Soup Beans
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Especially with a warm mug of 'cream of boiled water soup'...mm,mm,good...!
2LaneCruzer
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One thing I have never eaten, nor does it sound inviting. I've eaten a lot of squirrel, rabbit, duck, quail, catfish, alligator, possum (Only once), poke salit, okra, head cheese, beef heart, deer, elk, bear and pheasant, but no bean sandwiches. My Dad used to eat dry bread, or popcorn, or cornbread in a glass full of milk, but never a bean sandwich.
My mother used to send us to school with baked bean sandwiches and a little Miracle Whip mixed in. I hated them. Looking back at some of the things I used to whine about eating; baked bean sandwiches, occasionally scrambled eggs for supper; I never realized how lucky I was to always have 3 meals a day, clean, decent clothes, and a warm place to sleep at night.
Bird
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Don't recall ever having any kind of bean sandwich. But I do remember taking biscuit and scrambled egg sandwiches with a pint fruit jar of milk to school for lunch. And since the school did not have a refrigerator for us to use at that time, sometimes my milk would sour before lunch. And in those days, a baloney sandwich on store bought bread was a real treat. My Dad did not like "light bread"; i.e., store bought loaves of bread. Mother baked biscuits, cornbread, or yeast rolls for every meal. Scrambled eggs for supper was very good, and in the heat of the summer, just cornbread crumbled in a glass of milk was a good supper.
The strange thing is that I still don't care for eggs, unless they're doctored up with cheese, sausage, and/or something else good. Yet I've been raising laying hens for the last 6 or 7 years. I share them with my dog and give the rest away.
2LaneCruzer
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I love it...haven't had any for years, but Mom used to cook it for my Dad all the time.
Bird
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I mowed our yard and the next door neighbor's yard day before yesterday and noticed there is poke salit that I should go pick today. About this time last year, I picked it and cooked it, and I'd just about forgotten how good it is.
2LaneCruzer
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What was the deal about boiling it, pouring off the water and adding fresh water? I believe the plant has some oxalic acid or some such that exhibits some poisonous qualities, but we never had a problem with it. We were told that the berries were poison, and not to eat them...so a bunch of us 5 & 6 year old neighborhood kids scrounded up a bunch of empty pop bottles, and made "poison pop". Thank goodness no one ever tried to drink any of it!
Bird
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You'll find recipes online that recommend boiling, pouring the water off, boil it again, and pour that water off a second, or maybe even a third time. But we ate lots of it when I was a kid, and we always boiled it, then poured the water off and put fresh water on it ONCE before finishing cooking it. And that's also what I did last year. I like it better than spinach, turnip greens, and collard greens, although all are good.
2LaneCruzer
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Something we discovered a few years back, when we started gardening, was Swiss Chard. It is really good, I think, and there are lots of ways to fix it. One thing I noticed, is that most greens, Spinach especially, shrink considerably when they are boiled, so you better cook two or there times as much as you think you will need. Swiss Chard has less of a shrinkage problem.
Bird
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I'm sure glad you reminded me that I needed to go pick some Poke Salit, so I just now got the biggest pot we have full and washed (one leaf at a time) and non appeared dirty at all after the recent rain. So now it's on the stove for the parboiling.
