Re: [gardeners] Cooked Turnips!

Michael & Bambi Cantrell (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 00:07:10 -0500

I love mustard, turnips and collards.  If it's green, I'll probably eat it.
:-)
Don't much care for the little green worms, though.
We use bullion for most of our seasoning, but my grandmother used
bacon grease for a lot of her seasoning, and boy, was it ever good!

Bambi
Coastal Carolina


>How about mustard greens, George?  My grandmother always grew them in her
>garden.  I loved the way she prepared them with bacon fat.  Ahhhhhh!  I can
>feel my arteries clogging just by thinking about them!  It must not have
>hurt my Nana, she is still cooking collard greens and rapidly approaching
>90.  I hope to God I have her  genes.
>
>As for turnips, I agree with you George, I don't like them cooked, just
>raw.
>
>Myra Amler
>amler@mindspring.com
>"Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?" Unknown
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Shirley [SMTP:gshirley@laol.net]
>Sent: Saturday, January 02, 1999 9:37 AM
>To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
>Subject: Re: [gardeners] Cooked Turnips!
>
>I eat raw turnips, quite fond of them. Just don't care for cooked ones or
>the
>greens, nasty stuff. Yuchh! I don't eat grits either so guess I'm not a
>true
>southerner. <VBG>
>
>George
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