Quote from: Jin on September 15, 2017, 02:09:09 PM
Canned spinach always made me gag.
Now that I am embracing my girly side, I find that I don't really gag easily.
Okra is pretty much like slugs picked up off the sidewalk after a rain, and then boiled in snot.
Okra.. omg yuck. it not the putting it in your mouth. It getting it to your mouth that takes any value away. Go harvest that weed. It matures in August. The only thing moving or making a noise is crickets. Air is dead still. Sun beats down to suck every ounce of water out of everything this side of a cactus.
You have to carry a sharp blade just to get it off the plant. You gotta wear long sleeves and long pants because it is cover in little spiny things that will slice you up. So just to get it in the basket you have sweated off 10 lbs and its still 10 AM, get enough cuts for a year and enjoy a bit of quality time in a field. FTS.
Then back to the house while someone calls the ambulance for medically induced hydration. So you avoided a day in the hospital and its not even lunch time yet. YEA MFer. Get to cutting that Okrie up. Same knife to cut off is use to slice those tender delicacies up while still avoiding those poking spiny things. God, life is good. Good news foodies, there is some sort of death inducing slimy stuff that is released when sliced and diced. Not sure of it actual composition but it seems to have a toxic glow to it. And it is slimy. Slimy enough to slide Pharaohs pyramid block a 100 feet from one Okrie juice.
Now time for grandma to get to work. Beat a fresh egg. Break out the Hoovers fine ground corn meal. Dunk. Swish in corn meal and then promptly drop into 3 day old 9 times used over heated hog lard. Not the good store bought stuff but grandpa rendered lard. The reallly good stuff. It spits and sputters. Hot liquid lard flys everywhere. Remarkably, it has GPS tracking and finds that one tiny place of flesh that you have that is exposed. Usually near the eye. OMG fun now.
Granny yells..quick quick quick get the strainer spoon. OMG, the intensity. Where oh where is the spoon. Dig through the drawer. Not the spatula, not the fish filet knife. OUCH. Throw the jar filling funnel across the double wide. Not that spoon, moron. That's the pea dippin' spoon. The strainer spoon. Gotta find it now. The fresh sh.. okra is overcooking. Only city idiots mistake the mashed potato spoon for a strainer spoon. There it is. Wedged under the tea strainer. Grab it and fling it to Granny just in time. She dips them wonderful(

) golden brown fried okrie out. Lay them out on paper towels like the gourmet cook at the truck stop does. And gives you that evil Granny look. You know that one that says you dodge a bullet but you did not dodge my opinion of YOU. You prefer the bullet, but them okrie are ready to get the chomp on.
You only want to go out on the porch and sweat and wait for Juniors Fancy Pizza to arrive.