Becker Greens

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Guyon

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Prep time. Taking out the stalks.

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Turnip and mustard greens ready for a bath.

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Some chop chop.

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Of course, I had to cook some bacon. Duh.

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In the bacon grease, I fried up some salt pork.

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Into the pot go grease, pork, turnips, greens, water, and some salt.

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Almost ready for cornbread and pepper sauce.

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Is it weird that I've never had greens in my life? I've never even been in a position to eat them.
 
Guyon said:
Usually, I'm seated with a fork or spoon in hand. However, I'll eat turnip greens upside down and naked.
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Smartass.
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Hey, I grew up in AZ and UT. I've had Mexican food full of green peppers that would melt your fillings and green Jello full of pineapple and carrots, but I've never even seen a mustard green before.
 
The only time I put sugar in my cornbread is when I eat greens. I put Tasso and diced yellow onions in my greens.
 
I really miss the south, especially the people and the food. What's not to love about a salad cooked in bacon grease and simmered in pork! There's a saying about southern women killing their husbands off one meal at a time... but what a way to go. Me I married a northern woman... got married in SE Tennessee. ;) Cornbread or hush puppies? I wonder what I can find around here for greens, you've gone and gotten me nostalgic... and hungry!

Erik
 
Bacon and Bacon grease will make any thing taste like the bomb. Use bacon in my green beans and peas all the time. Great flavor additive.
 
I eat greens all the time, always have. use to eat them atleast 5 times a week, im from the south but in the north and still going strong. i eat em atleast once a week these days and honestly the best thing you can throw in some greens is neckbones. a slice or 2 of bacon goes into the pot for flavor as well as some peppers, garlic salt, and a lil vinegar but without the neckbones its missing some of its magic.

Fried chicken, collards with neckbones, sweet corn bread with some sweet tea and a completly quiet room = love

Seeing a northerners face as they ask how a vegetable can be greasy = priceless :)
 
So, um, Guyon, sorry if this is off topic but how do you like the knives? I'm trying to justify buying another set of kitchen knives. Also hoping they go on sale someplace but seeing as how they seem to be selling out, doubt I'll find a sale anywhere.
 
We had ham over the holidays and did the same thing: kale, potatoes, ham, chicken stock. Without the bacon grease, this is one of the healthiest things you can eat.
 
mmm, greens and mushrooms cooked in bacon grease :D
 
My father was from Alabama and my mother is from New England. She liked to cook and learned every recipe that her mother-in-law could teach her. I grew up in New England and had a lot of fun telling my friends about eating cornbread, collard greens, sweet potatoes, mustard greens, chicken and dumplins, fried chicken and other good stuff. Man, now I'm hungry.
 
that looks pretty dang tasty. We cook up collards all the time pretty much like this too. sometimes throw in a hamhock along with the bacon, thats good eatin man.
 
We serve collard greens at my job. On new years day we had quite a few folks coming in for greens, black eye peas, and ham of some sort. These look good n' proper.
 
bemo said:
So, um, Guyon, sorry if this is off topic but how do you like the knives? I'm trying to justify buying another set of kitchen knives. Also hoping they go on sale someplace but seeing as how they seem to be selling out, doubt I'll find a sale anywhere.
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The knives are great. Another set is supposed to follow, but with this first set, I believe Ethan chose four knives that he deems essential to a working kitchen.

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