I am SWIMMING in Okra--any recipes?

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FINALLY I wrestled the camera away and got some pictures.
(BOY, am I sweating...pant, pant, pant...)

The package SAID they would grow to 3 feet high. How about over 5 foot?!?

 

[ducks4you]

Worked out a good way to make it!
This is a variation of the recipe from Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, which recommended vegetable shortening, a bag to "shake and bake" with, and cooking on a skillet.

Fried Okra (with bacon grease and Cajun Seasoning)
Ingrediants--
2 cups okra, sliced no larger than 1/2 inch wide
1/3 cup flour
1/3 cup cornmeal
3 tablespoons (minimum) Cajun seasoning (your choice)
1 pound bacon (your choice)
1 egg
3 tablespoons half and half

Directions:
1) Preheat the oven at 350 degrees F
2) Place the whole pound of bacon in a Dutch Oven, cover and bake
3) Let bake for 20 minutes, check, turn when one side is brown and crispy
4) Check again 10 minutes later. Continue to check every 5 minutes or so, to prevent the bacon from burning
5) Remove bacon from Dutch Oven
6) Slightly beat one egg and mix it with Half and Half
7) Coat okra with mixture
8) Mix thoroughly flour, cornmeal and Cajun Seasoning
9) Coat okra with flour mixture
10) Pour coated okra into the Dutch Oven with the bacon grease
11) Increase oven temperature to 400 degrees F
12) Cover Dutch Oven with lid, and let cook for about 10 minutes
13) Uncover and flip okra
14) Monitor, to prevent burning
15) Spoon out okra onto a plate with paper towels

I have tried several receipes, but I like the taste of the bacon grease the best. Also, I ended up throwing away the extra vegetable shortening, when I cooked the okra with that, but the bacon grease gets soaked up by the flour mixture--less waste, easier to clean the Dutch Oven.
DD says it tastes like the fried okra you order at the Cracker Barrel.