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!
