Cooking Okra for diner reminded me of the early seventies when my dad...
Cooking #Okra for diner reminded me of the early seventies when my dad used to travel all over lebanon to sell his truck full of fruit and vegetables. He would go down to Tripoli the day before, load up the truck to full capacity, come home and get an early night's sleep as he would be on his way before the break of dawn. Some days he would head to #baalbak other days to the south and other days to the mountains of #batroun. If my brother and I were lucky enough he would take us on one of the those trips with him if it happened to be the weekend. I remember this one time he took me along with him to Baalbak and because it took him much longer to sell out of all his stock we couldn't get away before it got dark. The people in Baalbak were amazingly hospitable and insisted we spent the night as it would be too dangerous for the 3 hour drive home through the deserted mountain regions back then. Spend the night we did. Most of the country folk would buy boxes of beans and okra, string them like a necklace and leave them to dry out and stored for cooking during winter. It was adventures like this one that will stay with me forever and remind me of the good times I had with my dad.wihing you all a wonderful weekend ♥️♥️
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