bigwheelzip
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I spin also. The doctor calls it Vertigo.
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bigwheelzip
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Yup, I reckon I'm double-southern now. Grandparents were south Italy Neapolitans, and now I'm a transplant to the gentille south. Just haven't gotten the knack for preparing palatable Okra yet.Southern Italian?
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greenmachine
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okra [oh-kruh]
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noun
1. a shrub, Abelmoschus esculentus, of the mallow family, bearing beaked pods.
2. the pods, used in soups, stews, etc.
3. a dish made with the pods.
4. a slimy disgusting vegetable to be avoided at all costs
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noun
1. a shrub, Abelmoschus esculentus, of the mallow family, bearing beaked pods.
2. the pods, used in soups, stews, etc.
3. a dish made with the pods.
4. a slimy disgusting vegetable to be avoided at all costs
PALATABLE OKRA INSTRUCTIONS-Just haven't gotten the knack for preparing palatable Okra yet.
Step one: open trash can.
Step two: Grab all the Okra you have on hand
Step three: deposit Okra in trash can
Step four: close trash can
I love me a mess of fried okra, but hated picking the stuff.
Grandma would make up some drop biscuits with squirrel gravy, and the okra would be fried in bacon grease. No wonder Grampa had heart problems!
Grandma would make up some drop biscuits with squirrel gravy, and the okra would be fried in bacon grease. No wonder Grampa had heart problems!
SW MP15
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OH I'm So Freaking Mad!
Grandson has been planning on going to see his so called mother for a month. He was going to spend the 4th with her. So he just called his other Grandmother to make arrangements for tomorrow's transfer. We have to drive him an hour to meet grandperson (she don't do anything with or for him either) so I'll refer to her as grandperson! And she has to take him the other hour and half. Because his so called mother is under house arrest and on bond for her 3rd DUI and a bunch of other drug charges, including probation violations.
So he calls his grandperson and during the conversation, I hear him kind'a get quite and just kept saying OK, OK, Love you too. Conversation over.
So I asked what time we're meeting grandperson. He said I'm not going. He gets done this way all the time. And I said that's OK, we're all going to a King's Island next week on vacation and that trip is for your early birthday present at the end of July.
So I could tell he was bummed out about so called mother. So I gently asked what's the matter? He said she got arrested Tuesday. I didn't act interested, but was dieing to know. Then he said her probation lady came to the house for a random probation check and the house smelled like pot. And arrested her and another girl, that was there.
All I said was, I hope she's OK and gets some help! I never talk bad about her to him. But I hate her guts! And she knows I hate her, but I have to keep it civil for his sake. I get into it with her about every 3 months.
She's on something like 4 years probation already, not counting the latest drug related DUI that she hasn't went to court on yet. I think she goes in August for that one? And hope no one bails her out, if they even can bail her out this time.
I hope they throw the book at her!
So I hear him call Wifey at work a few minutes later and I could hear it in his voice, he was about to cry. And told her. I know he loves his mother. I want him to always Love his so called mother.
But such a sweet child has to deal with this stuff. NO, child should have to hear or deal with this stuff about their so called mother! My mother never got arrested! My children's mother never got arrested! Hell, wifey has only had one ticket in her life! Hell, I've only had 3 in 44 years of driving. I know stuff happens, but come on. His so called mothers rap sheet is 6 pages long, before this last stuff! And she's just 34. I've seen her rap sheet on the Internet!
Thank GOD he wasn't already up there when she got arrested!
And I guess that's why GOD put him in our lives, when she abandoned him when he was just 1 1/2 years old. I never thought @ 60 1/2 years old, I would be raising a almost 14 year old child. But, I thank GOD everyday for allowing him and his Dog (his birthday present 3 years ago) in our lives! And I'd guess he's the reason GOD kept me here after the motor cycle wreck. To take care of him! And OH Boy I do! I spoil him to the Earth's end. And I'm determined to live long enough to see him go to College!
Our Baby's, So Called Mother Rant Over! I just needed to get it off my chest. And know that allot of you are parents and grandparents. And would understand my frustration?
Thanks For Understanding!
Grandson has been planning on going to see his so called mother for a month. He was going to spend the 4th with her. So he just called his other Grandmother to make arrangements for tomorrow's transfer. We have to drive him an hour to meet grandperson (she don't do anything with or for him either) so I'll refer to her as grandperson! And she has to take him the other hour and half. Because his so called mother is under house arrest and on bond for her 3rd DUI and a bunch of other drug charges, including probation violations.
So he calls his grandperson and during the conversation, I hear him kind'a get quite and just kept saying OK, OK, Love you too. Conversation over.
So I asked what time we're meeting grandperson. He said I'm not going. He gets done this way all the time. And I said that's OK, we're all going to a King's Island next week on vacation and that trip is for your early birthday present at the end of July.
So I could tell he was bummed out about so called mother. So I gently asked what's the matter? He said she got arrested Tuesday. I didn't act interested, but was dieing to know. Then he said her probation lady came to the house for a random probation check and the house smelled like pot. And arrested her and another girl, that was there.
All I said was, I hope she's OK and gets some help! I never talk bad about her to him. But I hate her guts! And she knows I hate her, but I have to keep it civil for his sake. I get into it with her about every 3 months.
She's on something like 4 years probation already, not counting the latest drug related DUI that she hasn't went to court on yet. I think she goes in August for that one? And hope no one bails her out, if they even can bail her out this time.
I hope they throw the book at her!
So I hear him call Wifey at work a few minutes later and I could hear it in his voice, he was about to cry. And told her. I know he loves his mother. I want him to always Love his so called mother.
But such a sweet child has to deal with this stuff. NO, child should have to hear or deal with this stuff about their so called mother! My mother never got arrested! My children's mother never got arrested! Hell, wifey has only had one ticket in her life! Hell, I've only had 3 in 44 years of driving. I know stuff happens, but come on. His so called mothers rap sheet is 6 pages long, before this last stuff! And she's just 34. I've seen her rap sheet on the Internet!
Thank GOD he wasn't already up there when she got arrested!
And I guess that's why GOD put him in our lives, when she abandoned him when he was just 1 1/2 years old. I never thought @ 60 1/2 years old, I would be raising a almost 14 year old child. But, I thank GOD everyday for allowing him and his Dog (his birthday present 3 years ago) in our lives! And I'd guess he's the reason GOD kept me here after the motor cycle wreck. To take care of him! And OH Boy I do! I spoil him to the Earth's end. And I'm determined to live long enough to see him go to College!
Our Baby's, So Called Mother Rant Over! I just needed to get it off my chest. And know that allot of you are parents and grandparents. And would understand my frustration?
Thanks For Understanding!
kwselke
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When I was a teen I'd go crabbing and take my catch to my grandmother. She'd make okra and tomatoes, mix in lump Blue Crab meat, serve it over rice, and have cornbread on the side. I'd eat until I was one bite away from exploding.
It's OK if you do not like okra, that leaves more for me.
It's OK if you do not like okra, that leaves more for me.
Would that we could all live without family drama. Glad he has you....
bigwheelzip
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It seems the drift denizens north of the Mason-Dixon are not enamored of Okra. I'm inclined to agree, so far, but haven't thrown in the towel yet. When in Rome ...
Don't know about squirrel gravy but my husband had squirrel stew on his menu, before I came along, though bushy tailed rat is verboten at my table.
A local woman put some Red-eye Gravy on my grits. It's bacon fat, coffee, salt, and pepper. It tasted like a shortcut to heart problems.
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vonn
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Lunch time drift check and nothing better than good fried okra. Just have to find someone who knows how to cook okra and you will understand. Hang in there MP15.
RobertJ.
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I spin also. The doctor calls it Vertigo.
My doctor asked me if I suffer from dizzy spells. I told him no, I rather enjoy them.
You're doing right by your grandson, MP15 - he will remember that.
I spent a few years with my grandparents, until being adopted by a nice older Southern gentleman. I still remember my time with them fondly, and lessons on the farm were well-learned.
I spent a few years with my grandparents, until being adopted by a nice older Southern gentleman. I still remember my time with them fondly, and lessons on the farm were well-learned.
bigwheelzip
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When the grands know you love them, and will move heaven and earth to aid them, it becomes a countdown to their age of majority. I pray you all succeed.
Roadtrash
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I love okra, fried, boiled I don't care I love okra. It's really good pickled.
kwselke
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shouldazagged
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Never a good idea. Talk radio is a pestilence, including the sports kind with grown men arguing endlessly about what six-foot-eight seventh-grade basketball player is a lock for the NBA.
As for okra, frying it with a light cornmeal breading till it's brown and crisp makes it nutty and sweet. Stewed with tomatoes--I use canned diced tomatoes with green chilis, a little white wine, minced shallot and a dash of Worcestershire sauce--it's very tasty and not at all slimy.
It's hugely popular in much Indian and African cooking, In fact, the word "gumbo" is derived from one of the African names for it, "quimbombo" (as rendered in Spanish in the Caribbean).
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kwselke
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Now I want fried okra too:
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