So What's Cooking Tonight?

I myself am getting ready for the big dinner tomorrow afternoon! Can you smell my collards cooking?? Yummmm!! I'll cook the blackeyed peas in the morning and Corn bread and fried Hog Jawl too!!

What are you cooking for dinner??

Is it okay if I ate my cabbage and peas early? They smelled too good, and I couldn't resist, so I have made a huge dent in them. Ah, but I have only me to eat the whole thing, needed to get started early. Tomorrow, I hope I will take time to bake some little loaves of cornbread and pick up more peas. Then, while I'm at the store, I might throw in some wicked things like whipping cream for coffee, which I normally drink black but like to cream up when I add Bailey's. Oh, and I made a wonderful fruit salad, even added poppy seed, and have a nice sweet but piquant sauce to drizzle over it. Just used up some fruit left over from Christmas and a few pecans, almonds and walnuts. After I have stuffed my face to seemingly impossible limits, I shall settle in for bed very late with a couple of pieces of buttered toast, made with sesame crust Italian bread, smeared with those bought fig preserves I'm learning to like. Tomorrow morning, I hope a bowl of oatmeal will help redeem me.

Well I thought I would go to Villa Ricca and eat tomorrow. I hear they are having collards, blackeyes and hog jowl. LOL
I'm having pork steaks cooked with sliced yams over them and sprinkled with sugar. YUM YUM. Some blackeyes and maybe some mac. and cheese and good old corn bread. Might cook the corn bread in the waffle iron because I like a lot of crust. Was going to have collards but the ones at Winn Dixie didn't look good today. I might run over to the farmers market tomorrow morning and see if they have any.

Hi, Jim, and a happy new year to you!

Jim, you and Aimee are making me hungry for dinner and it is only 7 A.M. Maybe one of you would just like to set a plate for me. Happy New Year to you both. Molly, I have never learned to like collards though my dearly departed little grandma couldn't live with out them. Turnip greens will definitely be on my table though. My winter onions will make an appearance also. I just thought of a new addition to the table as my mother used to always love a bread pudding on New Years Day. The raisins and cinnamon used to smell so good when I was a kid. Yep, gotta have a bread pudding!

I made salad yesterday (with paprika, lettuce, cucumber & cottage cheese), then we ate some tortillas (yummie), and chestnuts, they were all mouldy, except three! I was so mad, I like roasted chestnuts and there were only those 3 good and they were pretty hard and dry too. Well, maybe better ones next year.

Jim, bad collards are better than no collards

No bad collards down here Jim, they are our bread and butter on this farm, we grow them year round, and I never get tired of them...Busiest holiday for our trucks, they have been coming and going all week, loaded to the gill with greens...Wish you were close enough..I would run you some over..LOL
Larkie

we are having bake ham, cabbage, blackeye peas, rice dressing and not forget the chocolate cake with icing on top! Yummy.. I am trying to make my DH to help cook LOL... YOu all have a HAPPY 2003 YEAR!!!!!!

Well, I was planning on cooking a pork roast with Sour Kraut,(old PA tradition). But last night we had a neighborhood get together. We have about half a ham left so I am going to use that and of course cook collards & black Eyes! Had a great time with about 20 friends, wish you all could have joined us!! Happy New Year!!

Ahh yes Jim you are more than welcome to join us! I too had a problem with finding good looking greens. Wal-Mart had them pretty cheap but they seem to be full of holes, I then decided to go to Ingles and the greens looked ok but they wanted almost 3.00 for a small bunch! so luckily there was one more store between there and the house so I stopped there and found them there...cheap and goodlooking! So I had to buy up about 6 bunches!! Then after trying out some of the hog jawl we found it tasted sweet for some reason! so off I went again to another store for HJ!!
The way the house smells now, it will ALL be worth it here in a little while for sure!!! Blackeyes are cooking, cornbread is done, greens are heating, and all the trimmings are coming together nicely!
Hey Aimee, why not bring over the dessert?? Would love to have the extra company!!
I see too that alot of folks have sour kraut on NY's day, I love it but have never had it on this day..might just have to start something new! LOL

Hi Jim and to everyone who is reading this:
I can almost smell the collard greens:) Happy New years to you and yours. It is a family tradition to eat roasted pork, sour kraut and mashed potatoes. I have the pork slowly simmering in the crock pot. Can you smell the roasted pork?

Yummm I sure can smell the pork cooking!! Smells wonderful!! Welcome to DG JuneHope!! Glad you could join us!

To cook collards, my grandmother and mother always began by pouring boiling water over them, pouring it off and then dunking the greens in a big pot of boiling water to overcook them, according to modern instructions. My mother won't use pork, but I always liked my grandmother's collards and other veggies with the various forms of pork she used. I think bacon was her choice for collards, as there were always bits of it in the dish. It seems to me she poured a generous amount of the drippings from her jar into the boiling pot. My father and grandfather sprinkled some homemade pepper sauce on theirs, and I like that, too, but have trouble finding the kind of little peppers they grew to make my own.

Bread pudding! Right up there with rice pudding, but don't anyone tell Howie about that. Potato pudding? Nah, won't work. Okay, I have my dessert plate here, pass the pudding, please. Oh, help yourself to that fruit salad, and I brought a sweet potato pie, too. That peach cobbler and the apple dumplings will sit pretty good later, when I have my cup of perfect black coffee.

Just in time for Peach cobbler! YEAH!!!! That will finish off my dinner just right. Mmmmmmm better get the vanilla ice cream so I can have peach cobbler a la mode lol

Dinner went well and I am ready to burst! I sure do love collard greens!!

Aimee, those are tabasco peppers. We make our own pepper sauce too. Collard greens 'overdone' with the right amount of salt and pepper sauce are ambrosia!

My MIL made sauerkraut and pork, served over mashed potatoes. It was the most tender, juicy pork I've ever had, too. Mmmmmmm. :)

Kimberly, Do you mean that it was all piled on top of each other? or just all on your plate at one time?? I think I could handle it all on my plate but not on top of each other as in one main thing. hmmm wonder if that sounds right???? lol

Mollybee, that is how it was always cooked in our family: layer sauerkraut in the bottom of a pan, add spareribs, then simmer for several hours. Add potatoes and keep boiling until done. Yuck!!!! (but I do not like sauerkraut ;D

hmmm sounds like I need to try something new...

She does the kraut and pork in the crockpot, and the mashed potatoes on the stove. The kraut and meat is spooned either next to or on top of the potatoes, depending on how you like 'em. I like 'em all together. :)

My dad tells the story of how my grandfather came to Nebraska from Missouri and met my grandmother. One of his requests for her to cook was pork and sauerkraut and potatoes cooked together. Grandma always called it "Missouri slop". I admit that I inherited Grandpa's tastebuds because I love that mixture. But I do it myself on the plate and get rolled eyes from dd and dh.

Jewel, that sounds good to me. I may have to get some pork roast & kraut at the store tomorrow. We aren't big fans of 'kraut, but a few times a year I do fix it.

We have had the pork and kraut cooked together and we really like it, but I had just never heard of the potato's being added. Now yea I have had all 3 but not cooked together or on top. My tastebuds are watering now thinking about that kraut! I like using homemade kraut too!

Kraut and spareribs are my favorite! We were at the in-laws for New Years day. They make the best pork and potato dumplings I've ever tasted! Yummm!

I'm hungry! Again

Welcome June.

I really like Bavarian kraut, with caraway seeds and brown sugar in it. They sell a really good canned version at a local store, but the brand name escapes me.

My dh messed up and bought Bavarian style kraut one time and swore up and down it was the kind he liked...I knew better! We don't like the caraway seeds, so therefore we had kraut to feed to the pig LOL She liked it alot better than we did!! I think they put caraway seeds in Itilan sausage too don't they? I like the sausage but the first caraway seed I bite into....well lets just say it ruins the rest of my meal! I think they are fine as long as I don't bite into one though.

Oh, yum - I like them. Of course, they're a lot softer in the kraut than they are in a sausage!