HILLBILLY KITCHENS ..
DOWN ON THE FARM COOKING FROM THE BACK WOODS OF ARKANSAS..
The correct gathering and preparing of...
WILD POKE SALAT. (yuck)
In Arkansas at the earliest of springtime growth.. you get for yourself.. a brown paper bag like they used to give you at the grocery stores until someone actually thought it was better for the ecology if we used plastic ones( wonder who this einstein was.. the guy who manufacturers plastic grocery bags perhaps)
and you take your whitrock, and you sharpen up a paring knife that has the tip broken off, cause somebody used it for a screwdriver. Thus prepared, you head out into the woods behind your house... in every opening where there is any sunlight at all.. especially around fence posts.. you will see these green shoots jumping out of the ground.. they are easy to recognize.. nothing else is growing yet!
You need to time this just right.. cause if you let em get too big.. they are kind of poison a little bit! hehehe
Anyway you cut 'em off at the top of the ground, and continue until you get your sackis about half full.. then you trudge back through the green briers to the house where you wash and wash and wash.. cause they are prone to get lice on them.. the polk.. not me silly!
Then you put it in a pot on the stove with water and lots of salt.. and you boil it.. and you watch me go out the backdoor cause it smells like your are boiling old gym socks!
Then you take it out of the water when it looks like something that a cat hacked up, and put it in a frying pan.. and then you put an egg on top of it and scramble it into it.. thereby hashing it.
My father could eat his weight in this stuff...
In Arkansas at the earliest of springtime growth.. you get for yourself.. a brown paper bag like they used to give you at the grocery stores until someone actually thought it was better for the ecology if we used plastic ones( wonder who this einstein was.. the guy who manufacturers plastic grocery bags perhaps)
and you take your whitrock, and you sharpen up a paring knife that has the tip broken off, cause somebody used it for a screwdriver. Thus prepared, you head out into the woods behind your house... in every opening where there is any sunlight at all.. especially around fence posts.. you will see these green shoots jumping out of the ground.. they are easy to recognize.. nothing else is growing yet!
You need to time this just right.. cause if you let em get too big.. they are kind of poison a little bit! hehehe
Anyway you cut 'em off at the top of the ground, and continue until you get your sackis about half full.. then you trudge back through the green briers to the house where you wash and wash and wash.. cause they are prone to get lice on them.. the polk.. not me silly!
Then you put it in a pot on the stove with water and lots of salt.. and you boil it.. and you watch me go out the backdoor cause it smells like your are boiling old gym socks!
Then you take it out of the water when it looks like something that a cat hacked up, and put it in a frying pan.. and then you put an egg on top of it and scramble it into it.. thereby hashing it.
My father could eat his weight in this stuff...
one bite and the laxative effective is enough to last me for 24 hours! hehee
As you might guess, my Dad grew up in the time of The Great Depression
As you might guess, my Dad grew up in the time of The Great Depression
.. tomorrow ...
Lambs Quarters.. nope it ain't sheep!
lmbooooooooooooo now this hear series of FINE southern quesssssssineee... is bout enufs ta git this hearrr lil southern honeybee all a flutterzz.. Im purtin neerzzzzzz as joyful as my cousin Barney creatinz his moonshine and dodging them thar revenooers come paydayz!! Hehehe Love this.. brings me back... shure enufs!!!
ReplyDeleteI really do have a cousin named Barney who makes Moonshine !! :)
ReplyDeleteYum Pazz The Cornbread Plz
ReplyDeleteAint nothin like fresh greens.
ReplyDeleteYummy, polk salad, mustard greens, collard greens, hmmmmmmm with salt pork cooked in, hmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteArkansas is weird,that's why nobody sees any aliens there.
ReplyDeleteWhat alien would be crazy enough to visit a redneck place like Arkansas? LOL
O NO! I've had poke salad before cooked with eggs...........and I didnt like it not one bit! LOL But I do like thistle though.......you gather it in the spring just when the bud appears but not after it's open, you cut the top off and cut the leaves off before seperating it at the ground......then you peel off the outer shell which is a little tough and eat the heart and it tastes like sweet celery and has much the same texture sorta! Hope you have a great thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteDarlin! I love this stuff! Ever since my Granny taught me how to gather and cook it I have loved it... you can continue to eat it as long as the stems aren't red and you use the new leaves, but you always have to pour off the water three or four times and add more and keep boiling ...and I put a little bacon fat in mine and eat it like spinach...YUCK to the eggs and skillet. BARF. My Depression-child Dad liked to (URP) crumble up white bread into a glass and pour milk on it and eat it with a spoon.
ReplyDeleteEureka Springs isn't rednecky at all. I never even hear an accent here. You have to go to Berryville for that.
ReplyDeleteThe plants you show are too old to eat.
ReplyDeleteOh, and- AHHH EEE AHHH EEE AHHHH, EEE AAAH EEEE AHHHHH!
ReplyDeleteYes, I have seen these. Have never met anyone that ate it. I was always told not good for eating, cause it could be poison. Now I understand.. not going to eat it.. but i have seen this plant before.
ReplyDeleteNever tasted it, but you are right, I don't think I would like to, lol.
ReplyDeleteHave a great day lockie!
Talk to me!
ReplyDeleteHim or you decide this?
out.. out??
Messenger is on.. if you want to talk.
Delete this to keep questions away.. LOVE YOU!!
Couldn't you just chew on some tree bark?
ReplyDeletePerhaps a wee bit of sasparilla? or maybe a birch twig or root?
Or how about those old leather boots sitting in the corner? You could gnaw on them for a week!