Okra Recipes – Alphabet of Vegetables
IN A RUSH? Prefer Another Vegetable? Skip Skip Straight to the Recipes or Switch to the A-Z of Vegetables . So I took a little poll about okra on Facebook today and was much shocked , I mean excited to discover so many fellow okra fans, not scientific or anything but still! I'm a recent convert myself: when Susan from Fat Free Vegan wrote a guest post here in 1996 for Chickpea Gumbo , I commented, not so wittily, that "... now maybe A Veggie Venture won't have to cook any of those slimy guys". Was I ever missing out, eating okra fresh from the garden makes such a difference! OKRA: THE BASICS Pronounced [OH-kruh]. Also called Lady's Fingers, for the bright green finger-shaped tapered seedpods. The Season. In the Midwest, the okra season is "late summer" when home gardens spit out okra like bullets. In the South, fresh okra is available year round. Good news, however, frozen okra is excellent, although best used in dishes where the okra its