Yes, I've eaten fried calamari. They are delicious.

Baby squids for my wife. No pics though.

Recipe for the Okra, please.

I would need to ask my sister for specifics, but it's just salt, pepper, olive oil, and cayenne pepper (if you want it spicy). Then just bake to the desired crisp.

Call me a nutter if you like but when I'm making a fruit salad I add a bit garam masala or even standard curry powder.
as long as you don't overdo it and leave it to sit a couple of hours it takes on a lovely spiced flavour (like mulled wine) and doesn't taste "curry" at all.
really good if you've got some ripe banana in there too.

I commend it to the house.

mind you I like tomatoes, sweet peppers and cucumber in my fruit salads as well




(I'll get me coat,....)

Sounds rather interesting and might be quite good. I wouldn't mind trying it, if you make it for me. :D I may make it taste nasty. I've tried Indian snacks(nuts, cereal, chips, etc) where they add Indians spices. They were really good.

For you Buster. Recipe grabbed from Allrecipes.com:

Ingredients

Original recipe makes 3 servings

18 fresh okra pods, sliced 1/3 inch thick
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons kosher salt, or to taste
2 teaspoons black pepper, or to taste

Directions

Preheat an oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
Arrange the okra slices in one layer on a foil lined cookie sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes.

Thanks. I looked at a few, one called for some millet flour. WTF. Wonder if frozen okra would work?

I googled it and found a blog where a woman roast frozen okra, no thawing necessary. She did say that to bake it longer, like 25-30 minutes.

Any frozen vegetable is going to come out mushier than if you roast it fresh. The freezing breaks down the cell walls. But maybe with Buster's teeth issues, softer is better. :)

True dat.:jig:

Okra is soft, even at its "crunchiest."

ps, for my spicy fruit salad I fill a leakproof plastic tub, add slugs of cider/wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil in roughly 1:2 proportion (rather than the vinaigrette proportion of 1:4 or 1:5) then take it to work for my lunch.

Bruce had asked once aboit the portion of sushi. My cousin invted us out tonight. I forgot to take pix of the first 5 dishes. I got these from the second round of order. I also tried fuji apple cold sake, which was yummy.
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Are they all for you or shared.