Collards are in the pot!

[fiasconva]

We bought 12 lbs of collards from a local farmer advertising on Craigslist a couple of days ago. We called him up and he said to give him our order, he would go out into his field and cut them, and call us when they were ready. He called us later that afternoon and we picked them up. Beautiful collards and you can't get them any fresher than that. Cooked them early because of dr's appointments next week but a little taste of them knocked out socks off. We'll freeze them until Thursday and take them over for our family dinner. Just finished off a cup of pot likker too. BTW, if you haven't ever tried the cabbage collard variety of them you should. They are fantastic.

 

[Rustyt1953]

We enjoy collard greens and they definitely let their presence be known before, during and after.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I would never eat that junk! Then as I got older and needed to change my eating habits, I started getting collards instead of fries with my ribs at City BBQ! They use lots of smoked pork shoulder in the pot. I've started eating them at home also, from a can and doctored with bacon! When we have leftovers from City BBQ, my wife likes to mix them in a large batch of scrambled eggs. (Kind of a redneck quiche!) I still won't touch cooked spinach!

Ivan

 

[jeffrefrig]

Okay. I'm 65, have heard of collards & collard greens (I assume they are different phases of a collard's life), but what is a collard? I would think greens to be similar to spinach, but what is a collard? Besides chicken, what do they taste like?

 

[Chuck24]

Okay. I'm 65, have heard of collards & collard greens (I assume they are different phases of a collard's life), but what is a collard? I would think greens to be similar to spinach, but what is a collard? Besides chicken, what do they taste like?

Green, leafy plant, similar in ways to kale and spinach. Prepared properly they are very tasty, however what constitutes prepared properly in the South, probably means they're not all that healthy anymore.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Yep, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, kale, spinach and poke sallet done right are all seriously good eats.

 

[Chuck24]

If you refrigerate them after cooking, and the next morning there's not an inch of congealed grease on the top, you didn't do it right.

 

[CH4]

If cooked properly, collard greens are as healthy as a cheeseburger and fries. I'll take the latter

 

[johngalt]

If cooked properly, collard greens are as healthy as a cheeseburger and fries. I'll take the latter

Near as I can tell, collard greens are primarily a vehicle for carrying bacon grease.

 

[snowman]

I used to eat them regularly in the cafeteria at grad school in SC, and didn't care for them much. But I suspect if they had been fixed differently I would have liked them. We had excellent cooks there, but as I recall they only added maybe a little salt, pepper, and oil to the chopped greens and that was it. Those things need some bacon & other goodies mixed in, I believe.

Regards,
Andy

 

[Old 44 Guy]

They are very good when cooked right with bacon.

 

[CH4]

Near as I can tell, collard greens are primarily a vehicle for carrying bacon grease.

That's what I am gathering.
I'd rather get my grease straight from the bacon, beef and cheese; I get my green from guacamole.

 

[rockquarry]

Like other cooked greens, best with a dose of Tabasco or other favorite hot pepper sauce. Cooked greens (or a meal) without a little fire is indeed dull.

 

[Onomea]

Don't recall ever having any collards, but fresh cooked spinach is a favorite.

 

[ladder13]

Had em twice, that's enough, prefer spinach,raw.

 

[kmyers]

Just about any kind of greens is good and then you add in the cornbread and potlicker.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Greens is good and good for ya!
Although I LIKE greens, my favorite is smothered cabbage. I can eat that stuff all day.

 

[rockquarry]

Regarding spinach...the only way I care for it cooked is in a baked souffle with beaten eggs and cheese. Raw spinach, however, is excellent in a salad and makes a much tastier salad than boring and tasteless iceberg lettuce.
Raw spinanch flavor is surpringly good, no comparison with cooked spinach. The mature spinach is a better choice than baby spinach which lacks flavor.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I would never eat that junk! Then as I got older and needed to change my eating habits, I started getting collards instead of fries with my ribs at City BBQ! They use lots of smoked pork shoulder in the pot. I've started eating them at home also, from a can and doctored with bacon! When we have leftovers from City BBQ, my wife likes to mix them in a large batch of scrambled eggs. (Kind of a redneck quiche!) I still won't touch cooked spinach!

Ivan

There is a City BBQ two blocks away from one of my doctor's. Every visit must end with lunch there.

Everything on the menu is but I could live on the peach cobbler.

 

[Kinman]

Never ate collard greens until I went to Virginia for advanced military training. Ate at a soul food cafe every chance I got and learned to love collards and fatback bacon with cornbread. We ate young stinging nettles for greens when I was a kid in Northern Idaho, that and fresh dandelion greens picked while the dew was still on them. I'd rather eat beet greens than beets themselves, and used to love it when it was thinning time, spinach has always been a favorite we keep bags of frozen spinach at the ready. I've even eaten Poke greens, one of my step dads was from Arkansas and attempted to grow Poke up here in Eastern Washington, he was successful.