September, 5, 2015

Cooking Collard Greens

In my 35 years of living in Mississippi, I never cooked a collard green, did not even eat many, if I was a guest and I was served greens, I ate them....but did not developed a hankering for them....not like some southern dishes.

This spring I planted a patch of collards. Those collards were much pampered, in hopes they would reach a size that would be suitable for making a concrete leaf. As the one in the picture below.  I found it in Bob Kemp's Compost pile years ago.

                           I am quite disappointed they never grew to my expectations.

                                So I whacked them off and fix'n to boil them in a pot!

I text two of my Mississippi buddies Lindsey and Jacqueline asked how to cook collards...Lindsey had never cooked them either! I could not believe it! until I remembered she spent much of her youth in the North...even attended college in Chicago for a time. 

  But Jac knew how to cook them!

Onion sauteed in bacon grease, then add chicken broth and ham hock.... cook a while then add the collards.   Must take Stems out. "Stems are tough." Jac said

 And apparently you can not have collards with out Cornbread....Because she added "don't forget the cornbread!!" 

The collards were delicious!     Super Yummy!

That is it from here on The Avenue....