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My wife is currently in Fl, leaving me with no expectations but my own. So---last weekend I took a ham bone out of the freezer----put that in a pot of water with a big bunch of collard greens and let them simmer away for about 4 hours with only fish sauce and white vinegar added to the pot. About an hour before dinner I added a few red skin potatoes and fresh ground pepper. Fed me handsomely for the weekend
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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"Ham hocks and collard greens...
Hot cornbread and butter beans..." - Old country menu...
...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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And that's what I like about the South!Originally Posted by Truckman
"Ham hocks and collard greens...
Hot cornbread and butter beans..."
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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I cooked up a mess of Collards last week. A check of the freezer told me I was out of ham and hocks both, so I used bacon instead. A bit of garlic, some chopped onions, black pepper, Tony Cachere's Creole seasoning and a few squirts of Louisiana red went into the pot. Simmered for a few hours and YUM!!!!
Of course, cornbread is mandatory with Collards, I did a skillet of that, too..
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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No offense intended, and I know this is a sacrilege to you guys but I am not a big fan of corn bread. I will eat it when someone else makes it but I don't make it myself.
Collards is something that has come to Yankee world rather recently and I love the flavor as well as the health aspect of them. It is an extra bonus for us to have fresh greens in the dead of winter.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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How odd! It was only yesterday that I dredged up That’s What I Like About The South from my earliest memories and it stuck in my mind repeating over and over. I always loved this phrase
Did I tell you about the place called Do-I-Ditty
It ain't no town and it ain't no city
It's just awful small but awful pretty
With Do-I-Ditty
When I play it in my mind I hear the Phil Harris version —
https://youtu.be/A_dK0W0qfRo
Last edited by wacojoe; 02-09-2018 at 07:38 PM.
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Ya, but you don't have scrapple
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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SCrapple?
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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You may have never had good cornbread before. There is a lot of poor or bad cornbread around. I have never had good Collard Greens though. I have to leave the house if someone makes them.
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It is our tip of the hat to your cornbread!
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Corn Bread
You never put sugar in corn bread and you always bake it in an iron skillet. White corn meal is much better too.
My corn bread recipe —
1 1/2 cup white corn meal (must be fine grind WHITE corn meal - Aunt Jemima is perfect)
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 eggs
1 3/4 cup buttermilk
1/2 t. baking soda
1T. baking powder
1t. salt
2 T. bacon fat
Mix the dry ingredients throughly, then mix the wet ingredients in but lightly adding the warm bacon fat from a heated 10” cast iron skillet at the end. Pour the mix in the skillet which has been rewarmed and bake ~25 minutes in a 450 degree oven checking for light brown color. Remove upside down onto a plate and slice in two to let steam escape.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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Scrapple
25 gal plus cast iron pot over a wood fire is best
Water
Hog trimmings, bones, ofal, and head
Boil until meat falls off bones
Pick meat and rough grind, return to pot with stock
Bring back to boil and add corn meal, buckwheat flour, coriander, salt and pepper.
Stir constantly until thick and it makes a plopping sound.
Ladle out into loaf pans and cool.
To eat, slice thin or thick and brown in a cast iron skillet.
Heaven on a plate
Last edited by Dave Grubb; 02-10-2018 at 08:30 AM.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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I have enshrined you corn bread recipe in my files and will give it a try.
A bit more on scrapple: years ago when we were all young and gong ho we hunted deer with great enthusiasm and it was not unusual for us to take 30 or more deer in a week of hunting.
We would communally butcher. One of the guys worked at a butcher shop and he would get a load of hog offal to add to the pots of deer bones and offal. We would do the skinning one night, then the cutting on a Saturday and Sunday (all day) make scrapple.
Believe me---if you ever had that you would have an entirely different opinion of scrapple.
Just to assure no misunderstanding here---anyone who has picked something out of the grocery case called scrapple--scrap it----that is as far from good as one can get
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Gives new meaning to the old adage that “You don’t want to know how sausage and your laws are made,” I think.
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