fried green tomatoes

ok, so.....i attempted to make fried green tomatoes as a lunch side to to pine-nut crusted salon.....i had made corn pudding to also go with it, and thought i'd use a tad of the batter to cover the tomatoes.....ooops...it seems that when one fried tomatoes, one must use dry rather than wet coating......what a mess......i am not cut out for southern cooking.......