I am cooking collard greens
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I am cooking collard greens
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.
It's true. But I'm pretty sure her grandmother cooked them all the time when we visited.
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That would suck.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.
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.
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Do they come with a fancy little badge, like Ron and Hermione got to wear?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.

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.
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You and the spell check police can bite me.mrkelley23 wrote:Do they come with a fancy little badge, like Ron and Hermione got to wear?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.![]()
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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Re: I am cooking collard greens
Skoop, try putting a little fresh nutmeg in them. They'll be fabu.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.
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I'm glad someone else knows what's hominy. I LOVE it! But I guess I've never had a bad experience with it.Ritterskoop wrote:That would suck.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.
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.
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.
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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.
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feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Always happy to contribute to your education.peacock2121 wrote:I thought southerners ate black-eyed peas on New Years Day.
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.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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You're absolutely correct. That's what Hoppin' John is: black-eyed peas and rice, and some other stuff for taste.peacock2121 wrote:I thought southerners ate black-eyed peas on New Years Day.
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.
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I am duly edjamecated.themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Always happy to contribute to your education.peacock2121 wrote:I thought southerners ate black-eyed peas on New Years Day.
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.
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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.
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.