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Okra - A Great Summer Vegetable
This is one of my
family’s favorite summertime
vegetable! Most
people know it as a
battered and deep fried delicacy – capable of clogging any
good Southerner’s
arteries – or as an important ingredient in gumbos. However, okra is so much
more than that. Okra
originally grew wild in Africa and is
one of the few vegetables that grows very well in the heat of the
summer, even
here in When we had our garden, we
loved okra so much that we could
never grow enough to have it as a side dish for dinner.
We always had to combine it with our other
garden vegetables. I
loved to go outside
just prior to dinner and pick some okra, tomatoes and peppers to
sauté together
with some onion. I
did however become
very spoiled when we owned our own produce market.
I used to love market days which were the
days my husband would return from his overnight trips to the large
wholesale
market across the state with our shop’s 3 day supply of
produce. There was
nothing as beautiful to me as
opening the case of just-picked okra and gazing upon the bounty it
contained. I found
that we liked it so
much, even my largest skillet would not accommodate enough okra to
quench our
appetites. Often,
we would be left
negotiating for the last of it. It
was
amazing to see what the children were willing to trade for a few more
slices. Once you
have enjoyed fresh, crisp okra
sliced and slightly browned (without breading) in a cast iron skillet,
you will
have experienced a little bit of heaven and understand our love affair
with this
summer time delicacy. Click here for a
delicious Corn, Okra and Tomato side dish. Nutritional info: Serving Size: about 8 pods Calories: 60 % of U.S RDA Vitamin A 20% |
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