Monday, December 22, 2014

Collards

Via Sioux "I just fixed my first-ever batch of collard greens- made them with a smoked turkey wing- delish!"

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  1. get some side meat from Nahunta pork center in beautiful downtown Nahunta nc or they have a store at the farmers market in Raleigh.please don't commit this sacrilege again and squeeze all the juice out while your at it.your friend truckwilkins

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  2. This is so exciting, yet so Yankee dumb. Why haven't I ever tried doing this before??? I was always intimidated by the amount of collards involved in a proper pot full. Then I found a recipe with one bunch of collards and one large smoked turkey wing - still too much for one person, but great the second day, too ;) Y'all come up and help me eat 'em!

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  3. The secret to good collards;
    Don't pick them until after the first frost
    Cook with a smoked ham hock (not turkey) HAM, like in Mo-HAM-ed
    Serve with some hot pepper vinegar drizzled over them and some home made cornbread and a pot of pinto beans and some iced tea (sweet) or some buttermilk, oh yea some fried chicken would go nice with that too.

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    1. vinegar

      Reminds me of my grandmother who raised me from 13 months when my mother died until I was five and my aunt adopted me. She always put vinegar on the green beans when she served them. Anyone else familiar with this? I haven't seen it elsewhere.

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    2. Cook with smoked neck bones.

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  4. I am all about sacrilege when it comes to using turkey wings - way more meaty smoky goodness. I did sprinkle both some vinegar and Frank's hot sauce on my bowl tonight. I made my own cornbread, but didn't have any pinto beans on hand. What does truckwilkins mean by "squeezing all the juice out"? Isn't that the potlicker?

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    1. I believe so and some people use it for the next batch, but since I'm an eater and not a cooker, I wouldn't know......except if they're good or not! :)

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  5. Turnips. And don't forget the pepper sauce and hot water corn bread! Pot liquor is da best!

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  6. Pot liquor - now I know how to spell it - thanks!

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