Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Five

[Sir Kadly]

'Specially if ya cook like Justin Wilson... "a l'il wine for da sauce... a l'il wine for da cook!"

I LOVED dat guy!!!

Yeah, and the cook always got his wine. He was great, a very good storyteller too.

 

[Kaezziel]

R.A. Salvatore Drizzt was and always shall be the baddest ... ever written. Terry Goodkind is excellent as well. Sword of truth rocks, but still, the main man is Drizzt, for fight scene writing and general zen attitude.

Agreed... no contest and no argument... Rand al'Thor could lay down mass destruction with a thought... but Drizzt did it with style, one corpse at a time...

 

[Sir Kadly]

What's a collard?

Some southern thing, supposedly a vegetable but the way they cook em they aren't super healthy, so better than a vegetable.

 

[Kenna]

They have green ones? Dang ... where've I've been all this time.

Nope, never ... wouldn't even know what they look like ... cooked or raw.

Kinda like turnip or mustard greens. Only Collards.

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[Sir Kadly]

are you pullin our leg or have you really never had collard greens??

Us northerners don't eat the same foods as you southerners. Grits and collards ain't part of our normal vocabulary.

 

[bigbells]

The mistake most people make when preparing food with licker is that they add it before the cooking instead of afterwards.

Ummm... pardon my ignorance, but what exactly are sparegrass spears?

Ahhhhh!!! See, that's what I was thinkin' everybody was talkin' about... I really only like it if it's been grilled and still a bit crunchy and then smothered in butter. Thank ya, L'il Birdie... now I don't hafta keep scratchin' my head...

Over 25 years ago, the Snake Man (a coworker) asked me if I knew what a mater was. I hadn't been off the bus from NJ for all that long, but I knew that this guy's nickname was the Snake Man, so I said: "some kind of snake?" Even in NJ we called tomatoes maters on occasion.

Never had fresh ay sparygus. They say, dun rite, it'z to kill for.
On da udder hand, had some canned. Right up there with bilge barf.

Even canned sparegrass is better than no sparegrass at all, but my unquestionable good taste is questioned frequently. My nomination for biggest difference between fresh and canned: taters of any kind. If we have to go to a brokered convention I'll put the old peas-carrots-corn mix up as my next choice.

Guess I'd better keep my grubby hands off em too.........
I'll share some of the brussels sprouts though.......


Yuk........no wonder you didn't like them.......canned......fresh is the only way to enjoy most veggies!!

Fruits too, but for convenience I'll eat canned or frozen. Still better than nuttin.

Guyz! I sed I hear'd fresh wuz like nite' n day frum wut I hear'd! Ya gotta pay tension hear!
But agree fresh just about anythin' iz better'n canned. I think the only thing that holds up canned wood be korn.

Yer fired.

Actually with vegetables that can be froze, I think even frozen beats canned, and that includes corn.

Agreed. Plus, the plastic bags or waxed cardboard boxes are easier than cans to open once I take them out of the freezer. It can be real hard to get the contents out of them frozen cans.

Yer fired.

Hire her again so I can fire her again.

I'm spoiled. DH is in the wholesale produce biz, so we pretty much get any fruit, veggies an' herbs known to modern man. I love veggies! Sometimes, tho, I'll ask for a pound or two of somethin' an he brings a five pound box! That's a lot of any veg for two peeps! We try real hard not to waste food, so I end up walkin' door to door like a Girl Scout, but with maters or sparegrass or sweet corn or some such.

Hi neighbor! Mom was a decent cook but the only fresh vegetables we had regularly when I was a kid were corn, maters, onions, green peppers, baking potatoes, celery and lettuce. Mashed taters were always from the dried flakes. I thought they were great because I didn't know any better.

I was the only one talented enough to get it on the ceiling while cutting it off the cob. Once she decided she was just done foolin with it, my nephews and I had to take the rest of around the neighborhood selling it for 10 cents an ear.

I remember buying fresh corn at $1 per dozen ears in the 1960s.

UUUggghhh... now dat just sounds like a waste of perfectly good poke ribs.....

I tried it with cola thanks to recipes posted on this porch. Purdy darn good.

are you pullin our leg or have you really never had collard greens??

I'd heard of collards and grits but I don't think I ever had either before moving to NC 28 years ago.

 

[Danousa]

Don't forget all the black eyed peas and hamhocks belong to ME! Also sparegrass goes wonderful on a grilled ham and cheese sammich...

 

[Sir Kadly]

Of COURSE I do.... unfortunately da wife won't lemme have a deep fryer though (cause she knows then I'd just deep fry EVERYTHING!), so I gotta fry it in da deep cast iron pot...

Best fried chicken I ever ate was my grammas, and believe me she didn't have no deep fryer. Pretty sure she fried it in lard, and it was in a skillet. Course the chicken had usually been alive still just a few hours before she fried it, which might have also been part of why it tasted so good.

 

[Danousa]

Oh and the chicken and waffles there on the table are mine too...

 

[Kaezziel]

Alrighty y'all... I hate to say it, but I gotta run... my brief spell of overtime has reached it's inevitable end, and I have to take tomorrow off for chemo day... I hope y'all have a wonderful night and weekend, and I'll see y'all again on Monday!

 

[Sir Kadly]

Thinking about making Hoppin' John tomorrow. One more time before the weather gets warmer & I won't want it.

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That must be another one o' them strange southern foods, no idea what Hoppin' John is.

 

[Kenna]

Don't forget all the black eyed peas and hamhocks belong to ME! Also sparegrass goes wonderful on a grilled ham and cheese sammich...

Sorry Dano, I gotta have some of those peas for my Hoppn' John!

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[Sir Kadly]

Asparagus if you ask me. One of the few green veggies I like. Seated in butter and garlic or basted in garlic butter while being cooked on a charcoal grill. Mmmmmm Mmmmmmm! Otherwise known in the Bode household as aspygrassy!

It's also good with hollandaise sauce.

 

[bigbells]

Some southern thing, supposedly a vegetable but the way they cook em they aren't super healthy, so better than a vegetable.

Now that thar is right funny, and of course true. You just gave another great example of taking healthy food and removing the health: spargus and hollandaise.

Alrighty y'all... I hate to say it, but I gotta run... my brief spell of overtime has reached it's inevitable end, and I have to take tomorrow off for chemo day... I hope y'all have a wonderful night and weekend, and I'll see y'all again on Monday!

You're bound to miss a broccoli rabe discussion or two while you're occupied with real life. Have a great one!

 

[Kaezziel]

You're bound to miss a broccoli rabe discussion or two while you're occupied with real life. Have a great one!

Ahhhh... but the beautiful thing about Da Porch is dat it'll be preserved for posterity and I'll be able to catch up on Monday! Thank, Bells... you have a great weekend as well.

 

[Sir Kadly]

Alrighty y'all... I hate to say it, but I gotta run... my brief spell of overtime has reached it's inevitable end, and I have to take tomorrow off for chemo day... I hope y'all have a wonderful night and weekend, and I'll see y'all again on Monday!

Take care Kaz, be thinking about you and your bride this weekend.

 

[Danousa]

Collard greens are look similar to spinach when cooked. Also, know what a millennial wife makes for dinner?

res·er·va·tion
ˌrezərˈvāSH(ə)n/
noun
AKA dinner at restaurant...

 

[Kaezziel]

Take care Kaz, be thinking about you and your bride this weekend.

Thank ya, Brother... much appreciated! Now go find some grits and give 'em a try.

 

[bigbells]

Ahhhh... but the beautiful thing about Da Porch is dat it'll be preserved for posterity and I'll be able to catch up on Monday! Thank, Bells... you have a great weekend as well.

So how'd ya manage to miss the recent (about a week ago) discussion on broccoli rabe?

 

[Kaezziel]

So how'd ya manage to miss the recent (about a week ago) discussion on broccoli rabe?

Prolly scanned it in a rush to catch up... LOL... I need to learn to be more thorough...

Okay, I'm outta here for real now... see y'all on Monday!