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Late lunch with some buttermilk chicken fingers and I used the same batter for the okra.
Home made honey mustard sauce for both.
Hate to see the season end!
Oh yeah, without pictures it never happened...
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Bon Appétit, but for me, batter dipped, deep fried, mustard slathered, still ain't enough to make Okra edible.
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The world should be so lucky!!!!!
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Fried catfish, fried okra, Cole slaw and hush puppies is haute cuisine for this honorary hillbilly.
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Fried okra, fresh tomatoes, and bacon could keep me going forever.
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An enterprising farmer invented an okra that does not produce flatulence.........it's called Okra Wind-free!
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Finger likin' good!! Good pickled too.
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Love fried okra. My old granny used to fix it using okra she picked fresh on the farm. She would make corn bread then thin the batter bit and dip the okra and fry them up in bacon grease. Fond memories of living in the Texas panhandle some 60 years ago.
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You can have my share of okra. One of my old hunting buddies is an undertaker. He was always making okra tomatoe soup he was real proud of.
He got mad at me when I questioned if that was really okra due to recent fat ladies death.
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Have tried frozen and occasional fresh.
But out here I’m really out of the Zone for good Okra!
Yours looks good!
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Don't knock okra, it's finger licking good. :-) It will bear until frost if you keep it cut.

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Seems all the okra haters are from the North. Maybe just a taste you
grow up with and not having any fresh okra.
I eat it fried, in stews, jumbo, or raw. My 5 year old grand daughter and
I like to pick and eat the tender pods while in the garden.
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Grew up in Ks. Mom had a big garden, but no okra, never heard of it. I moved to the south and came to like it, fried or pickled. Mom now grows it and cooks it for me when I visit. I like it fried best.
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Used to go eat at a local church supper when I was in the 82d at Fort Bragg and those ladies fried okra that had to come from heaven!
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Seems all the okra haters are from the North. Maybe just a taste you grow up with ......
Yeah, probably a regional thing, but been living in seven southern states more than two decades overall, and okra always reminds me of phlegm.
Another regional thing I've not been able to appreciate is "Boiled Peanuts". Like them every other way, but boiled is just inedible.

It's okay though, youse guys make some killer pulled pork.


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Boiled Okra... Easy to eat... Just lean your head back and it slides right down.... No swallowing needed....
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I have not had any in a very long time. It is hard to find in my area,sometimes I'll find a bag of frozen okra. I like it just fine.
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Okra, boiled peanuts, and grits is how we could find the spies from "Up North" at meal time during the War of Yankee Aggression
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Just had some that was in the garden a few days ago. Sliced it thin, put it in with bacon and fresh Lima beans. Mmmm good.

I’ll have Okra for quite a while yet. Y’all don’t be jealous.
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I was born and grew up in Texas. I love okra in many ways, but boiled okra is where I draw the line, the slime and mucous is the deal breaker.
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It is also a good source of potassium and calcium and is high in antioxidants, fiber, and vitamin C. The oil from okra is high in good fat (unsaturated) such as oleic and linoleic acids. Popular in dishes around the world, okra is renowned as a superfood.
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It is also a good source of potassium and calcium and is high in antioxidants, fiber, and vitamin C. The oil from okra is high in good fat (unsaturated) such as oleic and linoleic acids. Popular in dishes around the world, okra is renowned as a superfood.
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Born and raised in them there hills of Southern West Virginia. We ate just about everything you can think of...except okra. I first tried it in soup. I'm told that's where I went wrong.
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True, lots of folks like it boiled. I eat it, but it's not my favorite. Walmart sells a large bag of sliced and battered frozen okra, that we really like. Grandson's like it.

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Fried okra at Lambert's in Sikeston courtousy of Muss Muggins. One of the highlights of 2018.
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Fried green tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, okra, ect really makes no difference. They are just there to hold the breading together. I’m good for about anything but I hate boiled stuff like okra, cabbage broccoli, ect. It’s all like sheep snot. Anything thrown in hot bacon grease is tolerable.
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The batter makes a big difference with me. We batter with nothing more than corn meal, and love it. I'll always pass up Okra with the breaded batter. Another southern goodie that isn't popular up North is black-eyed peas. Now, combine them with some fresh corn meal breaded Okra, a couple slices of vine ripened tomatoes and some thick sliced bacon and you have a meal to kill for.
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Fried okra, green tomatoes, squash, taters, along with some cornbread, peas or beans of almost any variety, fresh corn, homemade biscuits, sweet tea. Deep fried fish fillets, a young rabbit or squirrel battered and fried, a deer roast cooked in the crock pot........

It makes me drool just thinking about it. The real good stuff don't come from the grocery store. :-)

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Mom fried okra in iron skillet , don't how she did it . She may have used half flour/cornmeal and vegetable oil
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I had an old Navy buddy that showed me how to eat grits.... Lots of salt, pepper, butter and gravy. SPBG might even make okra palatable, but I draw the line at liver.......
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The folks in Cleveland, Mississippi are plumb serious about their okra.

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Definitely of Yankee origin with Western influence and the only way I have found Okra edible is when it was used in Crawfish Etouffe I had the pleasure of eating in Louisiana. I mistakenly thought it was used to thicken and was educated promptly by the cook. I was then taught about File powder given to early settlers by the Native Peoples. I eat everything and dislike very little, growing up poor in the North we ate a lot of taters and whatever meat we could get our hands on. Root crops were big here and I don't put parsnips and rutabegas very high on the list either but there is always a way to make something edible. You can take virtually anything and cook it with butter or bacon and make it edible. One of my stepdads was from Arkansas, he grew a plant called Poke in their garden, fried with bacon and onions, excellent. I would much rather eat the greens of turnips and nearly anything else than the root crop that wasn't a tuber like a tater. But Okra....You could take cheesy grits and slice up Okra real thin and not ruin the grits buy why? I love Southern cooking with the exception of Okra, I suppose it ain't truly Southern if Okra ain't there somewhere but its just flat lost on me. Some folks up North feel the same way about our favorites like Asparagus, Brussel's Sprouts, Cabbage (of any kind) but we don't have anything that approaches Okra for inedibility. I'd rather eat Dandelion Greens, Nettles, Cattail Root, Camas Bulbs, Fiddleback Ferns, just about any Mushroom. If forced by starvation I would bend to the will of my stomach and eat them otherwise besides the "No Thank You" bite I am out.
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