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Local produce, collards?

ShallowsNole avatar
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I've haven't checked Publix at Watercolor yet, but neither Publix at Carillon nor Publix at Grand Boulevard have collard greens, not even in the little bags. Every kind of :cuss: spinach there is, but no collards. I'm sure they have them in the cans, but that's cheating.

We'd go to DeFunk, but we gotta work tomorrow and we gotta have collards with our blackeyed peas on New Year's Day. Any suggestions? :idontno:

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beats on hood
#2
No collards? :yikes:I didn't buy them today because I was waiting to see how many people I'll be cooking for on Tuesday, thus I didn't look to see if Publix Watercolor had them. I MUST HAVE FRESH COLLARDS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY!

I remember the year that every store in town (back where we live in GA) was out of black-eyed peas. I flipped out! I ended up having to buy canned ones.😱
Garner avatar
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#3
Toni has collard and turnip greens as well as a freezer full of summer peas.:clap:
Banned
#4
Publix at Watercolor had fresh collard greens as of Saturday night. Two for one, actually. We bought kale and mustard greens, as well.
elgordoboy avatar
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#5
Toni has collard and turnip greens as well as a freezer full of summer peas.:clap:
Reiterated..hasn't there been a "keep it local" thing going? They have them washed there as well. Mix mustards and collards for a super treat.
ShallowsNole avatar
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#6
oooooh - thanks!

Isn't Toni on 283?
elgordoboy avatar
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#7
Yes 😀 turn left at the sherwin williams when going north.
SoWal Insider
#8
This is one holiday that I'm sorta glad I live in Chicago.

Collards :puke:
black eyed peas :puke:
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bean
#9
This is one holiday that I'm sorta glad I live in Chicago.

Collards :puke:
black eyed peas :puke:

I was kinda thinking the same thing... I only thought black eyed peas came in a can:idontno:....don't y'all do pork and sauerkraut?
SoWal Insider
#10
I was kinda thinking the same thing... I only thought black eyed peas came in a can:idontno:....don't y'all do pork and sauerkraut?
Well, when I was growing up in ALA, we always ate those collards and blackeyed peas for good luck. But they're yucky to me.
I honestly don't know what's eaten up north. Northerners aren't superstitious I guess. :lol:

You'll need to email me your pork and sauerkraut recipe!
CPort avatar
Beach Fanatic
#11
the only New Years I didn't get any peas I was on Sanibel :angry:Now blackeyed peas are different from most peas you put up in the summer like lady peas or purplehulls or dixie lees or cream or crowder or black crowders or pinkeye purplehulls.
OL we always have cabbage (for $) peas cooked with hamhock (for luck)cornbread and fried porkchops! I like what we eat on New Years tons better than turkey and dressing.:wave:
florida girl avatar
Beach Fanatic
#12
My idea of New Years dinner, is STEAK! Yum! Set the year off right!:lolabove:
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beats on hood
#13
Toni has collard and turnip greens as well as a freezer full of summer peas.:clap:
Thanks for the tip.

Publix at Watercolor had fresh collard greens as of Saturday night. Two for one, actually. We bought kale and mustard greens, as well.
Ditto.

This is one holiday that I'm sorta glad I live in Chicago.

Collards :puke:
black eyed peas :puke:
Hubby refuses to eat collards (with hog jowl) on New Year's Day. So I make green beans for him. But after many years of marriage, he has grown to like my Hoppin' John (basically black-eyed peas and rice). He also likes my cornbread (made with sour cream and creamed corn).

In the cooler month when hubby is out of town, I'll make a big pot of collard greens (they are so healthy for you) and eat them for lunch and dinner for days. I'll sop up the pot likker with the cornbread -- yum!
SoWal Insider
#14
Thanks for the tip.


Ditto.


Hubby refuses to eat collards (with hog jowl) on New Year's Day. So I make green beans for him. But after many years of marriage, he has grown to like my Hoppin' John (basically black-eyed peas and rice). He also likes my cornbread (made with sour cream and creamed corn).

In the cooler month when hubby is out of town, I'll make a big pot of collard greens (they are so healthy for you) and eat them for lunch and dinner for days. I'll sop up the pot likker with the cornbread -- yum!
I like turnip greens but collards were always kind of waxy or something. Maybe my mom didn't cook them correctly.
ShallowsNole avatar
Beach FanaticAuthor
#15
I'm not big on turnips but I adore collards. Once a year, anyway. If I cook 'em...I don't use nearly as much grease as most older folks think is required, and I don't do hog jowl (sorry, BR, just give me five thick slices of bacon instead). I throw in about 1/2 tsp of sugar to cut the bitter taste, which absolutely horrifies Fuzz's grandmother (pictured left).

Blackeyed peas (or hoppin' john) : good luck

Collards: money 😀

Cornbread: required accompaniment to either

And I'm REALLY glad I live in the south; did somebody say sauerkraut? :blink::puke:
ShallowsNole avatar
Beach FanaticAuthor
#16
P.S. After the required serving of blackeyed peas with ham hock, throw in a can of diced tomatoes. It's really good! Plain blackeye peas, two servings, maybe. Blackeye peas with tomatoes, eat for the rest of the week.

And, on a tangent that has no place in the Dining/Food forum: whatever you do, you must absolutely NOT wash clothes on New Year's Day. ;-)
CPort avatar
Beach Fanatic
#17
I've never heard anything about not washing clothes on NYD! Whats up with that?
scooterbug44 avatar
SoWal Expert
#18
Washes your luck away? :idontno:
seaside2 avatar
Beach Fanatic
#19
If I gotta collards (or turnip) greens for good luck, I'll just take bad luck.

Matter of fact, eating the durn things would be bad luck for me.

Ms seaside and lil seaside luv 'em for some reason.

Oh yeah, I remeber: They weren't raised poor!!!:funn::floor:
drsvelte avatar
Beach Fanatic
#20
Sandestin Publix had bagged kale, mustards, and turnip greens Monday afternoon. Bruno's, across from the outlet stores, had bagged collards (which looked pretty sickly). I saw some good looking loose greens (didn't check which ones) in The Fresh Market. I like all kinds of greens, but tomorrow will do a smothered cabbage (with lots of bacon), Hoppin' John, and fried pork chops. Burp!! 😀

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