How about OKRA?

[gwalchmai]

No, I don't mean the talk-show host. I mean the greatest vegetable Africa ever gave us (other than Charlize Theron, perhaps).

What's your favorite fried okra recipe? We chop it up into 3/4" sections, dip it in eggs, roll it in flour with a little pepper (sometimes corn meal) and fry it up, just this side of crisp. My wife burns it til it's crunchy, but I don't like that so much.

And no, I don't like garden slugs.

[HellsBelle]

No, I don't mean the talk-show host. I mean the greatest vegetable Africa ever gave us (other than Charlize Theron, perhaps).

What's your favorite fried okra recipe? We chop it up into 3/4" sections, dip it in eggs, roll it in flour with a little pepper (sometimes corn meal) and fry it up, just this side of crisp. My wife burns it til it's crunchy, but I don't like that so much.

And no, I don't like garden slugs.

I like it as you described above, with some onion and green tomato in it!

And pickled okra ain't too bad either provided that it has a red pepper stuck down in there to kick it up a notch!

[Steel Talon]

Fried in cornmeal served with a mess o' catfish or crappie:treerat: Never ever boiled :puke:

Peace
Steel Talon:coolgleamA:

[gwalchmai]

"a mess of crappie" - a lot of folks wouldn't appreciate that culinary delight.

But I am from the South. ;)

[sparky241]

no offense but:puke:

[jawjaboy]

Been eatin okry since I was in diapers. Honest. Love it.

Slice okry in 1/2" - 3/4" pieces.
Dust it in corn meal. Let it set 15 min. Dust it again.
Deep fry in 325-350 degree oil until desired browness has culminated.
Remove from oil wit a slotted hooter.
Let pieces drain oil and cool on paper towels a sec.
Salt til yo palate say OK.

Make yo tongue beat both a ya brains out. :yesnod: Dat da swamp way.

[MullahElRon]

No black pepper on yo okra jjb? Gots to have a bit...Mercy I'm hungry now. Where y'all get your fresh okra there? We a long way from the good hot growing season. It do love the summertime like no other plant. Well, them plants for eatin...

[Pitmaster]

I'll pass on the fried okra, but I do like fried pickles.

[jawjaboy]

No black pepper on yo okra jjb? Gots to have a bit...Mercy I'm hungry now. Where y'all get your fresh okra there? We a long way from the good hot growing season. It do love the summertime like no other plant. Well, them plants for eatin...

Nevahh saw a need fer it Mullah. Okry too good witout it! :yesnod:

[gwalchmai]

Where y'all get your fresh okra there? We a long way from the good hot growing season. We sometimes resort to the pre-breaded flash-froze stuff. It not like comin out da garden but it better than just memory.

Also, Church's Fried Chicken serve up some fine okra if you got a cook dat knows what she doin and don't rurn it. Captain D know his way aroun a okra bucket, too.

[Steve Koski]

Okra - The other white meat.

[HellsBelle]

The University where I went is fondly called the "Fighting Okra". I have this tee as well as the same image on a sweatshirt:

http://www.bkstr.com/ProductDisplay/10001-10003-10163-4000000000000142602-1?demoKey=d

[creekwalker]

Fried in cornmeal served with a mess o' catfish or crappie:treerat: Never ever boiled :puke:

Peace
Steel Talon:coolgleamA:
True. Add in lot's of black pepper as well. The only way I'll eat boiled okra is in a soup, stew or even better gumbo.

HellsBelle, you'd fit right in at some of the fish fries I've attended around here. My dad loved pickeled okra, my wife, daughter and mother in law do to.

cw

[HellsBelle]

True. Add in lot's of black pepper as well. The only way I'll eat boiled okra is in a soup, stew or even better gumbo.

HellsBelle, you'd fit right in at some of the fish fries I've attended around here. My dad loved pickeled okra, my wife, daughter and mother in law do to.

cw

My mom and I still do some home canning. I can remember the days of us picking the garden and canning for weeks on end. We still do pickles, green beans, tomatos, chow chow, salsa and pizza sauce. We've cut out doing okra and relish as well as jellies and jams (which are a real PITA) but used to do those too.

These days we fight the deer every year for what's been planted outside.

[MullahElRon]

Chow chow's all too rare here in AZ... :confused:

[MullahElRon]

Nevahh saw a need fer it Mullah. Okry too good witout it! :yesnod:
Black pepper on everthang must be a Texas thang. Granny fed us right...

[Steel Talon]

True. Add in lot's of black pepper as well. The only way I'll eat boiled okra is in a soup, stew or even better gumbo.

HellsBelle, you'd fit right in at some of the fish fries I've attended around here. My dad loved pickeled okra, my wife, daughter and mother in law do to.

cw

Hey CW..

Black pepper is always a given!!! I can't do without it...Agree with you about Gumbo...

For soups and stews I lean more towards mexican styles.

(Great Avater BTW)

Peace
Steel Talon:coolgleamA:

[HellsBelle]

Chow chow's all too rare here in AZ... :confused:

Are you saying you don't know what chow chow is?

[MullahElRon]

No, I said: Chow chow's all too rare here in AZ... :confused:

[Steel Talon]

Are you saying you don't know what chow chow is?


Its dog, best served rare....

ST~

[SWAMPMASTER]

Sorry but black pepper yek

Now white pepper and we can talk

[RustyFN]

Are you saying you don't know what chow chow is?
OK I'll say it, what's chow chow? And yes a pepper added to anything is always better, the hotter the better.
Rusty

[MullahElRon]

Man Rusty, there's so many different kinds, made with different vegetable and spice ingredients, from different parts of the country...It's a pickled relish, from sweet to hot and everthang in between'. Good to dress up your beans or whatever you feel like, or put some on the side with a meal. Try to find some homemade chow chow on your travels. I've had some good commercial brands from Texas, but it's all over really among those dat know.

[Sidhe]

Y'all are killing me.

I think I'm going to have to locate okra this weekend. My husband will probably fall over. Kid's might eat it if I don't tell them what it is.

My best friend will want to kill me though if I make it when she's not around. LOL

[RustyFN]

OK I Googled chow chow and got this.
http://www.petcity.gr/images/products/chow_chow.jpg

Ya'll got some splainin to do.
Rusty

[jawjaboy]

Ya killin me Rus! ;) Chow Chow relish, try dat!

http://www.mtnlaurel.com/Recipes/chowchow.htm

[xtimberman]

I dearly love fried okra if it's cooked properly, and usually it's not! :smilewinkgrin:
When cooked any other way, you have to beware of the slime.

If you're not supposed to eat deep fried foods, there's another way to cook it battered up in your favorite manner and avoid the slime. You can saute it in a skillet with a few Tbsp. olive oil, but you have to cook it hot and fast like you would flash fry raw vegetables in a wok. Keep the okra moving around in the skillet and don't let it simmer in the juice that's drawn from the cooking okra or it'll quickly get soggy and slimy. It's lots easier to do this on a gas cooktop than an electric.

The University where I went is fondly called the "Fighting Okra". I have this tee as well as the same image on a sweatshirt:

http://www.bkstr.com/ProductDisplay/10001-10003-10163-4000000000000142602-1?demoKey=d


Delta State U. - That is a lovely college campus - one of the prettiest in the whole country. My sister graduated from there in the 1970s.

xtm

[Steel Talon]

OK I Googled chow chow and got this.
http://www.petcity.gr/images/products/chow_chow.jpg

Ya'll got some splainin to do.
Rusty

Please re-review my above post # 20

Mmmmmmm

Peace
Steel Talon:coolgleamA:

[HellsBelle]

I dearly love fried okra if it's cooked properly, and usually it's not! :smilewinkgrin:
When cooked any other way, you have to beware of the slime.

If you're not supposed to eat deep fried foods, there's another way to cook it battered up in your favorite manner and avoid the slime. You can saute it in a skillet with a few Tbsp. olive oil, but you have to cook it hot and fast like you would flash fry raw vegetables in a wok. Keep the okra moving around in the skillet and don't let it simmer in the juice that's drawn from the cooking okra or it'll quickly get soggy and slimy. It's lots easier to do this on a gas cooktop than an electric.




Delta State U. - That is a lovely college campus - one of the prettiest in the whole country. My sister graduated from there in the 1970s.

xtm

Great explaining on the chow chow...

I was at DSU from 1991-1994. I was there the year the ice storm came through and closed the campus for 10 straight days. We lost of lot of trees on the quad that year.

[Dinky]

Ask Okie about Okra, he is a Okra Eating Champion:yikes:

[CRBs_icandy]

I don't care too much for okra, but my Mom would fry okra, squash, and taters and it was really good. I'm a sucker for fried taters anyways, along with the okra...it was tolerable.

[jawjaboy]

Ask Okie about Okra, he is a Okra Eating Champion:yikes:

Okie a fine feller in my book. One a da best. Statured a bit more 'n me, as in I a be da runt here. But I almost feel like I could go toe ta toe wit him on eat'n okry now! All categories prepared, boiled, breaded fried, corn meal fried, stewed, corn meal stewed, etc, etc. Yessir...I a take him out! :sifone:

[MullahElRon]

Why you wanna start at the top and work down fo' jjb? You gots to train or you gonna blow somethin' out. okie's got papers and such.

[jawjaboy]

okie's got papers and such

Honest? Papers even?

[MullahElRon]

http://i31.tinypic.com/2llmwpc.jpg

[MullahElRon]

Don't even think 'bout gettin' into a post off with him:

http://i32.tinypic.com/2ltiq7o.jpg


Tellin' you jawja, walk away from this one.

[AlPackin]

Don't even think 'bout gettin' into a post off with him:

http://i32.tinypic.com/2ltiq7o.jpg


Tellin' you jawja, walk away from this one.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[jawjaboy]

:incazzato:

[cvfl]

I put okra in my Brunswick Stew at Christmas remember?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/2206656089_ced6676c7c.jpg

[jawjaboy]

Yep! I remember! Good lookin pot a Brunswick(GA) Stew. :sifone:

[hugginsvilleH&A]

like hells belles with fried green tomato and onions, hmmmmmmmmmmm

[gwalchmai]

Mmm, fried me up a pot full last night.