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<\/a><\/p>\nWe have three special heirloom varieties for you this year. \u00a0On the left is the great Hill Country Red<\/strong>. \u00a0Yep, that’s Texas Hill Country. \u00a0It makes a fine, crisp fried okra, if that’s your style. \u00a0This is also the variety I used to make the Cheese and Bacon Okra Poppers<\/a>. \u00a0 The recipe for that is available at the market. \u00a0 Don’t be misled by its stocky shape. \u00a0We cut it young and tender.<\/p>\n In the center is Stewart’s Zeebest<\/strong>. \u00a0I know why they call it zee best. \u00a0It’s tender enough and tasty enough to enjoy it raw in your salad. \u00a0I’m thinking I’ll put some in the dehydrator and make some okra snacks for those cold winter days when okra is only a dream. \u00a0This one would also be super for pickling or okra and tomato stew.<\/p>\n On the right is our hallmark Burgundy Okra<\/strong>. \u00a0It became one of our favorite varieties last year and it still is. \u00a0As tasty as it is beautiful; great fried or pickled or any other way you enjoy your okra. \u00a0Except now, it’s so hard to choose……<\/p>\n We’ll have Fengyuan long purple Japanese Eggplant<\/strong> and the beautiful Rosa Bianca Eggplant<\/strong>. \u00a0 Texas grown “Hatch” chili peppers<\/strong>, Bell pepper<\/strong>, Fingerling potatoes<\/strong>, Kale<\/strong>, and Swiss Chard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Did I forget to mention the heirloom tomatoes? \u00a0 Oh, yeah. \u00a0They’re still producing and still beautiful! \u00a0We’ll bring Cherokee Purple<\/strong> and Black Krim.<\/strong> \u00a0Some little Black Cherry<\/strong> and Hartmann’s Gooseberry<\/strong> salad tomatoes. \u00a0And for the real chefs in the audience, San Marzano sauce tomatoes<\/strong>. \u00a0 I guess we’ll need to bring plenty of fresh Basil<\/strong> for the sauce, too.<\/p>\n I’m sure I forgot to list something, but we’ll have to wait until Saturday to figure out what it was. \u00a0 See you then. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the OKRA is ready! We have three special heirloom varieties for you this year. \u00a0On the left is the great Hill Country Red. \u00a0Yep, that’s Texas Hill Country. \u00a0It makes a fine, crisp fried…Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gopherknoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gopherknoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gopherknoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gopherknoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gopherknoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gopherknoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gopherknoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gopherknoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gopherknoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}