Okra??

[CrealCritter]

I should have okra tomorrow - I have a 50 row so I should at least get something

 

[baymule]

Monday we bought another half bushel of okra, i put it up Tuesday. Our neighbor Robert was over yesterday lamenting that his wife won't put anything up, so I told him why didn't he do it himself? I said I'd teach him. DH called our favorite produce stand guy and he said he'd have a half bushel for Robert this morning.

We went to Walmart yesterday evening and found corn for 10 cents an ear! We bought 60 ears for us and 20 for Robert. So not only did he get okra lessons today, he learned how to make cream corn. I got started at 6:30 AM and had our corn put up by the time Robert got here. I had shucked and washed his corn, so i showed him how to blanch it, cut it off the cob and scrape it. While he cut corn, i washed his okra. Then we made 8 pints of pickled okra. We cut okra and i showed him how I oven blanched it. He left with 6 bags of cream corn, 8 pints of pickled okra and 15 bags of 2 cups each of cut okra, ready for the freezer. We never quit, took a break or stopped. Snicker, snicker.......I worked his A$$ off...' Now he has more than a faint idea of how preserving the garden produce really works.

 

[CrealCritter]

<singing on> we've only just begun, to pick the okra. <singing off>

First few

Into the cornmeal you go

Into the frypan

Just a touch of salt - so good... This will put a big smile on a southern man's face, right here and right now!!!

 

[lcertuche]

Oldest DD loves okra pickled most of all. We all like it that way but she would literally not eat anything else if there was okra on the table.

I like a few sliced really thin and used in fried rice.

Of course we love fried okra. I sometimes will chop up summer squash, onions and green tomatoes and fry up with the okra when I don't have enough of any one thing to cook alone.

 

[Ellie Mae]

Wow i have missed alot!! Being a mom of 4 means i dnt always have time to talk. Sry!! Bt so far i have canned my okra, Frozen okra, and dehydrated okra!! We r up to geting adout 2lb a day and my plans r taller then me lol. (I am 5'9)

 

[CrealCritter]

We cut it into slices raw - coat with corn meal, load up freezer bags and freeze. But when it first comes in, I'll make a huge pot of seafood gumbo and my wife will pressure can it.

I really like deep fried okra so that's probably why we freeze it this way.

Okra is crazy... Got to pick it everyday and if you miss a day it gets too big to eat overnight.

 

[Wannabefree]

I fry mine, and put it in soups. I don't like it boiled. And yes on the cutting every day...I'm gonna have lots of seed

 

[Wannabefree]

Kind of green bean, kind of asparagus, very unique flavor..hard to describe...if it's fried till it's not slimy it's really good. I like mine a little crunchy.

 

[CrealCritter]

I fry mine, and put it in soups. I don't like it boiled. And yes on the cutting every day...I'm gonna have lots of seed

The seeds from those big ones are actually pretty good in chicken or turkey soup, they get soft after boiling a while and of course all things go in a big old huge pot of Brunswick stew Brunswick stew <--- what was that I just eat? Who cares! it's good!!!

 

[CrealCritter]

Kind of green bean, kind of asparagus, very unique flavor..hard to describe...if it's fried till it's not slimy it's really good. I like mine a little crunchy.

Me too - i like it coated in yellow cornmeal and fried to just a little bit crunchy. No need to make a batter using egg - plenty of slime in okra already to soak up the cornmeal.