When Jack was a kid, during meat rationing in the war, he ate gizzards, liver, and fried eggplant.
Jack grew up.
Jack grew up.
Fried Okra
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Kayak Jack said:
Just about every other gas station here has a "hot counter" where you can buy deep fried gizzards, deep fried livers and fried eggplant. If you're lucky you can get there while there's still turkey necks, too God, i love the South.
piper
islandpiper said:
Same down here but there is one chicken joint ( Famous Recipe ) in Sanford that has the best there is. It is a MUST STOP when ever I'm up there. There fried chicken livers and a tub of that peppery gravy to dip the livers in are the best I have ever had. Then along with smashed taters , cold slaw and especially there biscuits , "O" those biscuits.
Chuck.
Don't tell Wannabe, but I found that the deep fried okra was best if i cracked one end open and squeezed all the green stuff inside and just ate the shell. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: piper
islandpiper said:
They fried the whole pod? That's not the best way to do it. It should be sliced cross-ways in about 1/2-5/8" pieces, then breaded and fried. Much better that way - crisper and none of the green slime some folks don't like. Yum!
Mike
Thanks, Mike. I saved the .PFD file.
Piper most of the candidates are of the combination type--the spineless and brainless variety.
Piper most of the candidates are of the combination type--the spineless and brainless variety.
Mike, they did cut it into 1/2" slices, across the fruit. I'm thinking that 1/16" might have been OK, too. :lol: piper
Your descriptions of fried okra exactly match your descriptions of fried fish. Add LOTS of tasty breading and fry hell out of it. That way, you don't have to taste whatever the stuff is in the middle, cause the good flavor of oily, spicy breading covers it up.
I love fried okra and pickled okra. I could eat a basket of both for a meal. I usually get fried okra at Cracker Barrel and I get pickled okra from my sister who grows it. I need to learn how to pickle it myself because I usually go through the jars really fast.
I don't know if I'm going to get any okra this year or not. It comming along very slow. That's OK though. Last year after eating the heck out of it and giving it away I still put about 12 gallon zip loc bags of in the freezer. If I don't get one pod of okra this year I will probally have enough to last to next year.
Bob
Bob
I got two little pods of Okra back in 1975 and I'm not out of Okra yet. It lasts a long time around here.
piper
piper