Add to: Recipe Box | Grocery List | Meal PlannerRecipe submitted by This is a standard soul foods Cassandra Meroe Wimbs,
KwanzaaChefCMeroe@hotmail.comMixed Greens Ingredients (use vegan versions): 2 bunches of mustard greens
2 bunches of turnip greens
collards optional
1 teaspoon sea salt with iodine or salt substitute
Directions:1) Rinse greens well. Best in non-tap water.
2) Bring a large pot of non-tap water to boil.
3) Cover pot, cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes or until tender.
4) Can use the water-pot liquor at seasoning in a dressing.
5) Cut greens while in the pot.
When I was a little girl, I thought that collard greens were called collard, because colored people loved them so much and the greens were named after us.
Serves: 6-8
Preparation time: 20
Although I'm multi-generation New Englander some of my ancestors were Low country Carolinians. My recipe for greens would include a little chopped onion, minced garlic, crushed cayenne pepper, and vinegar. To please the purist, I add some fakin bacon to provide the smokey flavor that ham hocks or salt pork would have given. Even my non-Vegan mom and Atkins diet son love them this way. Dont skrimp on the seasonings!
Archived comment by: mamaceleste
Your collard/colored comment at the recipe was not witty and was borderline offensive (despite the age range you were citing it from)... and the recipe is not so much a recipe as it is boiling instructions. End note: NEVER EVER cut ANYthing inside a teflon pan. Christ, don't cut anything in your good pans regardless.
Archived comment by: kookoo4couscous
kookoo4couscous: it seems to me you misunderstood the comment in question. surely the author is refering to herself as collard/coloured when she says ....because colored people loved them so much and the greens were named after *us*. i hope that individuals have the freedom to refer to themselves as they wish. i enjoyed the childhood recollection and viewed it as rather sweet.
Archived comment by: adagio
