For all of you who have never had real cane syrup...Steen's is a bit of Louisiana heaven in a can or bottle. It is pure bliss on cat-head biscuits, buttermilk pancakes, french toast, hoe cakes, or my personal Creole brunch favorite pain perdu ...
For all of you who have never had real cane syrup...Steen's is a bit of Louisiana heaven in a can or bottle.
You can order it direct from Steen's and get free shipping and the best price on the internet. I just ordered the four-pack of 25 oz cans, since they don't carry it in my local grocery here in southwest Oregon.
My local HEB carries Steen's cane syrup. It's a bit burnt/bitter tasting to me so I don't like it that much on my pancakes etc, but I absolutely love it as a coffee sweetener.
You still have all those mom issues after watching her turn tricks in your mobile home.
Your mama earned her name in my double wide.
That's about as classless as it gets. Speak ill of a man's daughter, wife, or mother and it reflects on you, not them.
Good reminder for Steelhead.
Any/all of us.
Hell, Scott doesn't even like me and I know enough to respect him enough to NOT insult or impugn his mother, his wife, or his sister (or his daughter, if he was ever lucky enough to have one).
That bacon is simply a garnish. I like about 1/2 lb on my plate. I do eat eggs, waffles, cakes, etc, but they are mostly just a reason to ingest bacon. Attractive pic though.
To understand the origin of "hoecakes", you'd have to know that a "hoe" is NOT the little tools with a stem that's inserted into a wooden handle.
A hoe is a big blade with an eye that a handle fits thru. I could walk outside and take a picture of one, but you can google "eyehoe" more than likely.
Come dinnertime, our colored brethern who were chopping cotton slipped the handles out of their hoes and mixed some cornmeal, bacon fat, and water together into a cake which they cooked on the hoe over a fire made from last years cotton stalks.
What a sad, sick, sorry example of innanet childishness on display. Can't run a simple topic of interest without petty grudge posts blocking the view. Small people, small feelings and small lives. Starting to remember why I gave up on this place for so long.
Cakes. Seemed a good first breakfast for the new kitchen countertops. Cooked the bacon first then cooked the hoecakes in the bacon fat.
I also love hoecakes with cracklins mixed in and a big pot of greens.
The bacon looks quality. Of course, anybody who's seen my pic knows I could eat about a pound of them slices myself. That's the problem, eating them whilst cooking other stuff and being full before getting the other stuff done.
You need some cheesy grits for it to be proper though.
Them hoecakes is also called flannel cakes.
Blackburn of Jefferson, Texas makes some awesome syrups.
Cakes. Seemed a good first breakfast for the new kitchen countertops. Cooked the bacon first then cooked the hoecakes in the bacon fat.
I also love hoecakes with cracklins mixed in and a big pot of greens.
I've never eaten Hoe Cakes (this thread might change that), but I did love the mash potato hotcakes my grandma used to make.
I broke my son in early on Buckwheat pancakes and he loves 'em............and bacon of course.
I don't eat anything green until maybe lunch, but likely supper.
My Grandpa was born and raised in TN, and swore that Poke Salad made good greens. He had a brother mail him some seed to grow a patch in his garden. He was proud of that patch, and it was always a topic of conversation with summer guests. You can take a man from the South, but not the South from the man.
My Grandpa was born and raised in TN, and swore that Poke Salad made good greens.
I like most greens but not poke, although I ate a lot of it as a child. Back then you ate what was put on the table. Beware that it is poison unless cooked. miles
You still have all those mom issues after watching her turn tricks in your mobile home.
Funny, youre the only actual person on this thread that lives in a 12 ft wide, 40ft long spam can. With a rotting wooden porch add-on deck for your 7 azz licking dogs.
All within the confines of your crawfish floodplain 1/4 acre lot. Retirement bliss on $1300 a month.
My Grandpa was born and raised in TN, and swore that Poke Salad made good greens.
I like most greens but not poke, although I ate a lot of it as a child. Back then you ate what was put on the table. Beware that it is poison unless cooked. miles
Miles,
You could have picked some while you were here last week if you wanted! It's already past knee high in the bottom here!!!
I always laugh when I see someone using a wood adze as an eye hoe in a movie! Makes me cringe. Like using your good knife as a screwdriver!
I have seen both of which you mentioned. I learned right quick about loaning my knife when I went to work at the AHTD. Some people should never touch a knife. miles
You still have all those mom issues after watching her turn tricks in your mobile home.
Funny, youre the only actual person on this thread that lives in a 12 ft wide, 40ft long spam can. With a rotting wooden porch add-on deck for your 7 azz licking dogs.
All within the confines of your crawfish floodplain 1/4 acre lot. Retirement bliss on $1300 a month.
Sweet, mirage243's incest spawned brother is back.
My Grandpa was born and raised in TN, and swore that Poke Salad made good greens.
I like most greens but not poke, although I ate a lot of it as a child. Back then you ate what was put on the table. Beware that it is poison unless cooked. miles
I worked for a local truck farmer from 12 until I could drive. He raised cabbage, kale, turnip greens, mustard, etc. Anytime he was taking a load of whatever to the farmer's market he was always happy to take Poke Salad that any of us boys had cut to sell and he'd bring cash back to us. He never brought any Poke Salad back. He said black folks always bought it all.
My grandfather liked it and I ate it with him several times but I didn't like any greens then...might like it better now.
Good post Scott. It's been a LONG time since I've had hoe cakes. I need to remedy that.
My Grandpa was born and raised in TN, and swore that Poke Salad made good greens.
I like most greens but not poke, although I ate a lot of it as a child. Back then you ate what was put on the table. Beware that it is poison unless cooked. miles
Wifey would have yard sales here in the bottom. Neighborhood black folks would drop by and see all the poke salat in the bottom and ask if they could pick some. Naturally they was always welcome! Good folks!!!
I think my Grandpa kept Poke mostly for the memories and a tie to his past/the South. He came from a large, poor family and left home by age 12 to find work. Joined the Army during WWII and discovered Oregon while training before shipping to Europe.
I'm sure he ate his share of Poke, whether it actually tasted good or not.
Got a can of Steen's on the shelf for when I want something a little different. I like it a lot, but, for me, it's just not on the same planet as maple syrup.
My Grandpa was born and raised in TN, and swore that Poke Salad made good greens.
I like most greens but not poke, although I ate a lot of it as a child. Back then you ate what was put on the table. Beware that it is poison unless cooked. miles
I worked for a local truck farmer from 12 until I could drive. He raised cabbage, kale, turnip greens, mustard, etc. Anytime he was taking a load of whatever to the farmer's market he was always happy to take Poke Salad that any of us boys had cut to sell and he'd bring cash back to us. He never brought any Poke Salad back. He said black folks always bought it all.
My grandfather liked it and I ate it with him several times but I didn't like any greens then...might like it better now.
Good post Scott. It's been a LONG time since I've had hoe cakes. I need to remedy that.
You lift too many heavy weights to eat too many greens.
What a sad, sick, sorry example of innanet childishness on display. Can't run a simple topic of interest without petty grudge posts blocking the view. Small people, small feelings and small lives. Starting to remember why I gave up on this place for so long.
You still have all those mom issues after watching her turn tricks in your mobile home.
Funny, youre the only actual person on this thread that lives in a 12 ft wide, 40ft long spam can. With a rotting wooden porch add-on deck for your 7 azz licking dogs.
All within the confines of your crawfish floodplain 1/4 acre lot. Retirement bliss on $1300 a month.
Sweet, mirage243's incest spawned brother is back.
Go fuuck yourself, been a while since I've told you that. I've kinda missed it.
You still have all those mom issues after watching her turn tricks in your mobile home.
Funny, youre the only actual person on this thread that lives in a 12 ft wide, 40ft long spam can. With a rotting wooden porch add-on deck for your 7 azz licking dogs.
All within the confines of your crawfish floodplain 1/4 acre lot. Retirement bliss on $1300 a month.
Sweet, mirage243's incest spawned brother is back.
Go fuuck yourself, been a while since I've told you that. I've kinda missed it.
Wow this got classy quick. Someone f**k someone's wife and not pay her, or what? Coupla internet tough guys.
My Grandpa was born and raised in TN, and swore that Poke Salad made good greens.
I like most greens but not poke, although I ate a lot of it as a child. Back then you ate what was put on the table. Beware that it is poison unless cooked. miles
I ain't eatin Poke Salad either. How does cooking it get the poison out if it? I never understood that.
When cooking poke, it's recommended to change out the boiling water twice before you get to the "real" cooking w spices or meats. Sorta pour away the toxins after they are drawn out. That's what my grandma taught me anyway. May be several methods.
Haven't had poke in years. Need to look some up in Turkey season. We always cooked it twice, then cover it with cheese sauce and ate it like asparagus. It will make you crap, I always wondered if that was toxins or fiber.
The hoe cakes look delicious. Re Poke Salad, come on you guys, there is so much real food, I am not about to try to boil the poisen out of something so I can eat it.
The hoe cakes look delicious. Re Poke Salad, come on you guys, there is so much real food, I am not about to try to boil the poisen out of something so I can eat it.
Same here. My Mom was from Mississippi and my Dad from Tennessee, both born farm kids during the depression. I remember hearing them talk about eating poke salad and my grandmother seemed to actually like it. Turnip greens were a luxury for them. When you're worrying about where your next meal will come from I guess you'll eat anything. Not for me though, I'm not eating what's basically a poisonous weed. I bush hog down what seems like an endless supply of that stuff around my place in the summer. If the North Koreans invade and I have to go live in the woods to evade them then I might think about it, until then I'll stick to better stuff.
If you've got ancestors that came from southern farm families I guarantee they ate a lot of that stuff.
My Grandpa was born and raised in TN, and swore that Poke Salad made good greens.
I like most greens but not poke, although I ate a lot of it as a child. Back then you ate what was put on the table. Beware that it is poison unless cooked. miles
I worked for a local truck farmer from 12 until I could drive. He raised cabbage, kale, turnip greens, mustard, etc. Anytime he was taking a load of whatever to the farmer's market he was always happy to take Poke Salad that any of us boys had cut to sell and he'd bring cash back to us. He never brought any Poke Salad back. He said black folks always bought it all.
My grandfather liked it and I ate it with him several times but I didn't like any greens then...might like it better now.
Good post Scott. It's been a LONG time since I've had hoe cakes. I need to remedy that.
You lift too many heavy weights to eat too many greens.
Ha! I don't turn my nose up at much food but greens have never been a favorite.
Re Poke Salad, come on you guys, there is so much real food, I am not about to try to boil the poisen out of something so I can eat it.
Used to be an old Doctor down around Humphrey, Ar. that said that any person that ate two messes of Poke in the spring, He would treat them the rest of the year for free. Not only an early spring food back when green stuff was scarce, some folks looked at it as a spring tonic. Same with Sassafras tea. I recall that you should dig the roots in Jan. before the sap started rising. miles
I know that Steens syrup is a favorite around here, but I was raised on Sorghum molasses and I still favor them. We could not raise Sugar Cane this far North with any success. miles
I know that Steens syrup is a favorite around here, but I was raised on Sorghum molasses and I still favor them. We could not raise Sugar Cane this far North with any success. miles
I was raised with the best of both worlds. We grew sugar cane in the Alabama River bottomlands, but if you journeyed a little northwest of Birmingham, they made some fine sorghum syrup up on Sand Mountain (when they weren't too busy handling serpents and drinking poison). I like them both. What I can't abide is that sugar water/corn syrup/ artificial flavor and color goop that fills the grocery shelves.
When cooking poke, it's recommended to change out the boiling water twice before you get to the "real" cooking w spices or meats. Sorta pour away the toxins after they are drawn out. That's what my grandma taught me anyway. May be several methods.
Thanks. Now I'll know if I'm ever having to mix up something to go with the dog meat.
Re Poke Salad, come on you guys, there is so much real food, I am not about to try to boil the poisen out of something so I can eat it.
Used to be an old Doctor down around Humphrey, Ar. that said that any person that ate two messes of Poke in the spring, He would treat them the rest of the year for free. Not only an early spring food back when green stuff was scarce, some folks looked at it as a spring tonic. Same with Sassafras tea. I recall that you should dig the roots in Jan. before the sap started rising. miles
I made some Sassafras tea just last year. It's getting hard to find the trees around here now.
My Grandpa was born and raised in TN, and swore that Poke Salad made good greens.
I like most greens but not poke, although I ate a lot of it as a child. Back then you ate what was put on the table. Beware that it is poison unless cooked. miles
I worked for a local truck farmer from 12 until I could drive. He raised cabbage, kale, turnip greens, mustard, etc. Anytime he was taking a load of whatever to the farmer's market he was always happy to take Poke Salad that any of us boys had cut to sell and he'd bring cash back to us. He never brought any Poke Salad back. He said black folks always bought it all.
My grandfather liked it and I ate it with him several times but I didn't like any greens then...might like it better now.
Good post Scott. It's been a LONG time since I've had hoe cakes. I need to remedy that.
You lift too many heavy weights to eat too many greens.
Ha! I don't turn my nose up at much food but greens have never been a favorite.
LOL, same/same, I eat more than I want just for the good in them.
My Grandmother used to cook Poke and another weed called "doc or dock". Not sure how it is spelled or if it is just a weed specific to this area of the country. Anyway, she washed, put both in a pot, and cooked it all day. Seasoned with some fatback, it wasn't bad. A drop or two of vinegar helped.
I've also had some great turnip greens with cracklin' cornbread served with honey or maple syrup at Stan's Restaurant in Columbia, Tn. Thinking it might be worth the trip again.
My Grandmother used to cook Poke and another weed called "doc or dock". Not sure how it is spelled or if it is just a weed specific to this area of the country. Anyway, she washed, put both in a pot, and cooked it all day. Seasoned with some fatback, it wasn't bad. A drop or two of vinegar helped.
I've also had some great turnip greens with cracklin' cornbread served with honey or maple syrup at Stan's Restaurant in Columbia, Tn. Thinking it might be worth the trip again.
That's funny Doug, the wife and I have eaten at Stan's and we loved the cracklin cornbread too. I make it about once a year.
We talked about making the drive over there again too.
Re Poke Salad, come on you guys, there is so much real food, I am not about to try to boil the poisen out of something so I can eat it.
Used to be an old Doctor down around Humphrey, Ar. that said that any person that ate two messes of Poke in the spring, He would treat them the rest of the year for free. Not only an early spring food back when green stuff was scarce, some folks looked at it as a spring tonic. Same with Sassafras tea. I recall that you should dig the roots in Jan. before the sap started rising. miles
Y'all realize broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and even cabbageand such from That family all have a toxin in them? Ever meet anyone that just can't stick those veggies in their mouth because of the bitter taste they perceive? That's the old toxin marker that is in some folks DNA! It's been mutated out of most of us. But some folks still pick it up!! Way back when it was all allegedly toxic to most humans? I dunno why they kept eating it. Hungry I guess?
Archaeologist son explained it to me. I may not have explained it quite as well as he does. But that's the main gist.
My Grandmother used to cook Poke and another weed called "doc or dock". Not sure how it is spelled or if it is just a weed specific to this area of the country. Anyway, she washed, put both in a pot, and cooked it all day. Seasoned with some fatback, it wasn't bad. A drop or two of vinegar helped.
I've also had some great turnip greens with cracklin' cornbread served with honey or maple syrup at Stan's Restaurant in Columbia, Tn. Thinking it might be worth the trip again.
It's Sourdock, I'll bet. A group used to travel down the Little a Wichita River close to its mouth in Lake Arrowhead once the crappie started spawning. There were three or four families camping out of their boats for a couple days.
They had a pot of greens on the campfire and said it was Sourdock. They showed me the plants which grew right next to the water. I wish I had hung around to eat with them but I was busy fishing.
I make corn cakes like this just about every morning. Boil extra water when I make coffee and mix with corn flour and salt to make a thick batter. When the bacon is done I spoon the batter into the pan.When the cakes get flipped the 1st time they get flattened a bit. Eggs get cooked last. If I'm out of bacon I will use coconut oil. This is the only "bread" I eat anymore. Can't eat the crap they sell in the stores and I don't like making yeast breads, would rather be outdoors having fun.
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