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     Ya'll have been talking about beets and how yucky they are.  I can think of something much, much worse and that's okra..  I never could stand the slimy stuff.  And for the life of me cannot figure out how anyone else could either.

You should try Okra patties, I think they are really good and the best way to fix Okra.
Frank

     For those folks that do manage to get that slimy stuff down--what do you do?  Hold a clothespin to you nose, shut your eyes, and hope that stuff slides thru your system doing 90 mph unti it hits the other end? ??? ??? ;D

I thought I didn't like okra either until I had some a neighbor had prepared.  She fried it with some other stuff and it was delicious.  I doubt if I will ever try to cook it.

I've got to stand up for Okra!  I don't like the "slimy" okra, but we really do like the okra that we get in cafeteria's, where it has a batter on it, and is probably deep fat fried!  It's probably really healthy, too!  I also like beets fixed a certain way, and carrots when fixed with a roast, and in vegetable soup, etc., etc., etc.  Did someone else say that "there really isn't a lot that I don't like?"  That would be me!

Yes!  I said that and I love pickled okra.  I'm not real fond of picking it.  Much better to pick it in the evenings than in the mornings.  I don't itch so much if I do it that way.  The other thing I love that so many people turn their noses up at is homemade sauerkraut.

Now you've found one that I can't stand.  Sauerkraut in any way or form.  It just sets my teeth on edge at the thought of it.  I do like cabbage, raw, cooked or whatever, except for the sauerkraut.

Wow, you are some picky people!  Pretty much give me any veggie and I've eaten it, and probably enjoy it.  My parents used to have a HUGE garden and grew a lot of different veggies.  I love pickled okra, and I'm glad that Poplar has it on their salad bar all the time.  I also like cooked okra, but I've found that it's better a little crunchy; not totally slimey.  I also enjoy it fried, too. 
I'm not a huge fan of sourkraut, but every once in a while on a good polish sausage is good.  My grandpa used to order sausage and sourkraut pizzas!  (My maiden name is Schmidt... )

sauerkraut and ribs are to die for.  I also have a wonderful recipe for kraut dip.

Well, guess what!  I like Sauerkraut, too!  I like to put some brown sugar in a skillet with the Sauerkraut, and "cook it down" to where there's very little liquid, and add polish sausage or hot dogs.  I don't think any of our children like Sauerkraut, though.  Of course, only one out of three of our children drink coffee, so "what do they know?"

I too like fried okra..........the crunchier the better..............One year I grew it and I did can it.........made
pickles.......added some hot-peppers and garlic to it and had to hide  some of the jars to last the winter.

Another way I like it was cooked it with tomato's and made a sauce and (I don't remember all the spices I added) but,
jalapano peppers and garlic and onions were in it...and this was so good, that even my picky eaters would eat it.
Went good on a cold day......just add the corn bread.

Last time I fixed polish sausage I added saurekraut to it and with the left overs ( for one person I do tend to eat left-overs)
I fixed me an acorn squash with butter and brown sugar and put the sausage in the center of the squash and feel that I invented a new dish.

That was my Thanksgiving meal come to think of and I must remember to buy another acorn when I go into town.
I grew beets and canned them too. Altho you do get stained doing them, nothing better and to harvard them is another way to use them.   This late at night and I am ready to eat.

Maybe I just better close down and go to bed.......LOL......there is always tomorrow. :D :D :) :)

Ooooh, I love sauerkraut fresh out of the can or jar, but I don't like it heated or on hot dogs or sausages.  I like the raw cabbage but not cooked cabbage.  I'll pass on okra in any from...................................

Oops, that last post should have been "in any form" just in case the spelling patrol is on active duty!!!!!!!

Well---------, since you have already caught it, I will just let it pass if you can.

My husband tells me that I'd like okra if I'd ever tasted some his grandma made.  The fact is though, that I had some of the slimy stuff once and I haven't tried it ever again (in any form).  

You're right, Tobina, I never thought of myself as a picky eater, but when I stop & think (or read the forum) I see there are lots of things I don't like or won't try.  In my defense though, if you only knew some of the tricky ways my family has tried to get me to eat stuff I don't want to eat, you'd understand.   HA!

However, I do love sauerkraut, liver & onions, mushrooms, pickled beets, turnips, cream of wheat, and lots of other foods that some folks don't.  There are things like parsnips, asparagus, frog legs and gooseberry pie that I'll eat but won't go out of my way for.  I won't eat raw fish, no matter what you call it; but fried catfish is one of my favorite foods.  Calf fries & brains, fish eggs, crawdads I'd never eat on purpose (Ha!) and I don't see the point in spending all day cooking a tongue and mixing it up into sandwich spread, when you can just do the same with ham in a fracion of the time...  But I know "waste not, want not" and maybe some people think of it as comfort food.  My goodness, I am picky!

     Joanna, I will agree with you about the okra, as there "t'aint no way I'm gonna eat that stuff!"  I've tried it a couple of times, and that was enough to last me for a lifetime.   And speaking of the spelling police, I thought the general idea of this forum was to relax and have some fun and overlook the mistakes of others.   :-\   I just hope they don't begin a "grammar police".  :o :o :-\ :-\

Oh, no.  No grammar police.  Never ever ever.  I was raised in a family where spelling and grammar were very important so that we wouldn't sound ignorant and trashy.  Sorry to say, my grammar has slipped tremendously since then.  Married an Elk County hillbilly almost 60 years ago.  But 5 years as a legal secretary, using an old electric typewriter where if a correction had to be made, the whole page had to be typed over, taught me to proof read everything.  And I am talking about an office where documents (especially court documents) had to be perfect before they could be sent out.  I cannot read anything without spotting the misspellings.  And to my eye some misspelled words do say ignorant or at the least careless.  If you are careless in one thing, you are inclined to be careless in other things, also.  I can't do that.

Well, there ya' go!  We was raised to use bad grammar on purpose so as not to sound all uppity around our hillbilly friends.
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Just kidding!   (I sure hope my Mom doesn't read this, she'll skin me alive!)

Well...........I'm makin a list and checkin' it twice, to decide who gets a corncob in their stocking on Christmas Eve!  ;D ;D

Wilma, we are of the "old school," where you do the best you can with what you have!  I remember those days of typing on the typewriter, one mistake took a long time to correct, so we tried awfully hard not to make that mistake!  And, my Mother and some of my Aunts were "old-time" school teachers, and we were promptly correctly, when we used incorrect language.  I kind of miss that, actually!  (I still stop and think, do I use "I" or "me" ???)  I imagine Rudy is probably as good as anybody on the forum, with proper word usage, don't you?

Excuse me........I think I must be on the wrong website, as I wasn't aware that I was supposed to be paying extra attention to spelling and grammar. I  prefer to be myself and not pretend to be something that I am not.  Ya'll have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!   :P

UH huh? ???  Do you mean to tell me that your spelling and grammar are perfect because it comes from your mind and fingers that way?  If that is true, you are way ahead of me. :o ::) and I thought that was coal in the stockings.

My mother-in-law was from New Orleans and made the best gumbo in the world with lots of okra.  Fortunately, my wife inherited that great ability to cook so I still get a taste now and then. 

Santa, Santa!  I should add that I type too fast, and therefore, I make LOTS of mistakes!  I just am thankful for spell check, when it's available!  Perfect?  Me?  Hardly!!!

So far there has not been ANY food mentioned on this forum - and probably not on any other either, for that matter, that I don't like.  Any of you folks that don't like okra are missing a wonderful vegetable -- it does not have to be slimy, for pity sake, I truly think you could cook a potato slimy if you tried hard enough.  Am I an easy keeper?  You Bet !! and I am a fair cook, so bring it on, I'll cook it and I'll eat it and you won't hear me get "picky" about it either.

  Santa, you can fill my stocking with all kinds of goodies...but please. I had to pick up corn cobs for Mama to use as fire starters, so don't give me any cobs, PLLLEEAASSSEEE!

I'm with you Jo, we ate it if it didn't eat us first!!  ;D ;D We raised much of our diet including chickens, rabbits, lots of veggies and fruits. I have picked a many of worms out of cherries, off of corn and shuddered cleaning the smut off the corn . Now I hear it is a delicacy, now that IS Really yucky. I guess I could get used to it though. I love fried okra, and like it cooked in combo dishes also. Folks let it get too big and it gets spiny and slimy. Okra has to be picked Every day for petes' sake.  Kind of like beans and black eyed peas. They are best when harvested early. I am not a farmer, I like to plant flowers, but do appreciate a good vegetable patch with someone else tending it!! Does anyone appreciate asparagus the way I do?

Oh  Welllllll  now you hit on the spring time favorite...Fred and I absolutely LOVE LOVE this,...raw with a curry dip - steamed with butter or cheese or both - creamed on toast - in a home made soup.... In a fresh stir fry seasoned with soy sauce....Mercy me what a great veggie--- that is the best ever.  I wish I could stay home today and make a trip to the market and losd up...'
Now, why did you have to  start me thinkinf of asparagus????   Shame on you    :D :D :D :D

I grew up in a home where we called it "okrie."  Somehow that made it taste better, especially if Mom sliced it, rolled it in corn meal and fried it in her cast iron skillet.

I didn't know about asparagus until I was an adult and I fell in love with it.

I had a good friend who was African-American and she prepared polk greens one day for an office party.  I didn't care for them at all, but I'm sure they are quite healthy, as are most green, leafy foods.

As for the grammar issue, yes, I can probably keep up with anybody on the rules, but my fingers still make lots of mistakes as I type. When you compose stories at the keyboard, your mind is always a sentence ahead of your fingers which makes for lots of embarrassing typos.

Plus, I have one of those new keyboards with keys that hardly depress at all.  It's nice, quiet and actually less tiring to type on it, but it's much easier for transposed letters to slip through.

Have a nice, cold day, everyone.

Asparagus is one of my favorites but that hasn't always been true.  My mother used to tell a story about me stomping the peas in the ground after she had planted them.  When asked why I was doing that I replied, "Because they taste like asparagus and I don't like asparagus".  She also said that was the best crop of peas she ever had.  Now I like both and if you have never eaten green peas right out of the just picked pod, you have really missed a treat.  Tempted to plant a few just for that treat.

It seems that everyone has their favorite and their least favorite foods.  There is several food items that I enjoy eating but can't.  I am allergic to cabbage but not to sauerkraut, perch but not catfish, cantalope but not watermelon.  I enjoy eating okra, especially fried, and fried green tomatoes.  I have even made a green tomatoe pie and it was delicious.  Even my sister in Missouri like it. :D :D :D

OK, my apologies to everyone for calling you picky... Joanna hit on a few things that turned my stomach!  YUCK!  Calf fries I'll eat, but tongue and the other stuff... no thanks.  I should have prefaced my comments in being about veggies!  Except I do like the occasional jaternice on crackers... as long as I don't think about it too hard!  (My mom's maiden name is Vap; Czech!)

I love fried okra, pickled okra, sauerkraut, tongue, heart, bull and calf frys, turkey fries, raw and cooked peas and asparagus.

Derek grills asparagus outside on the grill and it is wonderful.

(My okra whether it is fried or pickled is never slimy.) Guess I am just a good cook... LOL  ;)

((Ok.. time to gross you all out. ))
When I go squirrel hunting, if I happen to screw up and don't head shoot them, then when I skin them out and clean them I go ahead and skin the head out too right along with the rest of it. I clean out the eyes etc..and wash and scrub the head real good and then, if I have young squirrels  I fry it right with the cut up pieces of the squirrel. , just like chicken .. if they are old, I go ahead and add water after they are fried and slowly smother them in a gravy.  When they're done I take the head and with the handle of the knife I break open the head and eat the brains.
They're really good.
It is a McDonald thing I think, as my granddad McD and my dad always did that... so I do it.

((Told you it would gross you out! ;) ))

Sounds to me like you are a good cook and you also know what good eating is.   You might be like me as I started eating a lot of those foods when I was to young to know I wasn't suppose to like them.  At 2 or 3 years old tongue sounds no worse than rump roast.

Oh Teresa, that didn't gross me out, but I would have to pick out the squirrel heads if I ever ate your gravy... like a kid picking the green peppers off his pizza.  HA!  What a mental picture that gives me!

Tobina, you actually did preface your remark as being about vegetables, but my imagination just ran away with me and I overlooked the details.  Food is food, after all.  I love hearing about uncommon foods ~ There is another thread about that too.  I think I'll gather them all up in a recipe book.  It should be an instant hit, don't you think?!? 
Also  :-[ I don't know what jaternice is ~ probably something like braunschweiger or liverwurst?  Oh! I just read a recipe for it on cooks.com and sure enough...  I guess I would try a little taste on a cracker ~ couldn't be any worse than what goes in hotdogs!

I must agree with Teresa on the foods but will add the turtle soup and a special occasion when brains and scrambled eggs were on the table.  Not to many brains to go around.  We ate what was on the table, enjoying all of it.  I do love okra and add it to my stew as it gives it a thickening agent and tasty.  Also, I enjoy watching okra grow in the garden with its pretty yellow blossom.  A niece loved beets as a child.  Could not shovel them into her mouth fast enough.  Peas are never better than straight from the garden.  Remember getting in trouble as a child because I would not leave the peas alone.  Liked popping them out of the pod.
Heart with noodles yummmmmmm!  Plain steamed cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli or raw.  Now I must be careful what I eat but can almost taste the foods.  Now where did I put that turtle???? ;D ;D ;D ;D  I can clean one too.

Alright, now I'm calling MYSELF picky after hearing some of the stuff Teresa eats!  (Or is it just good sense and blessed enough to be able to buy normal food from the grocery store!)  Give me a barrel of jaternice (pronouced intherneencey) over Teresa's cooking anyday!   ;)

Well, this summer we'll just have to get the forum together and have a veggie pot-luck.  Cook them any way you like and we'll taste everything!

Quote from: Tobina Norris on December 17, 2007, 09:31:57 AM
Alright, now I'm calling MYSELF picky after hearing some of the stuff Teresa eats!  (Or is it just good sense and blessed enough to be able to buy normal food from the grocery store!)  Give me a barrel of jaternice (pronouced intherneencey) over Teresa's cooking anyday!   ;)

I may be prejudiced, but I don't think so. Anyone who has ever sat at Teresa's table and eaten her cooking
will never want to leave. :) And there is plenty that will agree with me on that one.
She might eat a few weird things, although I did try the squirrel brains and they weren't bad.
(Does that make me weird like her?) :-\
But weird things aren't that common on our table. But good southern down home cookin' sure is.
We'll have you over for her fried chicken, biscuits (that float off your plate) gravy and pie. You will be begging to stay.  ;D :D ;D :D

Ahhh(http://www.cascity.com/howard/animations/baahum.gif) (http://www.cascity.com/howard/animations/shucks.gif)... I just cooks like me mammy taught me to. ;)

But thank's for the compliment. (http://www.cascity.com/howard/animations/kiss2.gif)

I'm going to sidle up here and take a bow - even though it is sort of second hand - but she does cook like me.  And Wierd???  Welllllll maybe, but not too much.

Quote from: Kjell H. on December 17, 2007, 11:18:16 AM

(Does that make me weird like her?) :-\

Yes, it does make you weird like her.  How sad is that??????

Now since we told why we hate to eat certain foods.  How about some recipes that includes these foods?

Boiled owl perhaps?

QuoteNot to many brains to go around.

Sorry, but this just tickled my funny bone.

I'm glad you noticed my brain humor.  But really there are not enough brains to go around! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Do you think that might be because some people have more than they are using? ::) ;D ;D

uuuhhhhhhhhh... No.  :-\