Poke sallet....it's what's fer dinner

[gregintenn]

I picked a mess of poke sallet today on a jobsite, and plan to cook it as a side dish for dinner tonight. We all love the stuff. It isn't very long before it gets too big to pick and eat. Anybody else here like it?

[ReeferMac]

Can't say I've ever heard or seen it (as he trundles off to The Goog...)

 

- K

[dralarms]

Haven’t had it in years. Wife used to cook it in scrambled eggs. 

[KahrMan]

Tony knows what you're talkin' about...

 

 

[bersaguy]

Wife use to cook it every time I brought a bunch home. Have not had any since she passed away. I have a big patch that usually grows behind one of the storage buildings here. When it shows up I call a buddy and he comes and gets it. Have not seen any yet but should be about time for it.

[gunwhatgun]

I liked your post. Not because of the polk salad. I just noticed that you have boobs  above your avatar, and frankly, that's just awesome.

 

Staying on topic though, I remember old timers picking a making polk sald when i was a kid but don't remember eating it.

 

 

Edited May 10, 2018 by gunwhatgun
To correct a spelling mistake.

[Garufa]

37 minutes ago, gunwhatgun said:

I liked you post. Not because of the polk salad. I just noticed that you have boobs  above your avatar, and frankly, that's just awesome.

There are no boobs here, I looked. 

[Chucktshoes]

Just now, Garufa said:

There are no boobs here, I looked. 

Me too. 

[Oh Shoot]

I ate it for years as a kid (grandmother), and off and on through the years since. Last time was about 3 years ago, picked a mess along the greenway here in middle of Knox.

I kind of doubt there's very much nutritional value in it though, since you need to boil the crap out of it at least 3 different times to get most of poisonous alkaloids out of it.

- OS

 

[ReeferMac]

What we need to do is ask @Highwalker to stop by and comment, as no doubt he teaches something about eating Poke greens in his very enjoyable and informative "Wild Edibles Class" offered free several times throughout the year.

[gregintenn]

1 hour ago, ReeferMac said:

What we need to do is ask @Highwalker to stop by and comment, as no doubt he teaches something about eating Poke greens in his very enjoyable and informative "Wild Edibles Class" offered free several times throughout the year.

Why? You don't trust me?

[mikegideon]

Haven't had it since I was a kid. It was fixed like turnip greens, with some pork floating around in it. Just tasted like greens to me.

[gregintenn]

7 minutes ago, mikegideon said:

Haven't had it since I was a kid. It was fixed like turnip greens, with some pork floating around in it. Just tasted like greens to me.

I boil it down, then fry it in bacon grease with eggs and salt.

This is the proper way to prepare it.

[mikegideon]

7 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

I boil it down, then fry it in bacon grease with eggs and salt.

This is the proper way to prepare it.

That should be pretty good.

[peejman]

1 hour ago, gregintenn said:

I boil it down, then fry it in bacon grease with eggs and salt.

This is the proper way to prepare it.

Southern cooking 101.  Take something with potential to be good for you and fry it with bacon grease and salt.  

[Garufa]

3 minutes ago, peejman said:

Southern cooking 101.  Take something with potential to be good for you and fry it with bacon grease and salt.  

More like take a poisonous weed, spend all day cooking it about 3 or 4 times, then give it some taste.  

I’ll take the bacon grease and eggs to kill me, that’s delicious all by itself.

[seez52]

My mother used to pressure cook it. We had it a few times a year. I cooked some a few years ago the same way and it tasted like I remembered. No one else here will eat it so I don't usually go to the trouble. It's slicker than turnip greens

[gregintenn]

52 minutes ago, Garufa said:

More like take a poisonous weed, spend all day cooking it about 3 or 4 times, then give it some taste.  

I’ll take the bacon grease and eggs to kill me, that’s delicious all by itself.

 But green stuff is good for you!

[gregintenn]

2 hours ago, mikegideon said:

That should be pretty good.

Damn straight!!!

[mikegideon]

1 hour ago, peejman said:

Southern cooking 101.  Take something with potential to be good for you and fry it with bacon grease and salt.  

Salt and bacon grease IS good for you. Where you from anyway?  

[Ronald_55]

Mom used to cook only the stalks by cutting it up, breading it, and frying like okra. Been a lot of years though.

The wife's family only ever ate the leaves cooked kind of like collard greens. 

[Murgatroy]

Been a long time. I make all my greens pretty much the same way, with bacon grease... Mmmm.