kthread cooks: the color of collards
Recipe: (for a houseful of people) Add four tablespoons olive oil or 2 pieces of bacon, diced to a large pot over medium. Heat 3 minutes. Add 1/2 small onion, diced, cook 3 min; add 5 cloves garlic, minced–cook 1 min. Add 6 to 8 cups of water (depending on how many in your house), bring to boil. Chop one bunch collards and one bunch kale into 1/2in pieces, add to water. Cover and simmer 25 minutes. (Throw in diced red pepper if you like.) Season and serve with cornbread. Update: And add a little splash of vinegar (I like apple cider) at the end, if you like. (Thanks for reminding me, Phil!)
Cornbread recipe recommendation: Mark Bittman, New York Times, September 26, 2008 Recipe of the Day
use: whole milk, substitute: 1/4 c light brown sugar, add: 3 chopped scallions to batter
reading recommendation: Why I Live at the P.O., Eudora Welty
listening recommendation: Lost Coastlines, Okkervil River
collards wallpaper on Flickr
drink pairing: whiskey and rye
salt recommendation: table
Resolutions? New Year’s Day traditions? What do you think should accompany cornbread?
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Posted by Kristen Taylor on Thursday, January 1st, 2009, 7:02 pm * Filed in Design. * Tags: collard, cooks, cornbread, day, Food, greens, kitchen, kristen, kthread, luck, new, taylor, year's. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:25 am
One of the essential ingredients for collards is vinegar. Emmerefffers love some vinegar on they collards ’round here.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:33 am
Phil, you are so right. I’m going to update the recipe to add a little splash of vinegar–happy new year to you–