Culture shock

[red angus 2010]

As most Tennesseans know there is a huge music festival held each year in my small town called Bonnaroo. It brings over 100,000 people to a 700 acre farm on the city limits. Of course every hotel within an hours drive is booked a year in advance. My company HQ in Germany felt that it was a great time to send two techs over to rebuild some equipment. To their "surprise" there are no hotels. I am putting them up for 4 days at the Hoss Hacienda. They walked into culture shock....especially with the amount of firepower that I have at my disposal. They have never held a real gun much less seen 50 or more at one man's house :mrgreen: On top of all of that we are making them dinner of pork chops on the grill, cornbread, poke sallat, taters, corn and hot peppers. Should be fun :lol2:

I was taught to call the plant "pope" weeds. Never eat the berries because the are deadly, didn't know you could eat the leaves. My grandma used to make wine out of the berries for arthritis.

 

[Calhoun Farm]

When can I come over for supper? LOL

You better buy them boys some beer too!

 

[M5farm]

When the berries get ripe I eat 1 berry a day

 

[jedstivers]

Nonetheless, some parts can be used as food, medicine, or poison if properly prepared.

So what you are saying is you all know how to properly prepare it?
Around here I just try to spray the stuff before it gets taller than I am.

regolith,

The way I was taught by my mother, grandmother etc. is to double boil the greens. Take the leaves (young poke weed is best) and bring to a boil in water. Drain off the water and put in more fresh water and boil again. At this point the way I like to eat it is transfer it to a frying pan after I have fried some bacon. Fry the greens a bit in the bacon oil and add two eggs. Scramble those up in the greens. Salt and pepper to taste. Excellent eating especially with cornbread, fresh mater slices, corn on the cob and a venison steak :cowboy:

You can do the same with spinach. At least the last part of bacon greese and eggs, don't have to do all the boiling and draining.

 

[bbirder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw

You picked a good one Dun. :clap: :clap:

 

[HOSS]

The poke sallat was a big hit last night. Dinner was pork chops on the grill, green beans canned from my garden, pinto beans, cornbread, poke, tomato slices, hot peppers and pecan pie for desert.

Tomorrow is gunfire day

 

[HDRider]

Nonetheless, some parts can be used as food, medicine, or poison if properly prepared.

So what you are saying is you all know how to properly prepare it?
Around here I just try to spray the stuff before it gets taller than I am.

regolith,

The way I was taught by my mother, grandmother etc. is to double boil the greens. Take the leaves (young poke weed is best) and bring to a boil in water. Drain off the water and put in more fresh water and boil again. At this point the way I like to eat it is transfer it to a frying pan after I have fried some bacon. Fry the greens a bit in the bacon oil and add two eggs. Scramble those up in the greens. Salt and pepper to taste. Excellent eating especially with cornbread, fresh mater slices, corn on the cob and a venison steak :cowboy:

That is right. It is the best green there is..

My Mom would also mix it in scrambled eggs for breakfast. I love my Mom..

 

[regolith]

Don't think I'm quite brave enough to stop pulling it out of the vegetable garden
I think what we have here is phytolacca octandra, but it looks the same and has the same properties as the stuff in the link.

 

[HDRider]

Don't think I'm quite brave enough to stop pulling it out of the vegetable garden
I think what we have here is phytolacca octandra, but it looks the same and has the same properties as the stuff in the link.

Wiki says you got it. One thing that has not been said, or I missed it. You must pick it young. I was always told when it gets over 6 to 8 inches let it be. Plus it like to grow in fresh dirt, like where a ditch is dredged and such.

Wiki says, "Phytolacca is a genus of perennial plants native to North America, South America, East Asia and New Zealand."

There is no problem if picked right and cooked right. In all my years, going back three generations, I have never heard of a bad polk experience.

And for those of you less "regular" folks, it will move you. :banana:

 

[Ouachita]

Yeah I remember a saying from when I was kid....

Got me a pig, put him in a pine pole pin in a poke patch, put him on pickles peaches and pears, poked him with a stick and he went poo poo poo

 

[HOSS]

Target practice session went well. Shot the AR15, Springfield XD9 and the Kimber 1911. 45. They took plenty of pictures of each other to show their friends. They just could not get over being able to own guns and shoot them on your own property. Heaven help us not to get like Europe. I love my freedom.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Amen to that Hoss.