Recipe: Southern Collard Greens

By Stacey Little
Southern Bite

When folks think of the South, I imagine they’d think of Southern food – things like okra, cornbread, grits, sweet tea and Southern collard greens. Those are all things a true Southern cook should know how to prepare. Oddly enough, though, I’ve found that many folks are scared of greens. Not only in preparing them, but eating them, too. Southern collard greens are just about my favorite vegetable. I’ve been told that when I was little, I would turn down a bowl of ice cream for a bowl of collards and some cornbread. At the end of the season, my grandfather would harvest the remaining leaves and pull up the collard plants and I would take the plants and go plant them in the backyard for them to grow more.

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