Okra planting

[Ridgerunner]

Pickled okra can be pretty good too.

Interesting that some people think it has to be slimy, that depends on how it is prepared. If you keep it really dry when you are cutting it up it doesn't get slimy then. get it wet and it's a different story.

 

[thistlebloom]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that so many of you are not normal.

 

[Nyboy]

Not sure if its a North or NY thing but okra is never on restaurant menu. When a restaurant had it as a special I tried it, was some kind of rice dish. Very slimy

 

[ducks4you]

@ducks4you Yes, sounds good but I love to go to garden, pick okra, garlic, onions, peppers, start 2 pieces of bacon (add enough vegetable oil to fry) and fry. When the kids are home, can't fry enough. Mom did this. Dad's mom did this. IT'S A FAMILY TRADITION!!!

'Cept GM used lard from their own hogs.

Sounds wonderful, BUT, DH has to eat low/no salt, so I found a way to do it. The other recipe is great for me and DD's.

 

[ducks4you]

If you don't like okra give to it those who do! I have tried hard to like eggplant, but I don't, so I let the eggplant fans enjoy, instead. Don't judge people's personal tastes.

 

[thistlebloom]

If you don't like okra give to it those who do! I have tried hard to like eggplant, but I don't, so I let the eggplant fans enjoy, instead. Don't judge people's personal tastes.

It was just a joke Ducks. I was aiming at @seedcorn , sorry you got some of the buckshot too.

 

[majorcatfish]

um if you dont like okra why plant it in the 1st place wouldn't be wiser to plant something everyone likes....

 

[ducks4you]

I know your humor!! Seriously, I WILL TAKE your unwanted okra.

 

[Collector]

I keep saying that I want to try okra and never have. I have friends from the south that talk about it all the time like its the best. I hope all who like it get as much as they want of it lol. I still want to try it sometime, but I suspect what they sell at the supermarket is not the high quality stuff.

 

[Ridgerunner]

When I'm on the Gulf Coast I eat seafood. When I'm in the heartland I eat meat standard for that area, probably steak or pork but certainly not seafood. It's not because you can't get fresh seafood up here, you can. Fresh seafood probably spends more time on ice in the boat that caught it than it spends in the refrigerated truck on the trip up here. You can get great cuts of meat on the Gulf Coast. But the people on the Gulf Coast know how to cook fish, crab, shrimp, and oysters. People in the heartland know how to cook beef and pork, not seafood.

People that have never eaten okra or didn't grow up with it just might not know how to cook it. As many of us know you can't beat fresh, but the other side of the equation is that you need to know how to fix it.