Originally Posted by
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My Mrs grows and cooks Okra, she calls them "Lady Fingers". She fries them as you do, but instead of pepper she throws in chilli powder. I have eaten them and they are sticky as you say and they do get stringy if you let them stay in the ground too long. I have eaten them in India as well. She also cooks a vegetable called "Drumsticks" which grow from a tree. They are a bit like Okra, but too woody for me.
Yellow squash she mixes with eggs and makes omelets. I reckon your Daddy would have given her a job in the cafe if she were in Texas in those days. She can handle all that spicy type foods.
When I see you cooking I think of the old days, yes I know we can't live in the past, but life was a lot simpler then.
There was a recipe when I was a kid called Bubble and Squeak that my mum use to make, it was the left over baked vegetables from the previous day that was mashed up and fried in the pan. It consisted of peas, carrots, pumpkin and potatoes made into small cakes and fried, in those days we never chucked out food, left over meat was battered and fried also, they were called fritters. I like frying bananas, cut them in half, fry them till browned and eat them with ice cream. But I have to get a decent cast iron pan, I use to have one but I lost it some where, so I toyed around with those non-stick pans which after a while are useless. You cannot beat cast iron for cooking. Anyway thanks for the recipe.