Dinner (lunch for the yankees) time in Kentucky

[RobesonsRme.com]

There are several different varieties of Poke Weed. The leaves of some are, indeed, toxic.

The roots of none can be rendered non-toxic. I suspect the stalks of most are the same.

For me, not worth the risk.

I suspect the history of human consumption of Poke Weed may well date to the post Civil War period when some folks, Blacks and Whites both, were near starvation levels during the so-called "Reconstruction" of The South.

Charlie Noyes

[Colonel26]

Charlie, you're exactly right. Most of our food tells our history.

We's be po folk hereabouts.

[carrmillus]

My grandmother used to make poke salad - she made us kids pick it for her. Her sister (my great-aunt Evy) was born in 1888, and lived with her. Aunt Evy always had a little bit if W.E. Garrett powdered snuff dripping down her chin....she lived to be almost 100.

We always grew okra in our garden, and mom would fry it up. It always smelled wonderful, but was too slimy for me to eat. I love seafood gumbo, too, but always pick out the okra.

I always told my mom that to me, okra tastes like those times when you have a bad sinus infection, and you swallow a big - well, never mind.

....unk, i always loved jerry clower's comment on okra- he said he ate so much boiled okra when he was a kid, he couldn't keep his socks up!!!................ ........

[jerryd6818]

Mom fried Okra and it wasn't a bit slimy. It's one of the things I wish I had learned to cook like she did, along with her potato pancakes.

[Cutty]

Down here if you can't fry it, it can't be ate. Although I try to stay away from fried foods these days

I love fried okra and don't find it to be slimy. Steamed okra was always called slimy okra around my folks house and I like it as well, had some last night with a little hot sauce on top mmmm mmmmm. Never actually had poke salad but I've heard of it.

[treefarmer]

TJ thanks for posting the Jerry Clower recording. My wife and I just finished listening to it and it thoroughly enjoyed it! Spent a little time at Camp LeJeune back in the 60's and it was good to hear a real American speak to the troops. With his passing, he left a big hole in the decent side of good country comedy. Treefarmer

[Colonel26]

I raise okra, and fry it all the time, its not slimy a bit. Get ya a plate full of cornmeal, season with salt pepper and a pinch of sugar, and fry it in lard or coconut oil so that it ain't greasy.

Jerry I grew up eating tater cakes in the mornings with gravy and biscuits. We make them with left over mashed potatoes. Mmmmmm good.

[jerryd6818]

I raise okra, and fry it all the time, its not slimy a bit. Get ya a plate full of cornmeal, season with salt pepper and a pinch of sugar, and fry it in lard or coconut oil so that it ain't greasy.

Jerry I grew up eating tater cakes in the mornings with gravy and biscuits. We make them with left over mashed potatoes. Mmmmmm good.

I think that's pretty much the way mom did it. Definitely corn meal and it was NOT a batter like you find in restaurants these days. I'm going to guess she fried the okra in bacon grease like she did just about everything else (possibly in lard). Seasonings is what she called bacon grease.

I've tried to make potato pancakes several times (yes from left over mashed potatoes) but I just don't know the lick it's done with. Mine never come out like I remember hers.

[tjmurphy]

If I remember correctly, I think my dear old aunt and my mom would take the left over mashed taters and mix in onion, an egg and some flour and fry in, you guessed it, LARD.

[griz1200]

TJ that's the way Mom and both my grandmas made'Tater Cakes. Don't
get no better than that. We had soup beans and cornbread at least twice
a week and sometimes Mom would take the leftover pinto beans and made
bean cakes with them. De-lish! If there was any cornbread left, she would
cut it to about 1" X 3" pieces, fry them in bacon grease (of course) then
make a big skillet of gravy and mixed them together. Again, De-lish.
Those gals back then were, in my opinion, the best cooks in the world. They
could make a meal on hardly anything. They had to.

griz

[Colonel26]

Growing up we had beans and cornbread twice a day, everyday. It was the main dish, everything else was a side. I remember the first meal my wife cooked after we were married. It was A casserole! I sat there looking at it, she asked what was the matter, and I stupidly said, "where's the rest of it?"!

Jerry, I agree about the okra. That batters up stuff can't compare to the home made rolled in cornmeal goodness. We do out green tomatoes the same way.

[jerryd6818]

Our just about everyday of the week meal was pinto beans and sliced fried potatoes. (beans seasoned with and potatoes fried in bacon grease of course)

My mom learned to cook from my dad's mom and there wasn't a better cook in the county than my grandma on my dad's side. My mother took to it like a duck to water. Anybody that knew us would tell you what a great cook mom was.

Y'all are making me hungry. I need to get some lunch.

[tjmurphy]

Being in a German family, we always had something sweet/sour on the table at supper, wilted lettus, German potato salad, cole slaw, sweet/sour cucumbers and such. Sure do miss that.

[carrmillus]

..t.j., how can you be german with a name like murphy????....here i thought you and me wuz irish brothers!!!.............. ............

[tjmurphy]

1/4 Irish (Murphy) 3/4 German (Brausch, Straus[maternal] Haupt/Houpt/Houp [paternal])

[carrmillus]

....o. k.,t. j. 1/4 is better than none at all!!!!......does this mean you only celebrate 6hrs. on st. patrick's day?????................ .............

[tjmurphy]

Don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day at all, Baptist, not Catholic Does that make me an Orangeman?

[jerryd6818]

Oh it twas the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
Me father, he was orange and me mother she was green.

What brand of Baptist? General, Freewill, Hard Shell, Missionary, Northern, Southern, Primitive... ??

[tjmurphy]

Fundamental, Independent Baptist. No affiliation to the Southern Baptist Convention

[jerryd6818]

Is that 'once in grace always in grace' like the Missionary/Northern/Southern Baptists?

[tjmurphy]

"Once Saved, always Saved" you got it

[jlw257]

"Once Saved, always Saved" you got it

AMEM

[jerryd6818]

"Once Saved, always Saved" you got it

Thanks.

[tjmurphy]

John 10:27-30
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

30 I and my Father are one.

[treefarmer]

TJ, you get another Southern Baptist "Amen" from LA ! Treefarmer