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Morgan:

--- Quote from: DC on November 29, 2020, 10:03:44 am ---What are "greens"? I thought it was a generic term for any leafy veg but now I'm doubting that.

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Dc, if you was eating greens at my house growing up, it could have been collard, mustard, spinach, poke, turnip, or any combination of those, so it was a pretty generic term for us.

Eric Krewson:
I have kale (siberian and red russian), Georgia collards, purple top turnip greens and spinach planted in separate patches, some like them mixed. some like them individually, kale is the new trendy health food and very popular.

Of course like DC mentioned there is poke salat, a wild toxic weed that sprouts up in the spring along back roads and paths. It has to be boiled several time and the liquid poured off to be safe to eat. It grows in abundance along the exercise path I use so I stockpile some every spring.

Most cook it down and season it in a pan then break an egg in the mix, tastes like cooked spinach.

I get creative with it; here is some cooked in chicken stock with onions, garlic and wild chanterelle mushrooms.

Eric Krewson:
Pokeweed at the spring picking stage and mature and very toxic, past the eating stage.

WhistlingBadger:
Is pokeweed related to baneberry?  The colors are different but the shape looks the same.  Baneberry is beautiful but you don't want to eat that stuff.  I guess as a rule it's good not to eat anything with "bane" in the name.   ;D

DC:

--- Quote from: Morgan on November 29, 2020, 10:51:21 am ---
--- Quote from: DC on November 29, 2020, 10:03:44 am ---What are "greens"? I thought it was a generic term for any leafy veg but now I'm doubting that.

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Dc, if you was eating greens at my house growing up, it could have been collard, mustard, spinach, poke, turnip, or any combination of those, so it was a pretty generic term for us.

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Thanks Morgan, I guess I was pretty close.

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