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I am cooking collard greens
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:50 pm
by Ritterskoop
Mom may disown me. She hates greens, and insists I did not learn this from her.
It's true. But I'm pretty sure her grandmother cooked them all the time when we visited.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:16 pm
by wbtravis007
I'm on my way.
Would noonish be okay?
I love collard greens. Hated them as a kid, though.
Hell, collard greens helped me discover that first tapeworm that I had. Maybe the second one, too. (Not sure about that, though.)
Have I ever told y'all about that?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:35 pm
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
I ate them once, at the House of Blues in NOLA. I ended up throwing them up a few hours later, so I won't ever eat them again. They got caught on my uvula.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:30 am
by Ritterskoop
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I ate them once, at the House of Blues in NOLA. I ended up throwing them up a few hours later, so I won't ever eat them again. They got caught on my uvula.
That would suck.
I had a similar experience with hominy when I was visiting my grandmother and great-grandmother when I was six. Turned out I was homesick, was why I was choking, but I never ate hominy again.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:28 am
by peacock2121
I love collard greens.
The problem I have with loving them is that in order for me to love them they have to have WAY too much fat in them.
Cracker Barrel has prefect collard greens.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:25 am
by mrkelley23
peacock2121 wrote:I love collard greens.
The problem I have with loving them is that in order for me to love them they have to have WAY too much fat in them.
Cracker Barrel has prefect collard greens.
Do they come with a fancy little badge, like Ron and Hermione got to wear?
I've never eaten collard greens. From the look of them, they can't taste too much different from the spinach and Brussels sprouts I was forced to eat as a kid. I keep trying those periodically, thinking my tastes may have "grown up." Hasn't happened yet.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:44 am
by peacock2121
mrkelley23 wrote:peacock2121 wrote:I love collard greens.
The problem I have with loving them is that in order for me to love them they have to have WAY too much fat in them.
Cracker Barrel has prefect collard greens.
Do they come with a fancy little badge, like Ron and Hermione got to wear?
You and the spell check police can bite me.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:35 am
by BackInTex
wbtravis007 wrote:I'm on my way.
Would noonish be okay?
I love collard greens. Hated them as a kid, though.
Hell, collard greens helped me discover that first tapeworm that I had. Maybe the second one, too. (Not sure about that, though.)
Have I ever told y'all about that?
Ummm....yeah, sure, you did. No need to re-tell that story.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:36 am
by Sir_Galahad
We went to a buffet once, here, and I thought they were served chopped / creamed spinach so I took some as I like that. I almost gagged when I put some in my mouth. I found out later it was collard greens. Must be an acquired taste.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:59 am
by kayrharris
peacock2121 wrote:I love collard greens.
The problem I have with loving them is that in order for me to love them they have to have WAY too much fat in them.
Cracker Barrel has prefect collard greens.
My kids love them. I can make them with no fat & taste even better than Cracker Barrel's by using bouillon cubes. It really works. Knorr makes a ham flavored bouillon. I use them for my green beans as well.
I don't eat collards just because they don't seem to like me. In Louisville, we didn't have collards but had kale, which I think tastes better than collards. I cook them for my mother everytime I go home.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:16 am
by peacock2121
Thanks, kay! I will try making them with bullion cubes next time.
I have a friend who uses left-over bacon grease. Way too gross for me.
Re: I am cooking collard greens
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:40 am
by Tocqueville3
Ritterskoop wrote:Mom may disown me. She hates greens, and insists I did not learn this from her.
It's true. But I'm pretty sure her grandmother cooked them all the time when we visited.
Skoop, try putting a little fresh nutmeg in them. They'll be fabu.
I miss FT2N.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:34 am
by otherindigo
Ritterskoop wrote:PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I ate them once, at the House of Blues in NOLA. I ended up throwing them up a few hours later, so I won't ever eat them again. They got caught on my uvula.
That would suck.
I had a similar experience with hominy when I was visiting my grandmother and great-grandmother when I was six. Turned out I was homesick, was why I was choking, but I never ate hominy again.
I'm glad someone else knows what's hominy. I LOVE it! But I guess I've never had a bad experience with it.
Greens. Bleck. When MawMaw is cooking them or cabbage, it stinks the house up. heh heh She doesn't cook them as often now since PawPaw doesn't work his "truck patch" as much as before.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:58 am
by peacock2121
Can't get hominy past my nose.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:00 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
I only eat collards on New Years Day, with pork chops and hoppin' john. And if you buy canned collards there is a good chance they were packed here.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:41 am
by peacock2121
I thought southerners ate black-eyed peas on New Years Day.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:53 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
peacock2121 wrote:I thought southerners ate black-eyed peas on New Years Day.
Always happy to contribute to your education.
Hoppin' John is the Southern United States' version of the rice and beans dish traditional throughout the Caribbean. It consists of field peas or crowder peas (black-eyed peas) and rice, with chopped onion and sliced bacon, seasoned with a bit of salt.
Some people substitute ham hock or fatback for the conventional bacon; a few use green peppers or vinegar and spices.
Smaller than black-eyed peas, field peas are used in the Low Country of South Carolina and Georgia; black-eyed peas are the norm elsewhere. Thoughout the South, eating Hoppin' John on New Year's Day is thought to bring a year filled with luck, and it's eaten by everyone.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:55 am
by plasticene
peacock2121 wrote:I thought southerners ate black-eyed peas on New Years Day.
You're absolutely correct. That's what Hoppin' John is: black-eyed peas and rice, and some other stuff for taste.
I always hated black-eyed peas when I was growing up, but I forced myself to eat them on New Year's Day. I like 'em fine now, but I would only go out of my way to eat them on New Year's.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:58 am
by peacock2121
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:peacock2121 wrote:I thought southerners ate black-eyed peas on New Years Day.
Always happy to contribute to your education.
Hoppin' John is the Southern United States' version of the rice and beans dish traditional throughout the Caribbean. It consists of field peas or crowder peas (black-eyed peas) and rice, with chopped onion and sliced bacon, seasoned with a bit of salt.
Some people substitute ham hock or fatback for the conventional bacon; a few use green peppers or vinegar and spices.
Smaller than black-eyed peas, field peas are used in the Low Country of South Carolina and Georgia; black-eyed peas are the norm elsewhere. Thoughout the South, eating Hoppin' John on New Year's Day is thought to bring a year filled with luck, and it's eaten by everyone.
I am duly edjamecated.
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:45 pm
by otherindigo
On New Years we eat:
black-eyed peas for luck (and you have to put hog jowls in the peas, have no idea why other than that's what MawMaw says)
cabbage for money
That's that soul food. My kids think it's funny that I grew up on soul food seeing as I'm white and all.
Wanted to add, of course she slaps in some corn bread and calls it a day.