If you have a food dehydrator, cut them in little chunks and you can season them with just a little salt or other fun seasonings, and keep them in a jar to snack on. That's fantastic. Of course, steamed, fried, and GUMBO are wonderfully delicious.
I love how you pushed through to show us how you can cook with food you grow, I can tell it was a little uncomfortable for you but GIRL YOU ROCKED!!! Lol. Everybody does things differently and I'm glad you worked up enough nerve to show us how you do. I thought I was weird for not measuring when I cooked, I go by smell, looks and taste and it always turns out great no matter what I'm cooking or baking! I just wanted to say GREAT JOB!!!!
I LOVE watching a fellow country girl in the kitchen take a floured hand across her pants! Takes me back to my mom's kitchen as a little kid. Country moms rock! ^_^ Two things I learned frying chicken... One wet hand, one flour hand.... keeps your fingers from gunking up when you're in the kitchen frying pounds of food. And cooking Asian food....I learned that using corn starch in batters lightens them up and makes them REALLY crispy! I add corn starch now instead of flour. Try it! I love it, especially on fish. I love love love your cooking videos! I'm trying so hard to get more out of my garden, and you're my inspiration. Out of all the youtubers...your garden is just what I aspire to have. PLEASE don't stop making these...
Oh this makes me homesick. My husband and I moved our little family out to the Pacific Northwest after a lifetime of living in Oklahoma. Watching this video, I realize that's the one thing I miss the most.. Me and my little honyocks picking okra from our "okra trees" in the garden out back, bringing them inside and rinsing them, slicing them up, and giggling in the kicthen while we waited on the okra to finish frying. By the time I had finished frying the last of the batch, they were always already gone. Those were the days. Cherish these memories you're making with that beautoful family of yours. God has blessed you so wonderfully. As a sidenote, here in Washington state I have been to seven different farmer's markets (and every retail/home & garden/hardware store within a 50 mile radius), and NOT ONCE have I come across okra, or okra seeds, or anyone who's even heard of okra -- let alone fried okra -- before. Pretty ureal thing to discover. I'm like, wait a minute.. Y'all really don't know what okra is? That's when I realized we're not in -Kansas- Oklahoma anymore. Thanks for having the courage to cook for us. It truly blessed my day.
Last year okra was my "try something new" veggie. Loved it! I had so much of it, though. I finally dehydrated it in little chunks. I throw a handful or two in soups and found it to be so yummy.
You’re my hero. Totally have a dehydrator and didn’t even think about using it for new veggies I’ve grown but was worried about not using it all. Especially since I want to try okra. Have totally had dried okra as a snack and now I’m way too excited. Lol
Thank you for this video! I grew up in Ohio and never even knew what okra was, but now I live in Florida and in the perfect climate to grow it so I'm planting some today!
Your hands are your best tools in the kitchen!!! A pinch of this. A dash of that. A palm or palm full. 🤣😂😂😂. Taste - yup is good. 😂😂. Best way to cook.
You seem like such a cool and chill lady. Sometimes I see videos on UA-cam where I wish I lived around the person because I would love to be their friend, and this is definitely one of them. Very informative video and I love your cooking style. No sophistication needed - just keepin it real in the kitchen! ❤️. I started growing okra two years ago and I plan to grow more next year because I’ve fallen in love with the plants and I am OBSESSED with roasted okra (and carrots). I could eat that for dinner almost every day.
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I like that you don’t fake anything in the cooking part. Our hands are our natural tools and they work well in the kitchen! I enjoy every part of your channel, including the cooking!
Coming back here after watching you for years to say that I’ve finally grown my skin an okra thanks to you and tonight will be the first time cooking it. I’m so proud. Thanks for your inspiration!
I am a Texas girl, born & raised! Grew up on okra & love it any way it is cooked. Most preferred is fried,second is pickled & third is stewed w/tomatoes (it is slimy but good). I have been wanting some good ole fashioned fried okra lately. The kind in restaurants & fast food places just aren’t the same as cornmeal breading. The best utensils in the kitchen are your hands. Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸
Random Thoughts: 1) I've worked with some of the greatest chefs in the world. They ALL say home cooking is the best. I have no doubt they'd ALL love your food. 2) I'm pretty squeamish and wince when I see people touching my food. However, I have ZERO problem with one person -- the actual cook -- cooking with her/his hands. After all, hands are the most useful tool in the kitchen. 3) Everyone who knows about food knows that simple is ALWAYS best. You should never feel the need to apologize for cooking that way. The greats always prefer true, simple, honest ingredients and combinations. That is the best way to actually taste the ingredients. 4) Your recommendation to taste the food and decide for yourself what it needs is the #1 most important way to become a great cook.Sure sometimes mistakes are made, but nothing beats tasting and deciding for yourself. 5) I've never tasted okra. Thanks to your video I have a sense of ways to explore it. For that I am very grateful. Thanks!
I’ve always been blessed with kids who will eat almost anything. My husband however, could live on bacon and coffee so hiding things in his food became a sport of sorts 😂
I totally understand why you don't like cooking videos. I'm so spontaneous in the kitchen, trying to explain my process is impossible. With that being said, I so appreciate you taking the time! Because I should have my first ever okra soon!!
Great video! Thank you. As a British ex-pat, transplanted to Texas, okra was alien to me. I now grow it and fry it in very shallow coconut oil, coated with almond flour, paprika, cayenne, garlic powder, onion powder, and salt. Yummy! Will definitely try roasting it.
I'm growing 7 okra plants in a large container in Las Vegas. It's super hot here and they are thriving. I wish I'd had sown more. Easiest plant I've ever grown and I love them raw.
Thats how i cook too!!! I just love watching you!! You an inspiration to me. I now talk to God in my garden. I have always thanked him but some how its different. Thankyou I bless you.
I’m from Texas and I never knew you could eat okra raw and always hated okra but my parents like it so we grow it and I just tried a raw one and love it omg
My okra is just starting to produce well here in central Illinois...usually we just go the fried route, but I think roasted will be on the menu soon! With the breaded okra that ends up in my freezer, we've found that we can bake it in a 425 degree oven for about 20 minutes with a spritz of oil on it and get almost the same crispiness as frying delivers.
Mary Mansfield try it roasted. It is SO SO good. We’re in Indiana. My okra is just starting to give me a few pods a day. I’m DYING for a good mess of them.
@@ipudding111 He's more Chicagoland than central Illinois, but I highly recommend checking out One Yard Revolution's channel. Patrick is managing to grow year round in his backyard and has a whole lot of useful information on his channel. He's been a huge inspiration for me over the last couple of years.
Search for an arabic okra and meat stew with white rice it’s sooooo delicious u will love it and it’s perfect for crowd feeding and stays good in the fridge + it uses a lot of okra at once
Hi Jess ! Great video! I cook the exact same way... and I think it's great. Hands are sometimes, the BEST tool, and it does not need to be complicated or fancy to be delicious. It also adds a bit of love that will never accompany factory-made food. Fried okra was a food that I craved as a toddler (in Texas, of course ;) and I haven't had it in a while due to moving up to the northeast... and your video just brought it all back. thank you !!!!! tons of love from PA ...and keep teaching cooking as blissfully simplistic as possible. Hugs
I know you said you don’t like it, but I have often wondered what you do with many of the things you grow! I am southern, have always grown the usual southern stuff. You inspire me to branch out! Having said that, there’s a ton of stuff that I would love to see you cook and show us how to preserve!!!! Sometimes, even just to see the inside, textures, and the descriptions of tastes. It helps me decide if I want to deal with trying something different. Like, I am not sure y’all have enough to do over there...more of this too please 😂 thanks a million for all the inspiration!!!!
I love that you show the "real" you in every video. Thank you for not being too "extra." You make me feel like a good-practical mama too. Thank you for all the tips with okra.
Normal to my household, too. All my life. Last week I fried some garden-picked okra after rolling it in cornmeal. I made fresh purple-hull peas, too. I like okra with fried chicken or pork chops. Even better with chicken and dumplings. (Sorry, I must be hungry.) We enjoy fried okra like one craves popcorn. Didn't realize there were so many varieties. Thanks for the info, Jess!
Your hands are your best tool. Grew up in Beaumont, California eating okra. Family originally from Oklahoma. Love you tile. I have the same tile in my kitchen.
I just found your channel. I’m so glad I did! I can’t wait to watch more. This is my second year of having a garden. Last year was 1 box and now our back porch is full. I’m hooked. I always thought I had a black thumb. Last year for Mother’s Day I asked my hubby for a garden. I found you tonight looking up okra. I got my first flowers today and they are so pretty.
Thank you for your down to earth video. It's like getting help from a sister. I like that you mix with your hands. I can't wait to roast my first batch of okra tonight!
I love adding okra to a frittata with zucchini, bacon, red capsicum and crumbled feta. We are lucky enough to grow okra as a perennial in the tropical north of Australia
I’ve never had a pleasant experience with okra. I’m a small-town southeast Missouri girl. It’s always been slimy or mushy or just generally gross. My husband-a born and bred Arkansan-insisted that we grow it this year. Fingers crossed we can change my mind!
you need to fry it a little bit in olive oil, just stir fry it and the slime is gone. I love it with beef as a stew... its absolutely one of my fave veggies ever.
My family loves fried okra as we learned to make it from my mom's Aunt Lavida in Rogers, AR. Okra fried with cornmeal, then add crisp chopped bacon, sauteed onions, and diced tomatoes fresh from the garden, salt and pepper to taste, stir together gently, heat and eat. It's a meal in itself and so delicious.
I love okra stew fried - a little water and a little olive oil. my new favorite way is to grill it. I put it whole in a bowl, drizzle a little olive oil with garlic salt. stir to coat and then just grill. it is so good
I am right at home with this video as I am from Alabama and I love it fried, baked, boiled in butter beans, in smoothies, gumbos, stews, pickled okra, all kinds of ways. I have never fried or baked them whole. Will def give that a whirl. This is so good to lower blood sugar.....that's why the smoothie. Okra is by far, my favorite thing to grow. Makes me feel like a pro to be able to harvest such a low maintenance crop literally twice a day.
I love okra anyway you fix it! Okra is our cash crop at our farm stand! Been planting Clemson Spineless for years and years! Today we sold 3 bushels in 25 minutes! Can never plant enough for our customers! Love your videos! Hope all is going well ! Keep Inspiring! Thanks! Marlene from SC
I recently discovered your channel and I'm addicted to your videos. I'm from Trinidad, a Caribbean island and we use a lot of this vegetable. 1 way to cook it is 1st hot a little oil, then add some grated garlic, chopped onions, hot peppers and plimeto. Toss then throw in your thinly chopped Ocros, add salt to taste. Cover it and let it soften up then remove cover and cook until golden brown. It's very delicious, I promise.
Grandma used to cut up okra and add corn, jalapenos etc and then she mixed flour and corn meal with salt and then fried it...mmmm. So, I make that sometimes...but mostly I fry it. It is not slimy when you fry it either. I've never baked it before. Enjoyed your video as I do most of them . Thank you for sharing.
I know this video is a year old, but I thought I'd still add my 2 cents! I like to chop okra into small rounds and fry with a tiny amount of oil together with onion, garlic, red peppers thinly sliced and a small amount of chilli flakes. Once nice and soft just pile between two slices of buttered bread. Simple and delicious. My mum would prepare okra as a side dish like this. By the time we'd all snuck a bit in a slice of bread there would be hardly any left to go with the meal!
I'd never heard of it until a year ago and I've never met a person in my country who has. I've been itching to plant some, but no nursery sells the seeds and no company ships to my country. I live in Africa, but far south and it's just not a thing here. I came across some seeds in a nursery that was hella expensive. But I got it and they're ready to plant out in about two weeks. Cant wait!
@@marthaperkins7531 I've read that is one of the theories. But honestly in the part where I live, we've never heard of it. And this is not one of the countries where slave trade took place. It probably originated in one of the more lush places...not many things grow well naturally in my country. And no one ships to here, so I cant order from anyone😭
You cook exactly like I do. Mix taste add. People hate to get a recipe from me because I say oh I add some of this. Little more of that. The recipe says do this but I do that. Having fun!!!
@@FebbieG absolutely horrible 🤣I got one single fruit from 10 plants. my climate is too unpredictable for okra.the sea dew and cold mornings did not agree with it....just when I thought I got them to get some hight and a few flowers, our winter storms started. Our winters are mild, but we get terrible heat/sand storms that rage in from the desert. One day it's cool, the next its 48° and the wind rips out my pumpkins. I'll have to save up for a greenhouse or at least a cover roof, maybe I'll try again then.
I am in Fayetteville AR and I am so excited that I found you about a month ago. First go for a garden for me. I am going with your kid’s raised beds. Thank you for all of your help!
I'm a NZer too but moved to the southwestern US and okra has been my favorite garden discovery here!! I would be interested to know how well it grows in NZ because we only plant it when the soil temp is around 90, so it is usually the last thing I put in the ground. It's a beautiful plant!!
I love that you make cooking videos because you are so REAL about it! Use your fingers! Don’t measure things! You should see me make my chicken 😂 I end up covered in egg and batter and flour lol
Most common vegetable in the Indian subcontinent 😁. Lots of recipes available on you tube to cook it the Indian way : just search for bhindi recipes in English 😋.
@@cassandrabaker8060 So versatile and tasty !! One way is to make fritters , cut into strips , make a spice mix with chickpea flour , turmeric , red chilli powder , cumin powder , chat masala and salt . Toss cut strips in the spice mix and a quick fry in hot oil , yum yummm😊. We add it to our lentil and vege soup ( sambar ) which is spicy , sour ( with tamarind) and sweet ( with jaggery) , perfectly balanced .
I love okra! I hope you don't mind but I have been binge watching your videos all day! I got Soo much done! Cleaned my kitchen and cooked stir fry for my family! Thank you for hanging out with me today! ❤️😁
Getting ready to plant okra in my CO garden today. I LOVE okra, which I grew up with in the south, too. My mom used to make okra and tomatoes, which cuts the slime altogether. As a young adult I discovered fried okra and miss being able to go get some at a restaurant... As an older adult, I discovered hot pickled onra... OMG. Delicious!!! So, now I am planting some for the first time ever, and it is the right time for my time zone. Never had it raw.
I love okra, of course fried is the best😂. I finally tried raw okra this year and it's a great snack while working in the garden especially when okra is just beginning to produce. I'm hoping my okra picks up enough to pickle some since I remember it as something my grandmother did who is my inspiration
Last week one of our next door neighbors brought us a couple of okra kabobs they'd grilled. They smelled divine, smoky. And for years I thought I didn't like okra.
I love that you roasted it! I had SO MUCH last year I didn’t know what else to do after pickling, frying and freezing. Screw it, let’s roast it and see how it turns out happened, it was absolutely delicious and now our favorite way to eat it. Now, I try to roast everything I grow just to see how it turns out. 😂
Thank you Jess. Finally, know what to do with okra. Thanks for being yourself. We all cook like you did in the video at home. No need to apologize. Really appreciate what you do for all of us.
I Jess I love okra too this is my first year growing okra I only have 6 plants but like you said going to the garden and eat fresh okra is the best I love the way you did too I will love to get so seeds from you from all the other varieties I only have the green okra thank you for this awesome video God bless you 🌹🌻
We love you because you're real - homecoming is the beast because it comes from the heart, and using your hands puts the love in the food. Also, thank you!! I'm going to try growing okra next year now!💕
I love okra - good job Jess! I like mine whole, cooked in a little olive oil, with a sliced up onion, until the onions are soft and okra is bright green. Then I add 1 can of crushed tomatoes (or add fresh chopped ones with basil), salt & pepper. If I want to make a meal of it, I add cooked Italian sausage or ground hamburger. You can add cayenne for a kick if you like. I love it! Makes a good meal for me!
I like to literally just grill them whole. No salt, no spice, no oil. There’s usually residual oil on the grill. Also, I leave about an inch of the stem. It’s a convenient handle. I find grilled okra doesn’t have much of any sliminess. I might be weird, I love the flavor. The simpler the better for me. Super jealous of your yields.
Thanks for sharing this video & all of your simple ways of growing & cooking okra! I’m growing just 6 plants this year for the 1st time. I usually buy it when it’s in season and stew it with peppers, onion, kale & tomatoes which all come from my garden so I decided I might as well grow the okra too!😊 I love your laid back style of cooking which is how I usually roll in the kitchen as well…thanks again!!
Also, okra is what makes gumbo have its magical thickness!!!!! And pickled okra is a cheat sheet for tasting heaven early!
Thanks for sharing Culture! A real cook does use their hands. This is cooking for a family, not a restaurant. Bon appetit!
In my 72 years as a southerner, I have never eaten okra raw until today. Thanks to you I now have another “favorite” garden snack.
I'm Jamaican and I love okra steamed with cabbage, carrots, and broccoli. I also love it with steamed fish.
If you have a food dehydrator, cut them in little chunks and you can season them with just a little salt or other fun seasonings, and keep them in a jar to snack on. That's fantastic. Of course, steamed, fried, and GUMBO are wonderfully delicious.
You don’t need to apologize about the way you cook! 😊 You do just fine!! ❤️
I always using my hands lol it's so much easier than using utensils (except hot lol). I just wash them constantly
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I love how you pushed through to show us how you can cook with food you grow, I can tell it was a little uncomfortable for you but GIRL YOU ROCKED!!! Lol. Everybody does things differently and I'm glad you worked up enough nerve to show us how you do. I thought I was weird for not measuring when I cooked, I go by smell, looks and taste and it always turns out great no matter what I'm cooking or baking! I just wanted to say GREAT JOB!!!!
Been growing okra in Texas, for 5 generations! Just made my pickle okra today, cannot wait for a taste test in a week!! Yum!
All the best chefs cook with their hands!
I know you don’t like doing cooking videos, but we’re thankful that you do! 🥰
I LOVE watching a fellow country girl in the kitchen take a floured hand across her pants! Takes me back to my mom's kitchen as a little kid. Country moms rock! ^_^
Two things I learned frying chicken... One wet hand, one flour hand.... keeps your fingers from gunking up when you're in the kitchen frying pounds of food.
And cooking Asian food....I learned that using corn starch in batters lightens them up and makes them REALLY crispy! I add corn starch now instead of flour. Try it! I love it, especially on fish.
I love love love your cooking videos! I'm trying so hard to get more out of my garden, and you're my inspiration. Out of all the youtubers...your garden is just what I aspire to have. PLEASE don't stop making these...
I was growing 8 okra till I realized 5 of them were actually weeds...that's the second time I've grown weeds thinking they were something else 😂😳😂
I'm probably doing this right now.
Haha too funny
No mam I think you might've been growing 8 weeds
~someone who hates okra
I have a 4 foot tall velvet leaf plant. 100% a weed but it's really cool to look at 😂
lolol!!
Oh this makes me homesick. My husband and I moved our little family out to the Pacific Northwest after a lifetime of living in Oklahoma. Watching this video, I realize that's the one thing I miss the most.. Me and my little honyocks picking okra from our "okra trees" in the garden out back, bringing them inside and rinsing them, slicing them up, and giggling in the kicthen while we waited on the okra to finish frying. By the time I had finished frying the last of the batch, they were always already gone. Those were the days. Cherish these memories you're making with that beautoful family of yours. God has blessed you so wonderfully.
As a sidenote, here in Washington state I have been to seven different farmer's markets (and every retail/home & garden/hardware store within a 50 mile radius), and NOT ONCE have I come across okra, or okra seeds, or anyone who's even heard of okra -- let alone fried okra -- before. Pretty ureal thing to discover. I'm like, wait a minute.. Y'all really don't know what okra is? That's when I realized we're not in -Kansas- Oklahoma anymore.
Thanks for having the courage to cook for us. It truly blessed my day.
I love a post I saw elsewhere that goes " Just add ingredients until the spirit of your ancestors whisper--that's enough child"
That’s from an Anglo Indian 😀
I just pan fried my first okra harvest! Thank you for convincing me to grow it; So easy to grow in texas.
You not being “sophisticated” in your cooking IS empowering! Thanks for coming out of your comfort zone to help me throw some okra in a pan💕
The realness of frying things with your hands and your honesty is a big reason my family watches your channel 💗
Yours is quickly becoming my favorite UA-cam channel. Thank you for making such great videos and teaching in such a down to earth real way. 💖
You are raw. You are real. You are ethereal my dear. Thank you for teaching us. XO
You should have Miah set up a time lapse on the ocra to show how fast they grow!
Missy Weidenaar I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING
Okra is my ultimate favorite veggie. I can eat it every day, 10 different ways. I love it so much. Yum!!
Last year okra was my "try something new" veggie. Loved it! I had so much of it, though. I finally dehydrated it in little chunks. I throw a handful or two in soups and found it to be so yummy.
You’re my hero. Totally have a dehydrator and didn’t even think about using it for new veggies I’ve grown but was worried about not using it all. Especially since I want to try okra. Have totally had dried okra as a snack and now I’m way too excited. Lol
Some people dehydrate and grind them, adding the powder to soups.
Thank you for this video! I grew up in Ohio and never even knew what okra was, but now I live in Florida and in the perfect climate to grow it so I'm planting some today!
Your hands are your best tools in the kitchen!!! A pinch of this. A dash of that. A palm or palm full. 🤣😂😂😂. Taste - yup is good. 😂😂. Best way to cook.
The most accurate measuring tool,
I’m 55 and I love learning from you . You are naturally wonderful . Please keep up your videos .
African here, we love okra, it's a traditional food.
You seem like such a cool and chill lady. Sometimes I see videos on UA-cam where I wish I lived around the person because I would love to be their friend, and this is definitely one of them. Very informative video and I love your cooking style. No sophistication needed - just keepin it real in the kitchen! ❤️. I started growing okra two years ago and I plan to grow more next year because I’ve fallen in love with the plants and I am OBSESSED with roasted okra (and carrots). I could eat that for dinner almost every day.
I used to hate okra. Now I love it. Being married to a Southerner eventually brought me around. One of the best garden veggies.
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I was stupid forgot my password. I love any assistance you can give me.
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I like that you don’t fake anything in the cooking part. Our hands are our natural tools and they work well in the kitchen! I enjoy every part of your channel, including the cooking!
More okra videos for 2020, plz! Love the videos that focus on one kind of food, from garden to table. This is a great format! ❤️👩🏻🌾
Coming back here after watching you for years to say that I’ve finally grown my skin an okra thanks to you and tonight will be the first time cooking it. I’m so proud. Thanks for your inspiration!
Okra was my favorite vegetable growing up. My mom made spicy 🌶 pickled okra last year and it was absolutely to die for.
I am a Texas girl, born & raised! Grew up on okra & love it any way it is cooked. Most preferred is fried,second is pickled & third is stewed w/tomatoes (it is slimy but good). I have been wanting some good ole fashioned fried okra lately. The kind in restaurants & fast food places just aren’t the same as cornmeal breading. The best utensils in the kitchen are your hands. Love & Hugs from Vicki in Ft. Worth, Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸
Random Thoughts: 1) I've worked with some of the greatest chefs in the world. They ALL say home cooking is the best. I have no doubt they'd ALL love your food. 2) I'm pretty squeamish and wince when I see people touching my food. However, I have ZERO problem with one person -- the actual cook -- cooking with her/his hands. After all, hands are the most useful tool in the kitchen. 3) Everyone who knows about food knows that simple is ALWAYS best. You should never feel the need to apologize for cooking that way. The greats always prefer true, simple, honest ingredients and combinations. That is the best way to actually taste the ingredients. 4) Your recommendation to taste the food and decide for yourself what it needs is the #1 most important way to become a great cook.Sure sometimes mistakes are made, but nothing beats tasting and deciding for yourself. 5) I've never tasted okra. Thanks to your video I have a sense of ways to explore it. For that I am very grateful. Thanks!
Southern ladies rock !!!! ROLL TIDE
I’ve always been blessed with kids who will eat almost anything. My husband however, could live on bacon and coffee so hiding things in his food became a sport of sorts 😂
😂
@@Littlehighwayhomestead combo water good
Bet he’s skinny as a rail too!
Same 😂😂 except mine eats like a teenage boy! Pizza rolls, nuggs, and Mac!
I'm an Oklahoma girl who now lives in Italy and I really appreciate your videos. I'm using them abroad - thank you!
Tree stars, ahhh! I grew up on TLBT and now my kids love it.😊 God bless! I love okra
What's TLBT?
The Land Before Time, it's a cartoon kids movie about dinosaurs.
@@Harrowfarms oh haha! I totally know that movie. I was around then. =)
What are Tree stars
I totally understand why you don't like cooking videos. I'm so spontaneous in the kitchen, trying to explain my process is impossible. With that being said, I so appreciate you taking the time! Because I should have my first ever okra soon!!
Exactly!! I hope you love okra!!!
Growin’ up, my arky/okey family called it okry. I had to get old enough to spell before I knew it was called okra. 🥰. Fried okra is the best!
I love Okra and have for all my life. I am 72 years old♥️
Great video! Thank you. As a British ex-pat, transplanted to Texas, okra was alien to me. I now grow it and fry it in very shallow coconut oil, coated with almond flour, paprika, cayenne, garlic powder, onion powder, and salt. Yummy! Will definitely try roasting it.
Sounds lo-pro👍
I'm growing 7 okra plants in a large container in Las Vegas. It's super hot here and they are thriving. I wish I'd had sown more. Easiest plant I've ever grown and I love them raw.
Thats how i cook too!!! I just love watching you!! You an inspiration to me. I now talk to God in my garden. I have always thanked him but some how its different. Thankyou I bless you.
I’m from Texas and I never knew you could eat okra raw and always hated okra but my parents like it so we grow it and I just tried a raw one and love it omg
This Texan can't harvest okra without popping at least one in my mouth.
My okra is just starting to produce well here in central Illinois...usually we just go the fried route, but I think roasted will be on the menu soon! With the breaded okra that ends up in my freezer, we've found that we can bake it in a 425 degree oven for about 20 minutes with a spritz of oil on it and get almost the same crispiness as frying delivers.
Mary Mansfield try it roasted. It is SO SO good. We’re in Indiana. My okra is just starting to give me a few pods a day. I’m DYING for a good mess of them.
Yay another central Illinois viewer, any central Illinois gardeners you’d suggest I watch for help?
@@ipudding111 He's more Chicagoland than central Illinois, but I highly recommend checking out One Yard Revolution's channel. Patrick is managing to grow year round in his backyard and has a whole lot of useful information on his channel. He's been a huge inspiration for me over the last couple of years.
Search for an arabic okra and meat stew with white rice it’s sooooo delicious u will love it and it’s perfect for crowd feeding and stays good in the fridge + it uses a lot of okra at once
Hi Jess ! Great video! I cook the exact same way... and I think it's great. Hands are sometimes, the BEST tool, and it does not need to be complicated or fancy to be delicious. It also adds a bit of love that will never accompany factory-made food. Fried okra was a food that I craved as a toddler (in Texas, of course ;) and I haven't had it in a while due to moving up to the northeast... and your video just brought it all back. thank you !!!!! tons of love from PA ...and keep teaching cooking as blissfully simplistic as possible. Hugs
I love your cooking videos because they aren't staged, and you cook like I do. Chaotically and with snacking😁💕
I know you said you don’t like it, but I have often wondered what you do with many of the things you grow! I am southern, have always grown the usual southern stuff. You inspire me to branch out! Having said that, there’s a ton of stuff that I would love to see you cook and show us how to preserve!!!! Sometimes, even just to see the inside, textures, and the descriptions of tastes. It helps me decide if I want to deal with trying something different. Like, I am not sure y’all have enough to do over there...more of this too please 😂 thanks a million for all the inspiration!!!!
I love that you show the "real" you in every video. Thank you for not being too "extra." You make me feel like a good-practical mama too. Thank you for all the tips with okra.
Normal to my household, too. All my life. Last week I fried some garden-picked okra after rolling it in cornmeal. I made fresh purple-hull peas, too. I like okra with fried chicken or pork chops. Even better with chicken and dumplings. (Sorry, I must be hungry.) We enjoy fried okra like one craves popcorn. Didn't realize there were so many varieties. Thanks for the info, Jess!
Your hands are your best tool. Grew up in Beaumont, California eating okra. Family originally from Oklahoma. Love you tile. I have the same tile in my kitchen.
I just found your channel. I’m so glad I did! I can’t wait to watch more. This is my second year of having a garden. Last year was 1 box and now our back porch is full. I’m hooked. I always thought I had a black thumb. Last year for Mother’s Day I asked my hubby for a garden. I found you tonight looking up okra. I got my first flowers today and they are so pretty.
Thank you for your down to earth video. It's like getting help from a sister. I like that you mix with your hands. I can't wait to roast my first batch of okra tonight!
I love adding okra to a frittata with zucchini, bacon, red capsicum and crumbled feta. We are lucky enough to grow okra as a perennial in the tropical north of Australia
I just bought some yesterday and am soooo excited to grow them!
I’ve never had a pleasant experience with okra. I’m a small-town southeast Missouri girl. It’s always been slimy or mushy or just generally gross. My husband-a born and bred Arkansan-insisted that we grow it this year. Fingers crossed we can change my mind!
Have you tried pickled okra? It's my favorite way to eat it, not mushy and most of the slime isn't present!
The man at the farm market gives the little kids small okra pods to eat raw. My get grandaughter loves it.
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you need to fry it a little bit in olive oil, just stir fry it and the slime is gone. I love it with beef as a stew... its absolutely one of my fave veggies ever.
My family loves fried okra as we learned to make it from my mom's Aunt Lavida in Rogers, AR. Okra fried with cornmeal, then add crisp chopped bacon, sauteed onions, and diced tomatoes fresh from the garden, salt and pepper to taste, stir together gently, heat and eat. It's a meal in itself and so delicious.
I love okra stew fried - a little water and a little olive oil. my new favorite way is to grill it. I put it whole in a bowl, drizzle a little olive oil with garlic salt. stir to coat and then just grill. it is so good
it does take about 45 - 55 minutes to get rid of the slime though.
My daughter has a air fryer - bet it would be good that way!
I am right at home with this video as I am from Alabama and I love it fried, baked, boiled in butter beans, in smoothies, gumbos, stews, pickled okra, all kinds of ways. I have never fried or baked them whole. Will def give that a whirl. This is so good to lower blood sugar.....that's why the smoothie. Okra is by far, my favorite thing to grow. Makes me feel like a pro to be able to harvest such a low maintenance crop literally twice a day.
I think you've convinced me to grow okra next summer. Love your cooking style!
I love okra anyway you fix it! Okra is our cash crop at our farm stand! Been planting Clemson Spineless for years and years! Today we sold 3 bushels in 25 minutes! Can never plant enough for our customers! Love your videos! Hope all is going well ! Keep Inspiring! Thanks! Marlene from SC
Jess, your hands are the tools God gave you first.
Use them.
Girl I think all of us southern girls batter everything with our hands lol. Hugs
Yep I cook with my hands all the time. I get a much better result.
I'm just trying to think of how one could possibly batter things any other way. Tongs? A fork? Impossible.
I recently discovered your channel and I'm addicted to your videos. I'm from Trinidad, a Caribbean island and we use a lot of this vegetable. 1 way to cook it is 1st hot a little oil, then add some grated garlic, chopped onions, hot peppers and plimeto. Toss then throw in your thinly chopped Ocros, add salt to taste. Cover it and let it soften up then remove cover and cook until golden brown. It's very delicious, I promise.
Okra is a prime component of Seafood Gumbo!!
You're like the rest of us, our hands are the best tools for all kinds of work. Rock on!!!
I love all the cooking videos they are some of my favorites! Thank you for making them❤❤❤
I know you hate making cooking videos, but I really really appreciate. It's so valuable to newbie garderners like me!
Yes it is... here up north (NYC,) if you don’t grow it you can’t find it and I love okra & tomatoes, onions-yummy!
grows great for me in Westchester
Yes...
Okra is on the list for next year's garden. Can't wait to try it out!
Grandma used to cut up okra and add corn, jalapenos etc and then she mixed flour and corn meal with salt and then fried it...mmmm. So, I make that sometimes...but mostly I fry it. It is not slimy when you fry it either. I've never baked it before. Enjoyed your video as I do most of them . Thank you for sharing.
I know this video is a year old, but I thought I'd still add my 2 cents! I like to chop okra into small rounds and fry with a tiny amount of oil together with onion, garlic, red peppers thinly sliced and a small amount of chilli flakes. Once nice and soft just pile between two slices of buttered bread. Simple and delicious. My mum would prepare okra as a side dish like this. By the time we'd all snuck a bit in a slice of bread there would be hardly any left to go with the meal!
Luv the cornmeal/flour hips❤️❤️It’s how we roll
I have found adding a spoonful of cornstarch to the flour mixture makes it really crispy.
Bob's Red Mill cornmeal - Just up the road from me! And worker owned!
Thanks for inviting us to your homestead.
Love your simple and honest way of cooking, thank you! Keep them coming!
Serenity Woods== me too!
I was born in Portugal, my family is from Angola and Okra is one of our favourite vegetables💚💚💚
I love fried okra. But then I love stewed okra and gumbo and okra anyway. I may live in PA, but I'm a southern girl at heart.
This is the way I learn to cook. Love and Hugs from Sapulpa Oklahoma
I'd never heard of it until a year ago and I've never met a person in my country who has. I've been itching to plant some, but no nursery sells the seeds and no company ships to my country. I live in Africa, but far south and it's just not a thing here. I came across some seeds in a nursery that was hella expensive. But I got it and they're ready to plant out in about two weeks. Cant wait!
Okra was brought to america by slaves from Africa.
@@marthaperkins7531 I've read that is one of the theories. But honestly in the part where I live, we've never heard of it. And this is not one of the countries where slave trade took place. It probably originated in one of the more lush places...not many things grow well naturally in my country. And no one ships to here, so I cant order from anyone😭
You cook exactly like I do. Mix taste add. People hate to get a recipe from me because I say oh I add some of this. Little more of that. The recipe says do this but I do that. Having fun!!!
@@fiffihoneyblossom5891 How did your okra growing adventure go? Well, I hope.
@@FebbieG absolutely horrible 🤣I got one single fruit from 10 plants. my climate is too unpredictable for okra.the sea dew and cold mornings did not agree with it....just when I thought I got them to get some hight and a few flowers, our winter storms started. Our winters are mild, but we get terrible heat/sand storms that rage in from the desert. One day it's cool, the next its 48° and the wind rips out my pumpkins. I'll have to save up for a greenhouse or at least a cover roof, maybe I'll try again then.
I am in Fayetteville AR and I am so excited that I found you about a month ago. First go for a garden for me. I am going with your kid’s raised beds. Thank you for all of your help!
Thanks so much for making this video! As a kiwi girl, we’re pretty unfamiliar with okra but I’m excited to grow it this coming spring!
I'm a NZer too but moved to the southwestern US and okra has been my favorite garden discovery here!! I would be interested to know how well it grows in NZ because we only plant it when the soil temp is around 90, so it is usually the last thing I put in the ground.
It's a beautiful plant!!
I love that you make cooking videos because you are so REAL about it! Use your fingers! Don’t measure things! You should see me make my chicken 😂 I end up covered in egg and batter and flour lol
Most common vegetable in the Indian subcontinent 😁.
Lots of recipes available on you tube to cook it the Indian way : just search for bhindi recipes in English 😋.
Good to know! Thank you!
@@tcanderson1313 Welcome!!
Bhindi masala is my favorite dish to get at Indian restaurants 😋
@@cassandrabaker8060 So versatile and tasty !!
One way is to make fritters , cut into strips , make a spice mix with chickpea flour , turmeric , red chilli powder , cumin powder , chat masala and salt . Toss cut strips in the spice mix and a quick fry in hot oil , yum yummm😊.
We add it to our lentil and vege soup ( sambar ) which is spicy , sour ( with tamarind) and sweet ( with jaggery) , perfectly balanced .
That's because it is the only thing that can be farmed in our summer season. Fried okra in yoghurt is simply lip smacking.
I love okra! I hope you don't mind but I have been binge watching your videos all day! I got Soo much done! Cleaned my kitchen and cooked stir fry for my family! Thank you for hanging out with me today! ❤️😁
"Tree Stars!" Love it!!!!
Land before time 💕🦕💕🌱
Getting ready to plant okra in my CO garden today. I LOVE okra, which I grew up with in the south, too. My mom used to make okra and tomatoes, which cuts the slime altogether. As a young adult I discovered fried okra and miss being able to go get some at a restaurant... As an older adult, I discovered hot pickled onra... OMG. Delicious!!! So, now I am planting some for the first time ever, and it is the right time for my time zone. Never had it raw.
I love okra, of course fried is the best😂. I finally tried raw okra this year and it's a great snack while working in the garden especially when okra is just beginning to produce. I'm hoping my okra picks up enough to pickle some since I remember it as something my grandmother did who is my inspiration
From the bottom of louisiana i appreciate this video. This was my first year growing them.
Last week one of our next door neighbors brought us a couple of okra kabobs they'd grilled. They smelled divine, smoky. And for years I thought I didn't like okra.
Born and raised in California grew up eating okra absolutely love it growing some now.
I love that you roasted it! I had SO MUCH last year I didn’t know what else to do after pickling, frying and freezing. Screw it, let’s roast it and see how it turns out happened, it was absolutely delicious and now our favorite way to eat it. Now, I try to roast everything I grow just to see how it turns out. 😂
Thank you Jess. Finally, know what to do with okra. Thanks for being yourself. We all cook like you did in the video at home. No need to apologize. Really appreciate what you do for all of us.
I Jess I love okra too this is my first year growing okra I only have 6 plants but like you said going to the garden and eat fresh okra is the best I love the way you did too I will love to get so seeds from you from all the other varieties I only have the green okra thank you for this awesome video God bless you 🌹🌻
Jess, just makes me want to grow okra this year. Do enjoy your videos. Precious lady.
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We love you because you're real - homecoming is the beast because it comes from the heart, and using your hands puts the love in the food.
Also, thank you!! I'm going to try growing okra next year now!💕
I love okra, anyway you cook it. My preference is okra and tomatoes. Cooked with bacon.
My mom made "Smothered Okra with Purple Onion" (with a healthy dash of soy sauce.) yum. I also love Okra and Tomatoes!
Do you just put in a pan with oil? Thanks!
@@Safari-ScarletI cook the bacon and onions, tomatoes and the okra. Really good with rice.
@@kathrinekerns8398 Thanks Katherine, I picked my first batch of Okra today and will being trying it out. It's one of my favorites too!
You know, sometimes we’ve also frozen it without the breading and bread it just before cooking
I love okra - good job Jess! I like mine whole, cooked in a little olive oil, with a sliced up onion, until the onions are soft and okra is bright green. Then I add 1 can of crushed tomatoes (or add fresh chopped ones with basil), salt & pepper. If I want to make a meal of it, I add cooked Italian sausage or ground hamburger. You can add cayenne for a kick if you like. I love it! Makes a good meal for me!
I like to literally just grill them whole. No salt, no spice, no oil. There’s usually residual oil on the grill. Also, I leave about an inch of the stem. It’s a convenient handle. I find grilled okra doesn’t have much of any sliminess. I might be weird, I love the flavor. The simpler the better for me. Super jealous of your yields.
OH TREE STARS! Flashback to little foot!!!! LOVE IT!!!!
Okra , its 1 veg ive never even tried it ,so im going to try it now i have watched you ...xx
Thanks for sharing this video & all of your simple ways of growing & cooking okra! I’m growing just 6 plants this year for the 1st time. I usually buy it when it’s in season and stew it with peppers, onion, kale & tomatoes which all come from my garden so I decided I might as well grow the okra too!😊 I love your laid back style of cooking which is how I usually roll in the kitchen as well…thanks again!!