All About Pocket Knives

Waukonda wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:56 am

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:45 am Microwaved corn dog.

With plenty of mustard and no ketchup, I hope?

treefarmer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:08 am I'd gladly sit down to a meal just like Bro.Wade had this evening! However if I could choose the greens I would vote for Mustard greens. Turnips with the roots are good, collards are great, Rutabaga greens are really, really great (don't get them too often) and Mustard greens are best, to my taste buds.

We had a neighbor across the pasture from us that grew collard greens year round. He would baby the plants for several years, sometimes propping the tall plants so they wouldn't fall over. The stalks would sometimes be 5 and 6 foot tall. He would pick a mess of bottom leaves and keep allowing the plant to grow, he pinched off the bloom when they appeared to keep them from "going to seed". Collards are usually harvested by cutting the whole top from the stalk, wrapped with a big rubber band and sold at the market.

Our old neighbor showed Miss Joy how to roll the leaves up in a tight roll and "chip them up" with a knife for cooking. One time he was helping her clean some collard leaves and she started to discard a leaf the had some holes in it from a worm or some critter. He said, "No, don't throw that away, you just eat around the holes!" He was right, only the discolored (yellow) leaves would be tossed.
Treefarmer

treefarmer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:14 am Yes sir, we used to eat Poke weed when I was a little feller. It's supposed to be dangerous when it gets some age on the leaves. I don't know enough about it to try it. We used to play with the berrys and get the red juice all over our hands.
Looking around for an old timer to ask about this sort of thing is almost a lost cause. I find it hard to realize but I'm now in that "old timer" category and I don't know squat compared to the folks I used to call "old timers"!
Treefarmer

treefarmer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:14 am Yes sir, we used to eat Poke weed when I was a little feller. It's supposed to be dangerous when it gets some age on the leaves.

'round these parts it's called 'poke salad'. I've seen plenty of it but have never ate any.
I seem to recall something along the lines of having to cook it, or boil it (?) twice,
changing the water to get rid of whatever makes ya' sick ...

Hey, what do you know ... Wikipedia has an article on the stuff ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacc ... #Food_uses

seems the whole plant is poisonous

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:11 pm Resurrecting an old thread, having turkey chili and Red Lobster cheesy biscuits (from a box, easy to make). Fall is the perfect time for chili in my opinion.

cudgee wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:22 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:11 pm Resurrecting an old thread, having turkey chili and Red Lobster cheesy biscuits (from a box, easy to make). Fall is the perfect time for chili in my opinion.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:29 pm

cudgee wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:22 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:11 pm Resurrecting an old thread, having turkey chili and Red Lobster cheesy biscuits (from a box, easy to make). Fall is the perfect time for chili in my opinion.

I guess you're having breakfast about now, cudgee?

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:11 pm Resurrecting an old thread, having turkey chili and Red Lobster cheesy biscuits (from a box, easy to make). Fall is the perfect time for chili in my opinion.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:55 am Went out for some Walleye tonight, it was excellent. Nothin like eating in an old dive bar with a lopsided floor......makes the food taste so much better!

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:55 am Went out for some Walleye tonight, it was excellent. Nothin like eating in an old dive bar with a lopsided floor......makes the food taste so much better!

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:15 am

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:55 am Went out for some Walleye tonight, it was excellent. Nothin like eating in an old dive bar with a lopsided floor......makes the food taste so much better!

Looks great Ike! Some of the best food comes from places like that. The number of cars in the parking lot is a good way to find them!

Bruce, I’m interested in your recipe too, assuming you’re willing to share it. Looks delicious.

Ken

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2026 1:00 am Time to wake up this old thread! Supper tonight was meatloaf, with mac’n cheese, accompanied by warm cornbread and garden fresh ripe tomatoes, lady cream peas, and cantaloupe. And of course iced tea! This is the time of year when the stuff we grow in the garden is at its best!

Ken