Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
ham 'n okra
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
Ham 'N Okra
Ingredients:
1 meaty ham bone or 3 large ham hocks
3 cups water
1 and 1/2 pounds butter beans, fresh -or-
2 [sixteen ounce] cans butter beans, drained
2 tablespoons Crisco or other solid shortenin'
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 pound okra, washed and sliced thin
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon pepper
Instructions:
1) Put the ham bone and water in a large saucepan.
2) Cover pan and bring to a full boil.
3) Reduce heat. Simmer and cook, covered, for forty-five minutes.
3) Remove the ham bone from the pan.
4) Pull the meat off the bone, shred it fine,
then return both the meat and the bone to the pan.
5) Wash the butter beans and add 'em to pan.
6) Heat to simmerin'.
7) Stir in the remainin' ingredients, and simmer 'til the beans
and the okra are tender.
8) Discard bone and serve.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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