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fiver

fiver

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make it here all the time.
i grow smaller 8" pumpkins just for doing that.
if we don't pie them they get made into a soup,,, mixed with butternut squash into a soup or just cooked and eaten.

i have a couple of Blue pumpkin plants started already, they make a blue colored Pie with a very mild pumpkin flavor and they mix well with sweet potatoes.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
The last 12 yr we've not cut them until 10/31 , on 11/1 we cut them up and cook them down . Had pies ,jack o' lantern pies , until Easter this year.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
I like the extra-thick, pinkish with white blotches kind of punkin for pies, in fact I buy them for jack o lanterns and then make pies as an excuse. The orange ones don't make great pies but they're ok cut into strips and baked in a pan with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon. The deer here are to dumb to eat squash I guess, they'll eat the blossoms but not the vines or fruit. Possums however LOVE squash, the more rotten it is the better. Had a dog once that the only thing he loved more than ice cream was watermelon rind, never figured that one out.
 
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Thumbcocker

Active Member
Farmerjim said:
Deer love okra.
I have never had deer eat squash, eggplant, or sweet corn.
They will eat jalapeno peppers.
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I spent some of my formative yeats in the South. I never could warm up to oakra. I'm all for it as long as it is on someone else's plate.

When I was in high school a friend of mine's father had a serious heart attack. About a mont later we were visiting him. He had lost a ton of weight and looked healthy. He said he was on a doctor prescribed diet. When we asked him about how strict the diet was he said "I can have all the raw oakra I want." I know that would work for me.
 
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richhodg66

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I love Okra. Especially pickled, which despite growing up in the south, I never saw that until I moved to Oklahoma. Brought it up to my mother in law who had grown up in rural S.C. and was a subject matter expert on all things canning and pickling and she said she'd never heard of anyone pickling okra but was up for giving it a try and did a bunch for us. I need to learn how to can and pickle stuff.
 
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richhodg66

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Honestly, I don't think I ever met a vegetable I didn't like prepared some way or another. Wasn't brought up to be a picky eater.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Lots of people are turned off by the slimy interior of boiled/steamed okra. I just look at it as lube for the gullet. Cut it in small pieces and add to soups and stews, you'd never notice it.

Walmart carries Old South brand pickled okra in mild to spicy hot. Bottled in Alma, Arkansas.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
I've eaten a lot of okra and fried green tomatoes. Only had it "get all snotty" once , it was just cut too big . No "pure" gumbo but lots of gumbolia lately . I'm kind of holding out for the bucket of junk .
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Missionary said:
Was at Ft Hood with another tank crewman from Louisiana. Went to his house (72) one 3 day weekend and had my first gumbo !
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First three day pass at Fort Polk in 1968, went with squad mate to Bellville, LA. Cajon girls really do dance barefoot in the moonlight!
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Potatoes are a vegetable, right? Them, corn, peas, beans and tomato pretty much outline the limit of my veggie intake. You're all welcome to the rest of it!
 
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