Tried a simple way to preparing fresh local okra, and a rather difficult way of making potatoes. Both recipes from ATK, but we sliced the okra before cooking instead of doing it whole like ATK suggests. Okra had a mild garlicky flavor with a nice fresh tomato sauce. It could have used more herbs and flavor. Got kinda slimy too.
The french fries turned out great, but we decided it wasn’t really worth the effort to fry the potatoes twice. There’s gotta be a better way to fry potatoes…