Okra

Homegrown Alabama okra. Nectar of the gods.

I Love Okra

I love it boiled, I love it fried, but now I love it DRIED!  Thank you Cindy and Charlie Thigpen for letting me roam your great Garden Gallery at the Pepper Place in search of photos. Not only that, I got to bring some home!

Put Some South In Your Mouth

Purple hull peas and okra. That's what's for dinner!

A New Home

I stopped by M Power's Community Garden in Avondale a few days ago and was fascinated with the dried okra pods.  BTW, if you don't know okra, you're not from around here.  When I loaded my photos, I was delighted to see a critter had made a new home.

Gourmet okra?.....who knew!

Well leave it to the cute couple that owns  Snow's Bend Farms to come up with some fancy okra that we haven't seen around here!  Maybe today I'll buy a handful of that nice red and purple variety and give it a try. You just never know what you'll find at the Pepper Place!

TWO THINGS CHALLENGE: Product/Label

Just like the LABEL says, Buy Fresh, Buy Local - Alabama.  Well that's the truth!   You really can't beat the fruits and vegetables grown right here by local farmers.  The PRODUCT ?  Some of you from around the globe might be scratching your head over this one. It's a vegetable that most folks around here either love or hate.  Chalk me up in the LOVE column.  It's good ole southern OKRA!  We eat if fried (nectar of the gods) or boiled (the word slimey is sometimes mentioned along with that).  We also eat it in gumbo and with corn, tomatoes and lima beans. That would be your succotash.   I loved finding this batch of okra displayed in a French wine box.  The lowly okra has climbed the food chain perhaps?

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 The Tune du Jour is " Hang on Little Tomato" by Pink Martini

( I know I play this song a lot,  but tomatoes go with okra.  What else would I play???)