BBQ Chicken and Fried Green Tomatoes

What else to do with the first green tomatoes from the farmer's market than fry them up? I used this recipe and served them with jalapeno vinegar. I've also been yearning to start experimenting with my own bbq sauces. We haven't picked up a smoker yet, so I had to use my oven broiler. But, oh well, it was yummy anyway!

Ingredients:

• Chicken for broiling (I use thigh meat)

For the bbq sauce (inspired by this one at bbq recipes for foodies):

• 2 cups cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 TB red pepper flakes
• 2 TB hot sauce
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp freshly ground pepper
• 1 whole onion, grated
• 2 TB catsup

Directions:

• Whisk all the bbq sauce ingredients together in a saucepan early in the day.
• Bring to a boil.
• Cover, and reduce heat to low.
• Leave simmering all morning to thicken.
• Your house will smell like vinegar!
• Early afternoon marinade the chicken in the bbq sauce (you probably won't need all the bbq sauce--I had plent leftover for another time)
  
• When you're ready to make the chicken, turn on the broiler.
• Cook 8 minutes on each side, basting with bbq sauce you used to marinade every couple of minutes.
• Your chicken will get blackened--yum.

Besides fried green tomatoes, I served mine with Southern biscuits and a very pared down version of Southern Style Navy Bean Soup( no ham bone, sausage, or turnip greens, just the other veggies and salt pork).

What I was listening to while I cooked: A 70s Texas mix that included folk/country singers such as Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt