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Bob and Susan
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we've never eaten okra...
never seen it on a menu either
"let's see..i'd like the plate of okra please"
what's okra used for?????
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You obviously have never been to Louisiana...ever had gumbo?
We slice it across the pod(you have little circles of okra) , add a little corn meal, salt and pepper and fry it in a little oil til crunchy.
It is NOT crunchy in gumbo. I also put it in vegetable soup. Never have cared for it steamed....way too slimy for me.
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It's vegetable most common in the south, I've had it batter dipped and deep fried, not bad. They also use it in Gumbo, I don't care for it that way,
too slimey.
[Edited on 8-12-2007 by Debra]
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It's pretty good pickled, too!
If you've ever had campbell's vegetarian vegetable soup, you've eaten it, it's in there. When I was a very young kid, I thought that those little
slices of okra were the vegetarians...since I never saw them anywhere else but in the vegetarian vegetable soup!!
Thanks for solving the mystery!
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Okra is good; fried, boiled(put some butter on it), pickled, in gumbo, cooked with beans, and any other way you can imagine. I suspect it has unknown qualities that have yet to be discovered. The only bad thing about okra is picking it, also referred to as harvesting.
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A friend was over for dinner last night and she said that it is very popular in India.
I have heard of angu(I think that is the word in Spanish) relleno but have never had it. Seems that the ones big enough to stuff would not be very
tender.
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Our Okra is growing so fast right now in the hot weather that we can harvest the pods when they're six or seven inches long and they're still pretty
tender...we'll have to try that angu relleno!
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Here are the flowers
Still no okra but the plants are beautiful
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What a fun thread this has been, got me interested in trying fried okra, what lovely flowers.
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Okra The smaller "pods" are the ones you want, if they're over 5 or 6 inches long they can be tuff and stringy.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
we've never eaten okra...
never seen it on a menu either
"let's see..i'd like the plate of okra please"
what's okra used for????? |
What, you've never watched Okra Winphrey?
The optimal time to pick okra pods is when they are the size of "puppy peckers".
The word gumbo comes from the Bantu kigombo meaning okra. The plant (in seeds) was brought to America by slaves as a survival measure. It
is prolific and easy to grow, especially in warm weather.
I may have been reluctant at my first encounter with boiled okra. But, Mom convinced me they were baby alligators with their heads cut off and I've
loved them ever since.
Gumbo Yaya, oui mon cher! Put a foot in it!
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Just thinking about it, me hace salivar. I'm going to post a recipe on that forum. Not Gumbo Yaya, a multi-ingredient version ("put a foot in it" is
an expression meaning add everything you got) but one from my favorite Coon Ass, Justin Wilson.
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This is actually the fruit of the plant
It has this hard red shell, then a green thing inside. It has never elongated to look like a regular okra
Any ideas....
[Edited on 9-13-2007 by bajajudy]
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Oh here is the flower
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bajajudy. That's weird? It doesn't really look like okra. Has been a while, but seems like the okra pods formed close to the stalk, sorta like
corn. Could it be a cross-pollinated hybrid?
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If this works you can see the one in the back with the green thing inside
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Tonight we are having fresh pink eyed peas from our garden and I am going to try to cook some of these weird things....
report to follow
[Edited on 9-13-2007 by bajajudy]
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Bob and Susan
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i tried some okra...
my sister made it
not for me...
you'll never hear me EVER go to the restraunt and say...
"i'd like a plate of OKRA please"
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I think I've seen pods like that in a 50's sci fi movie with Kevin McCarthy.
Has the mister been acting a little strange lately? If so..........
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Okra might be one of those "acquired taste" things?
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