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Bob Terwilliger
Jan 21, 2012, 12:04:28 AM1/21/12
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I've posted before about potential uses for okra seeds from pods which
were allowed to grow too large. (A restaurant in North Carolina served
pickled okra seeds as part of an appetizer; Message-ID:
<003cbbbc$0$28432$c3e...@news.astraweb.com>)
Now I see the term "okra caviar" used to describe what is probably the
same kind of thing, but I can't find any good recipes for making it.
It's not a current problem, but last summer our okra plants produced
like crazy, and we didn't consume it as fast as it was being grown, so
we ended up with quite a few large woody pods -- which I'd guess is
exactly where you get the okra seeds for making this caviar stuff.
Anybody know how to make "okra caviar"?
Bob
were allowed to grow too large. (A restaurant in North Carolina served
pickled okra seeds as part of an appetizer; Message-ID:
<003cbbbc$0$28432$c3e...@news.astraweb.com>)
Now I see the term "okra caviar" used to describe what is probably the
same kind of thing, but I can't find any good recipes for making it.
It's not a current problem, but last summer our okra plants produced
like crazy, and we didn't consume it as fast as it was being grown, so
we ended up with quite a few large woody pods -- which I'd guess is
exactly where you get the okra seeds for making this caviar stuff.
Anybody know how to make "okra caviar"?
Bob
Victor Sack
Jan 21, 2012, 9:57:30 AM1/21/12
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Bob Terwilliger <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote:
You've missed a perfect opporunity to name your post "Okra ikra"!
> Anybody know how to make "okra caviar"?
I'm just guessing, but I think that would be a kind of a vegetable
"caviar", called "ikra" in Russian, just as fish roe is. I've posted
some recipes, namely "Poor man's caviar", made with aubergines
(eggplants), or with courgettes (vegetable marrow or zucchini) before.
Something on that line could surely be made with okra, which, to me at
least, tastes a bit like a cross of aubergine and green asparagus.
Victor
You've missed a perfect opporunity to name your post "Okra ikra"!
> Anybody know how to make "okra caviar"?
"caviar", called "ikra" in Russian, just as fish roe is. I've posted
some recipes, namely "Poor man's caviar", made with aubergines
(eggplants), or with courgettes (vegetable marrow or zucchini) before.
Something on that line could surely be made with okra, which, to me at
least, tastes a bit like a cross of aubergine and green asparagus.
Victor
James Silverton
Jan 21, 2012, 11:02:31 AM1/21/12
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tasted it would refer to any vegetable imitation as "caviar". Salmon and
whitefish eggs are not bad but that's as far as I would go using the
caviar name.
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ImStillMags
Jan 21, 2012, 3:21:49 PM1/21/12
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On Jan 20, 9:04 pm, Bob Terwilliger <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz>
wrote:
wrote:
> I've posted before about potential uses for okra seeds from pods which
> were allowed to grow too large. (A restaurant in North Carolina served
> pickled okra seeds as part of an appetizer; Message-ID:
> <003cbbbc$0$28432$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>)
> were allowed to grow too large. (A restaurant in North Carolina served
> pickled okra seeds as part of an appetizer; Message-ID:
>
> Now I see the term "okra caviar" used to describe what is probably the
> same kind of thing, but I can't find any good recipes for making it.
> It's not a current problem, but last summer our okra plants produced
> like crazy, and we didn't consume it as fast as it was being grown, so
> we ended up with quite a few large woody pods -- which I'd guess is
> exactly where you get the okra seeds for making this caviar stuff.
>
> Anybody know how to make "okra caviar"?
>
> Bob
Did you save some seeds to plant this year?
> Now I see the term "okra caviar" used to describe what is probably the
> same kind of thing, but I can't find any good recipes for making it.
> It's not a current problem, but last summer our okra plants produced
> like crazy, and we didn't consume it as fast as it was being grown, so
> we ended up with quite a few large woody pods -- which I'd guess is
> exactly where you get the okra seeds for making this caviar stuff.
>
> Anybody know how to make "okra caviar"?
>
> Bob
Giusi
Jan 21, 2012, 5:12:33 PM1/21/12
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"Melba's Jammin'" <barbsc...@earthlink.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
> And I'm pretty sure <grin> that Bubba Vic has eaten the finest caviar
> (made from fish roe). Probably in Russia.
Caviar and limousines were what the Arab clients used to throw at us in the
70s and 80s. I like limousines and hate caviar.
Steve Pope
Jan 21, 2012, 5:13:41 PM1/21/12
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Giusi <deco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Caviar and limousines were what the Arab clients used to throw at us in the
>70s and 80s. I like limousines and hate caviar.
Both are environmentally incorrect.
>Caviar and limousines were what the Arab clients used to throw at us in the
>70s and 80s. I like limousines and hate caviar.
Steve
Giusi
Jan 21, 2012, 5:19:19 PM1/21/12
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"Steve Pope" <spo...@speedymail.org> ha scritto nel messaggio
>>Caviar and limousines were what the Arab clients used to throw at us in
>>the
>>70s and 80s. I like limousines and hate caviar.
>
> Both are environmentally incorrect.
What? I should walk with my assistants from the airport to downtown?
>>the
>>70s and 80s. I like limousines and hate caviar.
>
> Both are environmentally incorrect.
Anyway, my environment has changed and I don't even see limousines anymore.
sf
Jan 21, 2012, 6:07:36 PM1/21/12
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:12:33 +0100, "Giusi" <deco...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I'll take your caviar.
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Victor Sack
Jan 22, 2012, 5:33:36 PM1/22/12
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James Silverton <jim.si...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Victor Sack wrote:
> >
> > I'm just guessing, but I think that would be a kind of a vegetable
> > "caviar", called "ikra" in Russian, just as fish roe is.
>
caviar than all the posters in the history of rfc combined. Vegetable
ikra (caviar) is not supposed to imitate fish eggs in taste. It is
called so because it often looks somewhat like traditionally made
pressed sturgeon caviar. In Russia, it has been caled so for centuries,
since the time when caviar was probably rather less expensive than, for
example, the exotic aubergines imported from Turkey or some such place.
Vegetable caviars of various kinds, particularly those from aubergines
(eggplants) and marrow (zucchini) have been - and still are - ubiquitous
in Russia. They can be found in Germany easily enough and I happen to
have a jar of commercial aubergine caviar in my refrigerator right now.
Victor
> Victor Sack wrote:
> >
> > I'm just guessing, but I think that would be a kind of a vegetable
> > "caviar", called "ikra" in Russian, just as fish roe is.
>
> I've had real Caspian caviar a few times and, only someone who'd never
> tasted it would refer to any vegetable imitation as "caviar". Salmon and
> whitefish eggs are not bad but that's as far as I would go using the
> caviar name.
Not that it matters very much, but I may well have eaten more sturgeon
> tasted it would refer to any vegetable imitation as "caviar". Salmon and
> whitefish eggs are not bad but that's as far as I would go using the
> caviar name.
caviar than all the posters in the history of rfc combined. Vegetable
ikra (caviar) is not supposed to imitate fish eggs in taste. It is
called so because it often looks somewhat like traditionally made
pressed sturgeon caviar. In Russia, it has been caled so for centuries,
since the time when caviar was probably rather less expensive than, for
example, the exotic aubergines imported from Turkey or some such place.
Vegetable caviars of various kinds, particularly those from aubergines
(eggplants) and marrow (zucchini) have been - and still are - ubiquitous
in Russia. They can be found in Germany easily enough and I happen to
have a jar of commercial aubergine caviar in my refrigerator right now.
Victor
Jean B.
Jan 23, 2012, 9:45:22 PM1/23/12
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information if you look up "pickled nasturtium seeds", which are
often mentioned as a caper substitute.
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Jean B.
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