the Saturday Market in downtown Augusta. I was impressed by how much it has grown since last year and by the caliber of vendors this year. I went there looking for specific items and was lucky enough to find them.

My spoils from the market....
 Green tomatoes (toms), local honey, chocolate mint, lemongrass, 3 pairs of earrings, a bracelet for me and a bracelet for KB.
(I LOVE jewelry!!!)

So I started on my menu for that evening's dinner.

Of course the green toms had to be fried, and I had already picked up some Mahi-Mahi filets. I love a combination of sweet vs. spicy. It's one of my favorite flavor combos. After doing some research on Pinterest (I also LOVE Pinterest!!!) I had my menu completed.

Honey Cajun Mahi-Mahi, fried green toms, spicy remoulade sauce, and "clean out the fridge" salsa!!

I was so excited. Tim had been on call (and worked) the entire weekend. He deserved a great meal, and I wanted to show off a little.

I started the assembly process for the green toms, chopped my veggies for the salsa, seasoned the Mahi, and whipped up the remoulade.

I fry veggies/meat in a traditional Southern method - flour dusting, egg wash, breadcrumbs, hot oil...

I also prefer a good crisp!!!

I seasoned the filets with Tony Catcher's Cajun seasoning. It's my "go to" along with Nature's Seasoning.

Isn't that bubbling honey beautiful??

"clean out the fridge" salsa is something I've done to use up leftovers in the fridge. I also do it with hot and cold pasta, rice and casseroles. For this salsa I had cooked fresh corn (sliced off the cob), raw snow peas, red toms, yellow pepper, cucumber, and jalepeno. A little salt and pepper (S/P) and fresh squeezed lime juice and it was done...... Easy, right??

The finished product!!!

I can always tell when Tim enjoys my cooking/food/menu. He does this "mmmm" "mmmm" "mmmm" sound every other bite!! It makes me feel good knowing I can make something so beautiful and taste so good.

Enjoy!!!