The sunny South

[Ouachita]

My grandmother made this dish too when she didn't feel like frying it. It's nasty!

Like a bowl of chunky snot, although I preferred it to her vomit casserole (squash mush yuck).

 

[Ky hills]

Like a bowl of chunky snot, although I preferred it to her vomit casserole (squash mush yuck).

Squash mush, reminds me of what my grandmother just called squash. She’d take bigger more mature yellow crook neck squash and run it through a colander then cook it with cream and butter, a little salt and pepper. Kind of like puréed squash or mush but I liked it. We had that pretty often during the summer.
Occasionally she’d fix a squash casserole, just replace broccoli with yellow squash the rest of the recipe was the same.

 

[4hfarms]

Squash mush, reminds me of what my grandmother just called squash. She’d take bigger more mature yellow crook neck squash and run it through a colander then cook it with cream and butter, a little salt and pepper. Kind of like puréed squash or mush but I liked it. We had that pretty often during the summer.
Occasionally she’d fix a squash casserole, just replace broccoli with yellow squash the rest of the recipe was the same.

I learned about yellow squash when I moved to Florida. It was used in everything in the restraunts I worked. Salads, baked, stir fry. The mild tase blends well with seafood pasta dishes.

 

[greybeard]

I don't know anyone who eats boiled okra. Okra is fried or pickled down here.

here too, unless some cajun throws it in 'a gumbo'.

 

[greybeard]

All that mushy food they serve across the Old South now? I think that comes from back in the day, when no adults had any teeth.

 

[AmandaQ]

Like a bowl of chunky snot, although I preferred it to her vomit casserole (squash mush yuck).

Did we have the same Mamaw??

 

[Travlr]

People in the north do not pretend they like boiled okra.

I like the little okra fresh out of the garden, and raw. The ones that are under an inch long. Otherwise I usually make gumbo with okra or mix it with rice and black-eyed peas. I wish I had a good breading recipe for it. I'd like to do it fried and maybe do some fried zucchini.

 

[Ky hills]

I like the little okra fresh out of the garden, and raw. The ones that are under an inch long. Otherwise I usually make gumbo with okra or mix it with rice and black-eyed peas. I wish I had a good breading recipe for it. I'd like to do it fried and maybe do some fried zucchini.

Have you tried fried yellow squash?
I don’t know the exact recipe but, I believe my mother just used cornmeal, and probably a little flour mixed in.

 

[4hfarms]

Squash and zucchini and pickles are awesome fried! Maybe okra?

Egg wash= scrambled egg, uncooked ofcourse, with milk, 1/2&1/2 or whipping cream. Thicker is better for my taste. Adds a sweetness to it.

Breading= flour, salt, pepper, garlic or what ever you want it to taste like.
Ie: steak seasoning, Jamaican jerk etc.

Cover in flour, then dip it in eggwash then cover with the seasoned flour again.

Oil about an inch or two of your choice about 350deg.

Fry til golden and remove from oil.

Drain on baking grid. Could use paper towels to drain but they don't get too crunchy.

Dips are endless.... whatever your taste enjoy.

With beer........

 

[greybeard]

The egg is not there for taste..it's there for a binder, to hold the breading together and hold the breading on to the yucky stuff just as it is for chicken fried....'anything'. Otherwise, when you dropped the cornmeal/flour covered slimy assed okra into the hot oil or hot grease, the meal/flour (and most of the seasonings) would all immediately fall off and go floating away like dust in the wind.