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What is OKRA?
According to my Webster’s New World Dictionary with Student Handbook, okra is: 1. A tall plant with slender, ribbed, sticky green pods. 2. The pods, used as a cooked vegetable, in soups, etc.
So much for Webster’s, my wife says okra got it’s start in India. Seems the people from India living in our area now know little of okra. I’ve heard that it was brought to America by African Slaves. I don’t know how it got from India to Africa.
So much for Okra lore, okra is good boiled in vegetables such as peas, butter beans, and tomatoes. Of course, just add all of those together and have soup. If your vegetable soup doesn’t include okra, you just don’t have soup. You can’t have Jumbo with okra. Not everyone likes okra. It has a tendency, when boiled to become slimy, some of us like this attribute, some don’t. It is somewhat of an acquired taste. Sliced across the pod in about half inch (1.53233cm?) sections, breaded, and deep fried it looses the slime and is soooo goood.
So much for Okra eating, while growing, the plant makes a real good trellis for running vines like morning glory or cypress vines.
I’m told that being an okra producer and consumer is what has lead to me being such a good looking, intelligent gentleman, of course this last part could be because I was born that way and had nothing to do with okra.
Hope this has answered your question. If not, next time you are down this way, come by my house and we will let you sample some okra dishes. Be warned if you try okra and are one who has a taste for it, you may never go north again.
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