Re: Re: Collards~what to do??

January 7, 2012

Actually if you read the book Nourishing Traditions you'll find the way we used to eat in Tennessee was healthy. And enjoyable.Sent from my iPadOn Jan 7, 2012, at 4:50 PM, tuzahu973@... wrote: ok, this isn't healthy but this is how I ate Collards as a kid in Tennessee. We had an outhouse and well in the back yard, running water was meaning one of the kids ran to the well and drew it up, running back to the house with a bucket of water. We would fry the collards in bacon grease, add the crisp bacon, some sugar and vinegar and serve with a sliced hard boiled egg. It was sooooo good. We'd fry up a 'mess' of greens. Biscuits on the side, maybe some fried ham, but the greens were the best. We'd use all types of greens and fry them, really, anything cooked in bacon grease is good!! We lived on a dirt road, the greens would grow along the road or along railroad tracks. We'd go out with pillow cases and fill them up to bring home to eat. Along the tracks we'd find loads of sponge mushrooms, oh boy that was a treat fried up. I still do it now and then for my friends who never heard of greens, collards, turnip tops, etc. Of course now I juice them and love them. The dark greens I know are good for me. Love to find them in the wild again, now in the Arizona desert they are bought in the store.

January 7, 2012

>>We lived on a dirt road, the greens would grow along the road or along railroad tracks. <<Sounds like what we call "poke salad" in East Texas. Mmmmmm good!!! You can still see cars parked along those country roads and people out harvesting those

greens with their mouth's watering all the time.Bro & Billie

January 8, 2012

That idea is a keeper!Rena

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On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:33 PM, busymomothree <mich_hamilton@...> wrote:

I've never bought collards, but here is what I do when my spinach is starting to get too old and wilty.

Throw it in the vitamix and puree it. I then cover my mini muffin pan with plastic wrap. I fill each little hole with the spinach making sure the plastic wrap sinks down into the hole.

Pop the muffin pan into the freezer for several hours. Once frozen, I peel them off the plastic wrap and throw them in a ziplock bag and they go back into the freezer. That way I can throw a little bit of spinach into anything and I don't end up with any wasted spinach.

BTW - my mini muffin pan is nonstick coated and I tried putting the spinach directly into it without the plastic wrap and it was difficult to get it out.

January 8, 2012

I don't "fry" greens, and I don't always use meat. I cook mine

starting with a bit of olive oil to saute a bunch of onion

(probably a medium onion per 2 bunches of greens). I get the onion

translucent, add garlic near the end, then pack all the washed and

torn or cut greens (I happen to like the stems, but each to their

own). Then I add enough chicken broth (you could easily use veggie

based broth) to let them steam. I often add a spoonful of cider

vinegar while cooking as I have heard it helps free up calcium for

absorption. I eat when tender. We do eat meat, so I add diced smoked

turkey from deli, but you certainly don't have to. They are good

without meat.

Velda

On 1/8/2012 12:04 PM, Verria wrote:

Collards fried in bacon grease sounds really good, but I haven't

eat fried foods for years and I gave up meat long ago. Hmmm,

wonder if anyone has come up with a meatless, fryless version of

this recipe......LOL!

January 9, 2012

I use collards with the stem cut off in a salad with other lettuce and greens. I cut them bite size.