Turnip Greens w/turnips

[dollfus46]

Anybody got a killer basic recipe for this with a load of seasoning? I've never made them myself. :smt102

[58ford]

You don't need a lot of seasoning, you need a hunk of fatty smoked pork or some bacon & a little salt.
Then you need good pepper sauce (Cayennes or chillis, soaking in white vinegar)
Any futzing around with turnips is a waste of time you'll just ruin them.
You'll also need some corn bread to soak up the pot liquor. Throwing out pot liquor will send you straight to hell.

[eyescene]

Wash 3 -4 times....cut up...add bacon fat, about 4-5 tablespoons....and heat....add your greens dripping with water...add to hot grease....make sure you add a little more water...then....cook around 30- 40 minuets...or till done....add salt and chopped roots about 10-15 minuets before done.

[kevin]

I've got about 15 gallon bags of turnips in the freezer wish you were here be glad to give you some. Just add a little salt pork and the roots cut up in them.I elect to cook my turnip roots seperate though and add later.I like the roots alone with cornbread.I have a real good pepper sauce recipe somewhere around here goes real good with some turnips. Really though you can't mess up turnips it's like a ice cold beer.

[MSQueen]

i love greens... all except collards (i think?) -- whichever ones tend to be thicker/tougher and bitter. love cornbread and the pot liquor, too! yummmm!

i have only tried to cook greens ONE TIME in my life, and believe me, I CAN MESS 'EM UP!! :smt118 they tasted like i pulled grass and weeds up and put grease in them... yuck!!!!!! my mama tells me over and over how easy it is to fix them, and i say yeah, yeah.... it's just one of those things i cannot cook. (i still can't fix good pan gravy) ........... yeah, yeah, i know......... what can i say? :smt103

[bpitt]

I love turnip roots, dem goooooddd....

[dollfus46]

You don't need a lot of seasoning, you need a hunk of fatty smoked pork or some bacon & a little salt.
Then you need good pepper sauce (Cayennes or chillis, soaking in white vinegar)
Any futzing around with turnips is a waste of time you'll just ruin them.
You'll also need some corn bread to soak up the pot liquor. Throwing out pot liquor will send you straight to hell.

I'm with you on the pot likker and corn bread. Corn bread NO SUGAR ADDED.Best part. I like to add pepper sauce to it. Crystal brand is good. I just don't know how much smoked pork. What do they call it in the store? Streak-o-lean, fatback?

[dollfus46]

i love greens... all except collards (i think?) -- whichever ones tend to be thicker/tougher and bitter. love cornbread and the pot liquor, too! yummmm!

i have only tried to cook greens ONE TIME in my life, and believe me, I CAN MESS 'EM UP!! :smt118 they tasted like i pulled grass and weeds up and put grease in them... yuck!!!!!! my mama tells me over and over how easy it is to fix them, and i say yeah, yeah.... it's just one of those things i cannot cook. (i still can't fix good pan gravy) ........... yeah, yeah, i know......... what can i say? :smt103

Greens are the most tender, then collards then mustard greens, which I don't much care for. I love collard greens as much as turnip greens. But I don't eat mustard greens.
Sounds like it was mustard greens you tried to cook MSQ. HA!

[dollfus46]

I've got about 15 gallon bags of turnips in the freezer wish you were here be glad to give you some. Just add a little salt pork and the roots cut up in them.I elect to cook my turnip roots seperate though and add later.I like the roots alone with cornbread.I have a real good pepper sauce recipe somewhere around here goes real good with some turnips. Really though you can't mess up turnips it's like a ice cold beer.
Aw, Maaaaan! You coulda gone all day and not tole me dat!:smt118 I love turnips. Do you just boil them in water with fatback?

[kevin]

I'm with you on the pot likker and corn bread. Corn bread NO SUGAR ADDED.Best part. I like to add pepper sauce to it. Crystal brand is good. I just don't know how much smoked pork. What do they call it in the store? Streak-o-lean, fatback?


If you have any heath problems be it HBP or Coronary Artery Disease etc I'd say none perhaps just Ham. Just as little pork goes a LONG way like 4 ounces . Yeah I get really frustrated with people who cook sugared cornbread. I cook cornbread for me in the oven but if it's just you perhaps a cornbread cake.Done with cornmeal in a skillet.It's quicker and easier and less waste.

[kevin]

Aw, Maaaaan! You coulda gone all day and not tole me dat!:smt118 I love turnips. Do you just boil them in water with fatback?

I usually do it with only a strip of bacon makes it just as good.

[dollfus46]

If you have any heath problems be it HBP or Coronary Artery Disease etc I'd say none perhaps just Ham. Just as little pork goes a LONG way like 4 ounces . Yeah I get really frustrated with people who cook sugared cornbread. I cook cornbread for me in the oven but if it's just you perhaps a cornbread cake.Done with cornmeal in a skillet.It's quicker and easier and less waste.

My cornbread has :Corn Meal, Buttermilk, baking soda, egg, salt and hot grease..No sugar. No Flour. And I bake it in the oven in a cast iron skillet.

[58ford]

My cornbread has :Corn Meal, Buttermilk, baking soda, egg, salt and hot grease..No sugar. No Flour. And I bake it in the oven in a cast iron skillet.
I use pretty much the same recipe, but I halve the milk & add a can of cream corn. Also, I was unaware that it was possible to make corn bread in anything but cast iron.

[mac]

You don't need a lot of seasoning, you need a hunk of fatty smoked pork or some bacon & a little salt.
Then you need good pepper sauce (Cayennes or chillis, soaking in white vinegar)
Any futzing around with turnips is a waste of time you'll just ruin them.
You'll also need some corn bread to soak up the pot liquor. Throwing out pot liquor will send you straight to hell.

He's right.

1. bacon fat
2. bacon fat
3. bacon fat
4. salt
5. STRAIGHT to hell (by way of a heart attack from all the bacon fat)

[Hermione]

I've mentioned this before, but y'all do realize that in other parts of the South it's "greens" and "turnips" not roots. When I first moved here could NOT figure out what the heck "roots" were. ;)

[eyescene]

yes ma'am I've heard it both ways!

[Maggie-Doodle]

GEEZ, ya'll making me hungry! I will be glad when it cools off...greens are always better to me when it is cool!

[kevin]

GEEZ, ya'll making me hungry! I will be glad when it cools off...greens are always better to me when it is cool!


Especially Collard Greens are better cool! I had to have some just cause Dollfus mentioned greens I went into a pavlovian fit!!Oh,with Cornbread yes cooked in the only thing cornbread was intented to be in.Yes, a Cast Iron skillet.Thanks Dollfus I had to dig in the freezer.

[dollfus46]

Especially Collard Greens are better cool! I had to have some just cause Dollfus mentioned greens I went into a pavlovian fit!!Oh,with Cornbread yes cooked in the only thing cornbread was intented to be in.Yes, a Cast Iron skillet.Thanks Dollfus I had to dig in the freezer.
You thank me but I never got the INVITATION to join you!:(

[dollfus46]

Hermione agrees: This is the Correct, Divinely Authorized, Way to Cook Cornbread. Anything else is heresy, apostasy, and sin.

Not sure what two of those adj. mean but sounds like I done gooood.:clap:
There's another type of cornbread that I'm not sure of the name but it's corn meal and water? Fried in a skillet and looks like a pancake when it comes out. Put salt and butter on it and eat it like a cookie. I've tried to make it but can't get it done in the middle.

[dollfus46]

I use pretty much the same recipe, but I halve the milk & add a can of cream corn. Also, I was unaware that it was possible to make corn bread in anything but cast iron.

Now, I love creamed corn, homemade or out of a can. That sounds wonderful. I'll give it a try for sure, but I'll have to call it something else besides corn bread. Heh heh heh. Creamed corn bread? As for cast iron, I'm pretty sure (as opposed to real sure) you can make cornbread in other things I'd guess. Corn bread muffins are made in non stick muffin tins.

[dollfus46]

I've mentioned this before, but y'all do realize that in other parts of the South it's "greens" and "turnips" not roots. When I first moved here could NOT figure out what the heck "roots" were. ;)
I think I prolly had to have "roots" defined for me the first time I heard the term, but, thats what they really are.

[58ford]

Hermione agrees: This is the Correct, Divinely Authorized, Way to Cook Cornbread. Anything else is heresy, apostasy, and sin.

Not sure what two of those adj. mean but sounds like I done gooood.:clap:
There's another type of cornbread that I'm not sure of the name but it's corn meal and water? Fried in a skillet and looks like a pancake when it comes out. Put salt and butter on it and eat it like a cookie. I've tried to make it but can't get it done in the middle.
Yeah, it can be made of corn meal or flour cooked on a dry frying pan or a hoe blade, it's called a hoe cake or a dodger, I've heard it called a couple of other names too. I like 'em with molasses.

[58ford]

Corn bread muffins are made in non stick muffin tins.
Teflon was invented by SATAN!

[Hermione]

Your fried cornbread isn't getting done in the middle because either you're making them too thick or your skillet isn't hot enough. Just a thought.