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I bought another 10 pounds of fresh picked okra this morning. I spent a couple hours canning half of it and placed the other half in the fridge.

We love okra pretty much any way we can get it and I probably will be putting more in the freezer before this season is over. It should be coming in good and plentiful through October, so we have time.

Today I concentrated on canning though. Pickles are a great snack and side dish. But cucumber pickles just don’t hold a candle to pickled okra! The flavor, size and crunch simply beat cucs hands down.

I use a simple Recipe of salt, vinegar, pepper, dill seed and garlic. It took about 2 hours from start to finish with most of that time waiting on the water bath to boil and process. My canner holds 9 pints so I had to water bath two times to complete 12 pints.

Remember to always use new “flats” lids. That way you are ensured a quick firm pop signifying the jar is sealed for storage.

The new dehydrator will be here tomorrow. My plan is to dehydrate the remainder of today’s crop then. I’ll post about that later.