taste sorta like spinich, kat. i like turnip greens and collards too, kyle.
add the requisit cornbread, some pepper sauce for some people (not me).
poor people usually ate poke salet because it grew wild.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cleveland, Kyle E. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 10:07 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day


I suppose yankees would say "poke salad", but it's a tender spring green
from the "pokeberry" plant (Phytolacca Americana) that is indigenous to the
southeast US.  You have to be careful, as the mature leaves contain a strong
emetic, to the point of being poisonous.  Do a yahoo search on "poke salet"
and you'll find some decent recipes.

-Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Salkin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:57 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day


OK, enlighten me, please.  What's poke salet?

Kat

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:08:57 -0400 "Cleveland, Kyle E."
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dig that!  My parents have been up watching the kids while Laura went to
HOuston for a bone marrow biopsy.  Sunday morning breakfast was biscuits and
red-eye gravy, scrambled eggs, grits and poke salet (that I'd canned this
spring).  I get to eat like this about twice/year.  Sure, I could hear my
arteries slapping shut from all the fat, but it was well worth it!

-KYle

-----Original Message-----
From: BG Greer, PhD [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 7:10 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day


In a message dated 6/16/02 3:37:08 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

>yes, happy fathers day to you bobby, and all the others. We went out to
>eat, got the southern cooked veggies that i can get otherwise.

we're having southern breakfast tonight! yum yum!

Bobby