[Sca-cooks] Okra - Seasonal Foods

[kingstaste at mindspring.com]

Actually, the fast-cook method is more to my liking, I really dislike the
thickening qualities of okra in gumbo.  I much prefer File (sassafras) for
that.
The curry powder sounds promising, though.  I'll keep that in mind.
Christianna



The first way is what you're doing when you bread it with cornmeal (I use
masa harina, and spice it with a bit of _good_curry powder). It's absolutely
at its best when you fry it this way, with sliced and similarly breaded and
fried green tomatoes.

The second way, which might be more to your taste, is to slow cook it, using
it as a thickener for a soup or stew- it's one of your basic ingredients in
a gumbo, for that reason. When you slow cook it, until it dissolves, it
really does add nice body and flavor to a soupy sort of thing.

The reason many people don't like it is because they manage to cook it just
to the slimy stage- I don't like it that way ;-)

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

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