Thread: Poke weeds

Originally Posted by RCC

I'm thinking a next spring poke camp.

Are you starting to plan the next camp!? Thanks for stepping up RCC!

Originally Posted by RCC

Been eating lettuce and onions wilted with bacon grease with a little salt and vinegar sprinkled on. The bacon grease helps the blood slide through the arteries better. I do like some greens (of all kinds) fixed the way you are talking about. Haven't had any poke in years.

I love this kind of cooking as much as the next guy, but I hope you meant that as a joke, cause nothing could be further from the truth.

Surely Annie will chime in here soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz4DvG4bQ2o

My mom was the youngest of 11 kids. She was the baby , born in 29'. The older siblings called her Annie . She thought we had to have a bait of Poke Salad Greens every spring. She even cut up and fried the stalks a few times like Okra .

I don't care for the greens but the stalks are pretty good. Peel off the outer skin, chop and fry like okra.

Any and all! When I was a kid I was The Offish poke salad provider for my grandparents. Great memories!

After reading the post on Poke Sallet I googled it to confirm I knew what it looked like. There was a video of a lady in Mississippi boiling, then sautéing some Poke and green onions. Looked good, then I remembered one of my wife's friends had given us some fresh spinach from her garden, and I had been given some green onions from another friend.
I could stand it no longer. Went in the kitchen, cooked the spinach and onions in olive oil and butter and added some chunks of smoked salmon that I had done a while back.
I just discovered a new dish. I can't tell you how good it was.
Thanks guys.

Yuck! My grandma loved poke. Her kitchen stunk awful when she cooked it.