Outdoorsman Thread

[Doc B]

Looks like it was a fun time, Bill!!!

[Steve Warden]

Good stuff, Bill!! Thanks for sharing

[Colonel26]

Great pics Bill and I certainly looks like y’all had a great time!

And I agree with TF, it’s about time for a fish fry!

[thankgod4rkids]

Thanks! I must have deleted the fish fry pictures from vacation. Dutch oven would be my preferred vessel also but didn't haul it along. My wife did buy me a " new" used electric fry pan at the thrift store. Our old one was a wedding gift 36 years ago Lake was too warm for the walleye but bass were good and may be the best crappie week I've ever had. Brought home 9 limits so we can have the monthly fish fry all winter. I'll throw in one more of my first granddaughter Brogan since I deleted the fried fish.
Bill

[Colonel26]

Thanks! I must have deleted the fish fry pictures from vacation. Dutch oven would be my preferred vessel also but didn't haul it along. My wife did buy me a " new" used electric fry pan at the thrift store. Our old one was a wedding gift 36 years ago Lake was too warm for the walleye but bass were good and may be the best crappie week I've ever had. Brought home 9 limits so we can have the monthly fish fry all winter. I'll throw in one more of my first granddaughter Brogan since I deleted the fried fish.
Bill

That pic is better than a pic of a platter of fried fish any day! "Children are a heritage from the Lord!"

[Quick Steel]

Brogan is clearly a keeper.

[royal0014]

Brogan is clearly a keeper.

Got Bill hook, line and sinker, I bet .. ... ..

[doglegg]

I don't care for fish, but I like that sweet grandbaby. You are a blessed man.

[jmh58]

They melt your heart Bill.. BIG CONGRATS!!! It only gets better!!! Have fun!!!
John

[RobesonsRme.com]

Great photos, all.

And after you fry fish, save the oil and use it to fry okra.

Charlie

[Colonel26]

Great photos, all.

And after you fry fish, save the oil and use it to fry okra.

Charlie

Oh man! Fried okra is one of God’s greatest gifts to man!

[Steve Warden]

Great photos, all.

And after you fry fish, save the oil and use it to fry okra.

Charlie

Oh man! Fried okra is one of God’s greatest gifts to man!

I must not have had it done right. I thought it was slimy.

[Colonel26]

Great photos, all.

And after you fry fish, save the oil and use it to fry okra.

Charlie

Oh man! Fried okra is one of God’s greatest gifts to man!

I must not have had it done right. I thought it was slimy.

Cut it in round slices, roll in cornmeal salt and just a touch of sweeter, and fry! No slime! Now I’m hungry lol. And it just so happens I have some in the garden that’s about ready.

[RobesonsRme.com]

Okra should be rinsed before it’s cut. Never let it get wet after it’s been cut.

I put cornmeal, salt and pepper in a one gallon freezer bag add the cut okra, seal and tumble.

Just cover the bottom of the pan with oil. Too much is bad. Heat to medium hot and fry okra, turning often with spatula.

Do not cover the pan, it will cause it to steam the okra and make it soft. Crunchy is better.

Keep frying snd turning until uniformly brown.

Don’t burn it!

Charlie

[TPK]

I'll throw my northern Minnesota vacation pictures in. My granddaughter is the fifth generation to vacation there. My grandpa "Buck" first went to this lake in 1929. My parents honeymooned there. Many Point Scout camp has about 70 some percent of the shoreline so it doesn't get populated. Was kind of sad with the Covid there were not as many boy scouts around this year. They were doing some limited camps so at least it was not empty. The red lund was my grandpa's last boat. I have a newer boat but the kids help me keep her running and we haul her along every year.
Bill

Now that's a nice looking Bass Bill! Wouldn't mind catching one like that! Tell us the truth Bill, your cute little granddaughter caught it? LOL!

[Steve Warden]

Oh man! Fried okra is one of God’s greatest gifts to man!

I must not have had it done right. I thought it was slimy.

Cut it in round slices, roll in cornmeal salt and just a touch of sweeter, and fry! No slime! Now I’m hungry lol. And it just so happens I have some in the garden that’s about ready.

Okra should be rinsed before it’s cut. Never let it get wet after it’s been cut.

I put cornmeal, salt and pepper in a one gallon freezer bag add the cut okra, seal and tumble.

Just cover the bottom of the pan with oil. Too much is bad. Heat to medium hot and fry okra, turning often with spatula.

Do not cover the pan, it will cause it to steam the okra and make it soft. Crunchy is better.

Keep frying snd turning until uniformly brown.

Don’t burn it!

Charlie

As neither my wife nor I are big fans of ocra, and since the kids are out of the house, I doubt we'll be buying any ocra any time soon.
That said, if we're out someplace and someone offers it, I'll give it another try.

[orvet]

You Southern Boys make fried okra sound like Manna From Heaven! It almost sounds good when you talk about it, but
I have eaten it a number of times; correction, I have attempted to eat it a number of times. if it hadn't been so slimy I never would have got it down my throat!
I like most all vegetables, but I'm kind of thinking okra is some sort of imposter, it just pretends to be a vegetable!
Eating okra is what I imagine a fried banana slug would be like, at least texture wise.
The fellow who won the first season of the TV survival challenge Alone, ate a lot of banana slugs up on Vancouver Island when he couldn't find anything else to eat. He didn't say they were good, but he did survive on them. He wanted that half million dollars a lot worse than I would have!

I know, you all are going to tell me I ain't never ate okra that's been cooked properly. You're probably right.
So, I'll make you a deal: I will eat some of your okra when you eat a banana slug from the Pacific Northwest. I don't care whether you boil it or fry it.

[doglegg]

Rolled in corn meal and fried, they might be good. But I think I prefer okra, fried of course.

[treefarmer]

Okra is wonderful vegetable, it will grow and produce til cold kills it. I've seen some okra plants that were so tall folks had to use small step ladders to reach the pods.
We eat it 3 way here at Starvation Plantation, the sliced, breaded and fried in oil is probably the least healthy but it tastes mighty good, Miss Joy also stir fries sliced okra into a gooey, delicious mess and of course boiling whole tender pods with a lot of butter and slightly salted is hard to beat! There is another way that is not done as often as it used to be, that being laying a big handful of young, tender pods on the top of a big pot of Southern peas, like zippers, blackeyes, purple hulls, etc.
The slimier the better!

Great photos, all.

And after you fry fish, save the oil and use it to fry okra.

Charlie

We were surprised that so many young folks use frying oil only one time! We have a stainless steel percolator with the basket that we use to strain and store used cooking oils. When it gets a bit too dark, she pours it into an empty container and into the trash. Frying fish will require changing grease pretty often. It has been many a moon since we used lard or even bacon grease to cook with. My mother was an R.N. and she instructed Miss Joy not to use too much pork fat, she told us it wasn't healthy. We use several varieties of cooking oils, peanut oil for venison (high heat), corn or canola for such as yellow squash, taters and such and then she uses olive oil for some stir fry dishes that don't require high heat.
Treefarmer

[Colonel26]

Rolled in corn meal and fried, they might be good. But I think I prefer okra, fried of course. DSCN6440.JPG

You can roll just about anything in cornmeal and fry it and it'll be good. lol

Okra is wonderful vegetable, it will grow and produce til cold kills it. I've seen some okra plants that were so tall folks had to use small step ladders to reach the pods.
We eat it 3 way here at Starvation Plantation, the sliced, breaded and fried in oil is probably the least healthy but it tastes mighty good, Miss Joy also stir fries sliced okra into a gooey, delicious mess and of course boiling whole tender pods with a lot of butter and slightly salted is hard to beat! There is another way that is not done as often as it used to be, that being laying a big handful of young, tender pods on the top of a big pot of Southern peas, like zippers, blackeyes, purple hulls, etc.
The slimier the better!

Great photos, all.

And after you fry fish, save the oil and use it to fry okra.

Charlie

We were surprised that so many young folks use frying oil only one time! We have a stainless steel percolator with the basket that we use to strain and store used cooking oils. When it gets a bit too dark, she pours it into an empty container and into the trash. Frying fish will require changing grease pretty often. It has been many a moon since we used lard or even bacon grease to cook with. My mother was an R.N. and she instructed Miss Joy not to use too much pork fat, she told us it wasn't healthy. We use several varieties of cooking oil, peanut oil for venison (high heat), corn or canola for such as yellow squash, taters and such and then she uses olive oil for some stir fry dishes that don't require high heat.
Treefarmer

You can slice that okra and put it on a cookie sheet with some oil on top of it and salt and bake it until the edges crisp. It's pretty darn good that way too.

But I haven't found a meal yet that fried okra didn't make better.

[orvet]

Rolled in corn meal and fried, they might be good. But I think I prefer okra, fried of course. DSCN6440.JPG

That's a cute little feller you got there. We get them 5-6 inches long out here.
The slime on them is nigh unto impossible to get off your hands without soap.
I was out fishing on the Trask River and grabbed an alder sapling to steady myself over some uneven ground. I put my hand full on one of them big ones and just covered my palm and fingers with slime. After more than 5 minutes of scrubbing my hand with sand, gravel and mud from the river I got the worst of it off. Didn't get it all off till I got home and got the Lava soap!

Come to think of it, if it would have gotten the slime of my hand, I would even tried some okra! I am thinking I would prefer it fried and crisp... With Tobasco of course!

[orvet]

I was about to appologise for running somebody's okra thread off the rails until I realized it was the Outdoorsman Topic!

[Colonel26]

I was about to appologise for running somebody's okra thread off the rails until I realized it was the Outdoorsman Topic!

We have rails?

[RobesonsRme.com]

Not too sure on the history, but I suspect fried okra, note the "k", was a food that gained popularity in The South during Reconstruction and most probably a gift from African-Americans recently freed from slavery.

And no matter what else you put on your plate with fried okra, be sure to add some fresh sliced tomato.

Sarah's mom used to bread and fry okra, eggplant, squash and onion together. That is good, too.

Charlie Noyes

[doglegg]

Charlie for us it was okra, zucchini and squash rolled in corn meal and fried.