Poke Salad

[Grizz83]

Anybody else like to pick poke salad this time of year? There's been a few threads on dewberries lately so I'm curious if any of yall do this as well. Picking poke salad and dewberries is a yearly tradition for us. Cook up the greens southern style for my yearly "spring tonic", followed up with a dewberry cobbler.

[Neck]

What the heck is a poke salad? Or have I been living under a rock?

[Tryton]

I did it as a kid with my grand parents in Arkansas. I wouldn't know what it looks like now.

My Granny put boiled eggs in her poke salad but didn't in any other greens like collards or mustard.

[panhandlehunter]

My granny from Tennessee always did.

[Radar]

Poke leaves, bacon bits,chopped green onion. Then top it with oil(hot bacon grease when was poor) and vinegar and black pepper. Did the same thang with dandelion greens.

I bet you get some dandy answers though.

[jerp]

What the heck is a poke salad? Or have I been living under a rock?

Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods, and the fields
And it looks somethin' like a turnip green
Everybody calls it polk salad
Now that's polk........ salad
Used to know a girl lived down there and she'd go out in the evenings and
Pick her a mess of it
Carry it home and cook it for supper
Because that's about all they had to eat
But they did all right
"Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean
Lived a girl, that I swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame
Polk salad Annie, gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Because her momma was a workin' on the chain gang"

[Muskles]

I don't think I've ever eaten it, but I have a pretty good crop of it this year.

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[Radar]

^^^^^
Tony Joe White! He sang that.

[Grizz83]

I did it as a kid with my grand parents in Arkansas. I wouldn't know what it looks like now.

My Granny put boiled eggs in her poke salad but didn't in any other greens like collards or mustard.

[bullhead44]

Anybody else like to pick poke salad this time of year? There's been a few threads on dewberries lately so I'm curious if any of yall do this as well. Picking poke salad and dewberries is a yearly tradition for us. Cook up the greens southern style for my yearly "spring tonic", followed up with a dewberry cobbler.

Did the sane thing as a kid growing up. We picked dewberries abs my dad picked poke salad. I never ate it growing up though. We have lots of berries up here,bout Haven’t thought about poke salad in years

[AntlerCollector]

Yep. I tried it once and wasn't impressed. My pawpaw loved to make it

[silentstalker92]

How does it differ from a regular salad? Lets say a ceasar salad?

[MQ32Shooter]

Never ate it, but googled how it was supposed to be cooked. Looks like you got to be careful in the prep.

[jerp]

The plant is actually called Poke Salat but people make salad out of it. Here is a primer:

http://www.foragingtexas.com/2006/04/pokeweedpoke-salat.html

[Radar]

Never ate it, but googled how it was supposed to be cooked. Looks like you got to be careful in the prep.

Cant eat the big leaves, if they make milk, do not eat. Big leaves is for wiping with and little leaves is for eating.