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Harvested all these squashes First time grow and harvest Hubbard squash. I have few questions for someone who had experience in winter squashes. Does Hubbard squash need to be cured before eating? Will it get sweeter in the storage?
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Love them breaded and fried.
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@Robert… yes… very good like that.
We KETO… Okra is a great keto veggie… but to keep it low carb… you have to ditch the normal breading.
What we do is this… wash and cut then dry … one egg in a bowl whipped a bit… then pour into your bowl of okra pieces… and mix good to coat okra with egg.
Then season well with 5 spice (salt pepper onion powder garlic powder paprika)… and add some fine almond flour to the mix… and mix it well to get all okra coated with that.
We use a carbon steel pan… with avacado oil and bacon fat mix to fry in.
Ohhhh soooo GOOD.
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I wouldn’t think lard would be any healthier than ‘breaded’ okra…
but I could be mistaken? Seems like a lot of hoops to avoid some breading.
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Sound interesting, and looks great! Have you ever tried just grilling them whole? I like to brush or toss them in olive oil, grill them, and add salt and pepper, maybe a drizzle of soy sauce. Also, tossing them in a hot wok whole is similarly good.
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Slimy. Slimy. Slimy.! LOL
I love my wok. Never fry or sauté in a big flat frying pan anymore.
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Jay, I’m gonna try this if I ever get some Okra. Some people complain about pomegranate seeds . . . I complain about the ones in okra! But this recipe sounds interesting.
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It’s great stuff, and no slime! I haven’t noticed any trouble with seeds, unless I let the pods get too big.
A note on okra slime: it only gets slimy when the cut okra is exposed to water, so you either minimize water contact (cook them whole, saute in an uncrowded pan, deep fry) or you add enough liquid that it becomes a thickener instead of slime (gumbo). Boiling, steaming, or crowding the pan are a guarantee of a sticky mess.
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Thanks! My husband likes okra . . . so we’ll have to put some in our garden next year.
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@Blueberry… Keto… short for ketosis…
Ketosis is achieved by restricting carbs in your diet to the point that your body no longer uses glucose for energy… instead it changes to using fat for energy.
Fat in your body (accumulated/stored) and fat in your diet (like bacon fat) gets burned (processed by the liver) to produce ketones… which fuel your body.
The short of it…
Eating a Standard American Diet … Extremely high in carbs… and loaded with fat… causes most of that fat to be stored in your body… extremely unhealthy.
Eating Keto style… the fat you consume is burned by the liver to produce ketones… which fuel your body… it also burns the fat stored in your body… a new slimmer trimmer you.
Ps… I used to weigh 220… 5 ft 11 inch.
I now weigh 155.
I used to be on meds for high blood pressure high triglycerides, had terrible arthritis and gut problems… that I took meds for…
Now… no Rx meds at all.
I KETO !!!
Also (added later when had time)… do a goog search on grains and inflamation… also grain oils and inflamation…
Definately worth the trouble to me to avoid them.
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Oven baked okra fries… very good too.
Hard to beat fried though.
Nothing wrong with frying considering you are using healthy fats.
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yum! I’d eat that.
A few rogue blooms on my citrus now. I guess they’d fall off, but it’ll be cool if they really turn into fruits
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The most ridiculous okra plant ever is still churning along. I can’t believe it’s still going but hasn’t had new leaves in months. Just those little spindly things at the bottom.
Edit because if you look closely, the stalk with the flour has no leave. The leave are all on a second stalk, that I’m not even sure ever produced. I must have failed to thin it and it confused me into thinking it was one.
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I’d agree de-germed grains made into bread are nutritionally deficient, (and I should eat less of them). But life w/o grain would be equivalent to life eating pawpaws and dandelion greens…no fun at all.
Now, I could go with olive oil if necessary, and whole grain breads.
But a bacon grease and baked okra and tomatoes…nyet.
Works for gluten free, too. Looks really good!
@blueberry… we fry okra in a mix of avacado oil (very high smoke point… but not a lot of flavor) and add some bacon fat… which is full of flavor.
You should try some time… delicious.
I dont avoid grains or grain oils because of lack of nutrition… but because of inflamation and carb count.
100 g corn flour 79 carbs
50 g (4 tablespoons) 39.5 carbs
I can eat 30-35 g carbs daily and maintain ketosis.
I choose berries over corn meal 
A cup of whole strawberries 11 g carbs.
Raspberries blueberries blackberries are also quite low in carbs.
Most of my daily intake of carbs comes from highly nutritious berries, leafy greens and other low carb veggies like okra… that are also highly nutritious.
No room or desire for corn meal or flour anymore. I used to eat that a lot… but I used to visit my gi doc and surgeon regular too.
No more. I dont miss them at all.
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