In case there was any doubt that vegetables fresh out of the garden beat the pants off the store-bought kind, we harvested our first okra the other day and made a big batch of smothered okra. This is our go-to recipe for okra flavor and simplicity. I don’t know how you improve upon it: sauteed […]
Our farmer friend Brett sends out occasional notices about what he’ll be displaying at the Saturday farmers market. This week it was okra, which immediately got my attention. Hard to believe we are already harvesting okra (my own plants aren’t nearly there yet). So I was primed to rush there and get some. But a […]
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One of our favorite vegetables is fresh okra and we have a good climate for it here in the District of Columbia. We had a fine crop of Clemson Spineless two years ago and I saved a few seed pods. They’ve been kicking around the house ever since. At some point it occurred to me […]
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