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