I like it best fried and then in pickles. But since I'm trying to cut down on the fried stuff and I don't have time to do the pickles, I've been doing the gumbo with rice thing. Okra is about the only thing that did well in my garden this year.
GRASS did really well around my house this year, but that's as far as I got...moved in last fall and WAS planning on putting in lots of flowers this spring, but then Mom was diagnosed and my world went haywire, so I never got around to it.
My house is built into a hillside (the only level ground is a little strip between the house and the road), so I may never have a garden. Sigh! I'd like to have SOMEthing. Maybe one day I'll get ambitious and tier part of the slope so I can have snow peas or some other fairly simple-to-grow vegetables.