Okra, corn and tomato melange

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 Bacon; fried crisp
4 tablespoons Bacon drippings; drained
1 Onion; chopped fine
3 cups Okra; cut up
4 Tomatoes; peeled and diced
2 Corn; scraped
½ Green bell pepper; chopped
1 teaspoon Sugar
Salt and pepper; to taste
1 dash Tabasco sauce

Directions

Stir onion and okra in bacon drippings, add corn kernels, and cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Add tomatoes, green pepper and seasonings.

Cover and simmer until done (about 25 minutes) stirring occasionally.

Correct seasoning, pour into serving dish and sprinkle with crumbled bacon.

NOTES : This is a wonderful summertime recipe when you can get all ingredients fresh (either homegrown or from a neighborhood vegetable stand.

) We have a good one not too far from our house. It's not open long, but for a while in the summer, the fresh produce is great! Lou Parris lbparris@... 1/97

Contributor: The Southern Junior League Cookbook Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 585 by P&S Gruenwald <sitm@...> on Jan 23, 1998

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