In article >,
Wayne Boatwright > wrote:

> On Mon 18 Jul 2005 12:56:24p, OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
> > In article >, "Mary" >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> "I-zheet M'drurz" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> > Mary spaketh thusly:
> >> >
> >> > > Anyone hear the comic who said he ate so much okra as a child that
> >> > > he couldn't keep his socks up?
> >> >
> >> > OK, anybody else who doesn't get it, raise your spatula...
> >> >
> >> > --
> >>
> >> Have you ever had fried okra? It is kind of like deep-fried
> >> slime. Very slippery. It is almost as though southerners
> >> were hard pressed to find something to deepfry and settled
> >> for something that would hold its shape just long enough for the
> >> batter to brown.
> >>
> >> ba boom!
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Sorry, but all of the deep fried, breaded, Okra I have had was not slimy.
> > That is why they fix it that way. It gets RID of the slime!
>
> Correct! However, if you don't really want fried okra, you can lightly
> saute it in just a bit of oil or butter and then steam 'til tender.
> Sauteing it first prevents it from being slimy.

So does a light blanching....... ;-)
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Om.

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