Jackson Jambalaya

The flower bud of an okra is very beneficial for us. Baby okra is ok. Unpicked days old okra is good for basket weaving.

Cut the okra into chunks, season with olive oil and tony chachere's, throw in 400 degree oven until well browned. Enjoy.

I love Okra any way I've ever had it: boiled, roasted, fried, in Gumbo especially. I tell my wife to enjoy Okra in Gumbo because one can merely sip the edge of a spoonful and the rest will follow like slime down one's gullet. Okra is a gastronomic orgasm.

11:16, you made me crack up laughing! I can't do boiled okra.

I love fried okra! Split it lengthwise, coat in corn meal, fry up. Yuuuum!

I first read this as "is Opra controversial?" Yes, she is.

Is it just me? Or has Okra changed? It's easily my favorite veg (or used to be). However, my body now INSTANTLY reacts - not in an allergic reaction, but with severe upset stomach.

But thanks for the recipe!

1:15, I only buy my okra at the farmers market (Ms Brenda's stand). Never had a problem with it. It may be the grease that's upsetting your stomach. I use to fry okra and green tomatoes and suck them down. Now, I can still fry them but I use a roll of paper towels to get every ounce of grease off and I eat them with potatoes (starch) and that stopped the grease from upsetting mine.

I make Paul Prudhomme's okra gumbo recipe. It takes 7 cups of fresh okra to make the roux instead of a traditional oil and flour roux. I love okra anyway it is cooked, and the really small pods can be eaten raw with salt and pepper.

I've always enjoyed fried okra ... but It's never once ignited an orgasm.

In a Colorado Fall in my salad days, I and several roommates rode motorcycles from Denver up to Broomfield to a roommate's family farm and picked squash, corn and the Okra that grew along the irrigation ditches. We returned with backpacks full of the vegetables and had a feast of them, roasted and boiled and sauteed, all slathered in butter. Then sat out on our massive stone front porch and played banjo and guitar. Even though I could only manage 6 chords on my banjo, the entire day is a forever memory.
30 years later I had the intense pleasure of Seafood Okra Gumbo in Meridian and I was transfixed with Okra-Gumbo lust and learned to cook it: roux, filet powder (I use both), shrimp shell stock and all. Ahh-Yee!

You can cook okra in the microwave. You just need to experiment on the time to cook it depending on the power of the microwave and the amount being cooked.

Here are my two favorite okra recipes:

1) Don't get within 100 feet of okra, picked or especially not un-picked.

2) If gifted okra, politely accept and sincerely thank. Put okra in 55 gallon drum of undiluted Round-Up. Obtain connex box (a 20' will do). Put barrel in center of connex. Fill connex with high-strength concrete, with Round-Up additive, JIC. Allow to cure. Hire crane to load connex onto truck. Have connex delivered to nearest port and shipped half-way to faraway land. Somewhere mid-ocean, deepest part preferred, shove connex overboard.

Jerry Clower said he ate so much boiled “okry” his socks wouldn’t stay up.