Add all ingredients except rice into a crock pot and set on low. After 6 hours, add 2 cups rice. Let cook two more hours.Take everything and throw it out back on the compost pile because the okra ruined everything.
LOL! I like okra!
LOL! Triple LOL!
More seriously, I prepare food in advance, and usually have a vegie stew with white jasmine rice on Christmas eve.
Away with diets and heathy eating! I eat wholemeal rice for the rest of the year.
The left over jasmine rice appears the next day made into a rice salad, served with roast meats.