This is my first year for okra, too. How do you fry it? Just olive oil, or do you coat it? The fellow gardener at the community garden gave me 3 little plants a bit late in the season, and he eats them raw. They are planted by the sweet potatoes and thumbing their noses at the rest of the unproductive garden and growing like they mean business. Looks like I might get some to try after all.