Polk Salad?

[hounddog]

I was wondering if any one here can tell me about Polk Salad. Is it a salad made from turnip leaves? is it something else? I can't find my Elvis cookbook to see if it was in there.
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[Unchained Melody]

Some where down in louisiana is where you can find it..out in the woods in the fields is where it grows..:P

[Menwithbrokenhearts]

HI
It is a type of green, or spinach type plant that grows wild in the south. Many people fix it up like spinach or "greens" . My grandfather did. I remember picking it for him. It has berries on it as it grows larger and we were told never to eat them or you would get real sick. We used to have battles with them and they stain clothes and skin pretty bad. I also remember him saying that the plant is too tough to eat when it gets that big also.

[Unchained Melody]

Interesting, having a topic about how to cook polk salad...:lmfao:

[Jumpsuit Junkie]

Everybody said it was a shame.......

[poormansgold]

I Got few them growing In My yard, I have cut Them down because I Got 5 Old will or might eat The Berries . about year ago Someone post thread about this plant on here . That I found out I got It On My Yard .
Tom

[presley31]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokeweed

[Diane]

Thanks for the article on Poke Weed Jen...very interesting! (y) I never knew what it looked like and it's nothing like I imagined. I didn't know it had berries for instance.

Diane

[CRITTERGITTER]

There is a festival in Louisiana and one in Tennessee.

http://www.pokesaladfestival.com/

I tried to get someone in my family to help me pick and cook them, but they keep saying I don't want to do it because if you don't do it right it can be dangerous. And then they ask me why I want to. I just don't have the nerve to say "because Elvis sings it." I could just imagine how they would roll their eyes.

[KPM]

Everybody said it was a shame.......
Poor family, what luck- having to pick wild greens to have something to eat-the mama was in prison on a chain gang and a gator got Grannie!
If that is not a family with problems?:lol:

[Diane]

Don't you feel lucky and blessed Ken? :lol: Can't get any worse than that.:D

Diane

[Laura Harrell]

I am from Louisiana and I have polk salad in my backyard. Polk Salad is a wild plant that looks kind of like a turnip green. It has pinkish-red stalks. You prepare it the same way you would turnip greens, with the exception that you have to boil it several times to reduce the toxins that are in it. Turnip greens taste MUCH better!!

[utmom2008]

Poor family, what luck- having to pick wild greens to have something to eat-the mama was in prison on a chain gang and a gator got Grannie!
If that is not a family with problems?:lol:


Don't you feel lucky and blessed Ken? :lol: Can't get any worse than that.:D

Diane

Yes it can. They were all taken hostage at gunpoint by a monkey named Scatter.;);):lol:

[hounddog]

thank you all so much for the info. We don't have anything like polk salad in Australia.
We have a native green called Warrigul greens. Except it doesn't have to be cooked to remove toxins.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~peterrjones/bushtucker/warrigal_greens.htm

[Unchained Melody]

Everybody said it was a shame.......

For the mama was working on the chain-gang ....What a mean, vicious woman :lmfao:

[samiam125]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokeweed

Wow, you learn something new every day! Pokeweed even grows down here in my neck of the woods :supriced::supriced: