Okra. What's your fave?
@1creekgirl (44560)
United States
October 20, 2019 5:09pm CST
Years ago my husband grew okra in our garden and it was always so delicious and fresh.
I hated picking it because it's prickly, but it was worth it. We haven't grown any for a long time...I would just buy the frozen breaded okra and fry that.
But now that anything with gluten is a no-no, that's off the menu.
Last week I found chopped frozen plain okra and realized I could fry it just like I used to fry okra using corn meal with salt and pepper in hot oil.
I cooked it and it was sooo good, almost (but not quite) as good as from the garden. I popped those little nuggets like candy!
Now, my question is: do you like okra? And if you do, do you fry it or boil it? To the extent that I love it fried, the polar opposite is true about boiling it. Too slimy for me.
I know this is a life changing discussion, but thank goodness not everything in life is so serious. We wouldn't survive long if it were.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
21 Oct 19
LOVE, love, and love okra. I eat it all ways cooked and I put it in my veggie soup.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
21 Oct 19
Fresh from the garden is the absolute best, isn't it?
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
22 Oct 19
@1creekgirl Yes and another way I learned to cook it was fry whole with the end off, drain and dress with garlic and lime juice, that is sooooo good.
@Namelesss (3364)
• United States
21 Oct 19
LOL, pop them like candy? So reminds me of me and my boy on movie night. One son and dad popped pop corn while the other one and me pop fried okra. Loved it. I don't necessarily like it boiled (okay, can't stand it) BUT I love it in soups with tomatoes as the acid in the tomatoes takes away all the slime.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
21 Oct 19
I didn't know that about the tomatoes and the slime.
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@Namelesss (3364)
• United States
22 Oct 19
@1creekgirl It really works. I wouldn't eat tomatoes and okra in rice till one day I decided to try it. Not slimy at all and so good.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
21 Oct 19
You should try it sliced, mixed with corn meal and fried.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
21 Oct 19
You truly don't know what you're missing. But it has to be fresh and fried crispy in corn meal.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
20 Oct 19
I haven't had okra in a while. I know fried okra is a thing and I enjoyed it. It is in these wrap things that I think come from starbucks that I really like as well. So yeah, okra isn't a common thing here but I enjoy it when it happens!
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@Dyvette16 (4299)
• United States
21 Oct 19
@1creekgirl I will def have to give a try some day (:
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
20 Oct 19
No I do not like anything about okra, I threw away the one they sent me in the misfits market box!!
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
21 Oct 19
Girl, you don't know what you're missing!
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
21 Oct 19
@1creekgirl lol I'm stopping by your house on the way to Florida and I can try good okra cause I have never had good one yet!!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
21 Oct 19
double battered'n fried, purty please! one 'f lives cruel tricks that i can no longer partake'n such. okra 'tis a lot like zucchini, jest a few plants'n yer set fer a year, lol. used to bread'n freeze lots back'n the day. icky, that slimy schtuff. my papaw 'twas fond 'f 't. ne'er could get 't choked down myself.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
21 Oct 19
@1creekgirl yepperz, crispy 'n dipped'n cream gravy, lol. sigh.. yes ma'am, 'tis the crohn's. i could prolly get by with jest a piece 'r 2, but'cha know such's impossible!
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
21 Oct 19
I feel the same. When it's fried crispy, it's better than candy to me! Sure sorry it's off limits to you now. Is that because of the Crohn's?
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
22 Oct 19
Since it's not grown fresh right now, you could buy it chopped and frozen at the grocery store. Toss it with yellow corn meal (not self rising), salt and pepper, then fry it in hot oil until browned and crispy. I don't deep fry it, just enough in the pan to get it crispy with the corn meal. Hope you like it!
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
22 Oct 19
@1creekgirl Does it need to be fried? I don't eat fried food.
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
20 Oct 19
When Jay and I first got married(29 years ago), I'd never eaten okra. My mother hated it, so she never fixed okra with our meals. Down south, Jay's father grew okra and now, I love it! The whole frozen okra, I microwave it done. The breaded sliced okra, I fry it to a golden brown. It's my favorite vegetable!
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@freelancermariagrace (29342)
• Philippines
21 Oct 19
I love okra. I just boil it and put some lemon
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
21 Oct 19
@freelancermariagrace I just use salt and pepper, it's delicious!
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
21 Oct 19
I think I could eat it in soup, but probably not beans. Do you fry it in corn meal or ?
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
21 Oct 19
@1creekgirl Yes corn meal and sometimes soak it in a beaten egg first.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
22 Oct 19
It's a green pod veggie that's really good fried.
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@Starkinds (32737)
• India
21 Oct 19
In my Kitchen garden my mother also grow okra and I love the colour of green.
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
22 Oct 19
I lived in Memphis for 10 years so I LOVE fried Okra!!!
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@Marilynda1225 (91086)
• United States
22 Oct 19
I'm not really fond of okra but maybe if I had it fried I would like it better
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
22 Oct 19
There's a world of difference when it's fried instead of boiled. Not slimy at all that way.
@LindaOHio (222302)
• United States
21 Oct 19
I'll eat okra. As long as it's not too slimy it's OK for me. I don't make it; but I've eaten it out in restaurants, buffets, etc.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
21 Oct 19
It's not a good dish for a buffet because it's better when you fry it and eat it right then.
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