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Collard GreensA nice woman at work gave me a bunch of Collard Greens from her garden last week. If you don’t know or haven’t ate Collard Greens before then I feel sorry for you. Collards are a southern and soul food staple.

Collards Greens are super simple to cook and most importantly are damn good for you. Collard Greens are full of
vitamin C and also have a ton of anti-cancer properties that
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To this day, you can’t pay me to eat spinach from a can. Canned spinach is straight shit and I’d just as soon starve to death or eat cat before canned spinach. All this being said and known, fresh good Collard Greens are nothing like spinach and are a million times better.

Collard Greens2Cooking Collard Greens is a simple process. All you need is some type of smoked or cured meat, an onion, some chicken stock, vinegar, crushed red pepper and you’re on your way to the races. Typically the meat is ham hocks, but you can use bacon, neck bones, smoked turkey leg, whatever you have. The more ghetto the better it tastes.

There are two parts to good Collard Greens. The Collards and the broth the Collards have cooked in. This liquid is called the “pot liquor”. Its full of nutrients and is best when you soak it up with some corn bread. Hell I drink it right from the bowl when I am done eating the Collards but then again I am a heathen and don’t have a damn to give.

Try some Collards, get healthy, feel good, and thank me later.

Collard Greens
 
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The most basic and best tasting soul food recipe is Collard Greens. Easy to make and good for you.
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Recipe type: Side
Cuisine: Southern Soul Food
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • 2 Bunches of Collard Greens
  • ½ Pound Bacon (6-8 slices)
  • 1 Yellow Onion chopped
  • 1 Quart of Chicken Stock
  • 2 Cups of Water
  • 1 Tablespoon crushed Red Pepper
  • 2 Tablespoons of Vinegar
Instructions
  1. Rinse all sand from Collard Leaves
  2. Rip all the green leaf from the stems discard stems
  3. Chop the green leafy parts of the Collards set aside
  4. Chop uncooked Bacon
  5. In large pot cook Bacon over medium heat 3-5 minutes until soft and starting to render
  6. Add chopped Onion to cooking Bacon and fat stir and cook until translucent
  7. Add Chicken Stock
  8. Add Water
  9. Add chopped clean Collard Greens (add in batches greens will wilt down fast)
  10. Add crushed Red Pepper flakes
  11. Bring to boil, cover, reduce heat to medium low and simmer for an hour and half or two hours
  12. Add Vinegar stir serve.

Roast Pork Tenderloin with Apricot Mustard Reduction

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I got inspiration for this over at Hilahcooking.com If you are not familiar with Hilah then I would seriously advise you to head on over to her site and poke around. Hilah makes short Youtube cooking videos and she is awesome and funny with a capital Holy Shit! She is from Austin, Texas and has a flair for Tex Mex.

Anyway this is my interpretation of Roast Pork Tenderloin with a Apricot Mustard Reduction.  Todays pork is pretty lean, so the health conscious among us shouldn’t worry too much. As you can see I threw in some roasted red potatoes, squash, and zucchini to null out any doubt of bad caloric intake.

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Roast Pork Tenderloin with Apricot Mustard Reduction
 
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A quick and easy roasted pork tenderloin. Pork is pretty lean and flavorless these days so kick up the flavor with a simple apricot and mustard reduction.
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Recipe type: Entree
Cuisine: American
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 1 Pork Tenderloin
  • 1 Small Jar of Apricot Preserves
  • 1 Small Jar of Whole Grain Mustard
  • 1 Small Shallot Minced
  • ¼ Cup of Red Wine Vinegar
  • ½ Cup of Chicken Stock
  • 1 Tablespoon Fresh Grated Ginger
  • Salt
  • Pepper
Instructions
  1. For Pork:
  2. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees
  3. Tie off Pork Tenderloin with butchers string every couple inches
  4. Season Pork Tenderloin with Salt and Pepper
  5. In a heavy oven proof skillet (cast iron) brown Pork Tenderloin over medium high heat 2-4 min per side
  6. When Pork Tenderloin has been browned on all sides move to pre-heated 400 degree oven.
  7. Cook Pork Tenderloin in oven. Check every 20 minutes for internal temperature of 155 degrees
  8. Remove Pork Tenderloin and tent with foil and let rest for 10 minutes
  9. For Sauce:
  10. In separate skillet sweat minced shallot in tablespoon of olive oil and or butter over medium heat
  11. Add about a Cup of Apricot Preserve
  12. Add about ¼ Cup of Whole Grain Mustard
  13. Add ¼ Cup of Red Wine Vinegar
  14. Add ½ Cup of Chicken Stock
  15. Add Tablespoon of Fresh Grated Ginger or ½ Tablespoon of Dry Powdered Ginger
  16. Mix ingredients in skillet and bring to easy boil
  17. Reduce heat medium low and allow sauce to reduce by about ⅓ or ½
  18. Slice rested Pork Tenderloin and server with Apricot Mustard Reduction

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Belgian Waffles

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 eggs, separated
  • 1-1/2 cups milk
  • 1 cup of butter, melted
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

In a bowl whisk to combine the flour, sugar and baking powder.

In another bowl, beat the egg yolks. Add milk, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Mix well.

Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients in bowl number 1 until just combined.

Beat eggs whites until firm peaks form. Fold beaten egg whites into batter now in bowl number 1.

Batter will be very stiff and airy. Spoon batter into pre-heated waffle maker to manufactures specifications for amount per serving. My waffle maker makes rather deep eight inch waffles. This recipe makes enough batter to make about four complete waffles.

Eat and enjoy.

Pork Fried Rice.

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Ingredients:

  • 10-12oz of cooked pork (ribs, roast, pork chops whatever)
  • 1 green bell pepper
  • 1 yellow onion
  • 1 small habanero pepper
  • 3 small stalks of celery
  • 1 cup shredded lettuce
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 4 cups cooked rice
  • 2 tablespoons garlic powder
  • 2-4 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2-4 tablespoons Sriracha chili Sauce
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Vegetable oil
  • A pinch of just pure personally you can do anything awesomeness.

I chopped up some pork, and then diced up some onion, bell pepper, lettuce, celery, a habanero, a couple beaten eggs and broke out the wok. Some soy sauce, a load or two of Sriracha chili sauce, garlic power, salt, pepper and you pretty much have the ingredients for greatness.

Onions, bell pepper, habanero, celery, meat into a hot wok with some oil. Stir, shake, stir, shake repeat until translucent and soft.

Add in your seasoning, chili sauce, soy sauce, and continue to cook and let liquid evaporate off.

Another good shot of oil then stir, shake, stir, shake repeat.

Spoon/shovel all the vegetables and meat up the sides of the wok leaving the hot center bare. Should have enough oil here if not hit it with a teaspoon or two more. Pour in beaten eggs and scramble eggs in center of wok.

Eggs scrambled, meat heated, vegetables nice and sautéed, dump in four cups of cooked rice.

Stir, shake, stir, shake, repeat. Add a couple tablespoons of soy sauce. Stir, shake, stir, shake, repeat.

Dump in lettuce. Stir, shake, stir, shake, repeat until lettuce just begins to wilt. Remove wok from heat, bowl up some of that greatness and enjoy.

Pork fried rice, kicked up a notch with the chili sauce.

 

Chicken Sandwiches

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Its pretty simple to make an accurate representation of the famous sandwich at home for a fraction of the cost. The trick is the chicken needs to be brined for six hours or overnight is even better.

1.Dissolve 1/2 cup salt and 1/4 cup of sugar in a quart of cold water. Place skinless, boneless chicken breasts in brine. Cover and refrigerate for at least six hours or like I mentioned above over night.

2.Remove chicken from brine and rinse with cold water. Dry breasts with paper towel.

3.Mix two eggs with a cup of milk in container.

4.Make spice mixture of 2 tablespoon pepper, 1 tablespoon paprika, 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1 teaspoon MSG

5.Mix 1 1/2 cups flour, with 2 tablespoons dry milk, 1 tablespoon of baking powder,1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar and half the spice mixture in step 4. listed above.

6.Season chicken breast with spice mixture, then dredge in milk/egg solution then place in flour mixture and cover with and pat down with the seasoned flour. Shake off excess flour.

7.Fry the chicken breasts in 350 degree peanut oil for about 4-6 minutes based on breast size.

8.Toast hamburger buns in melted butter in a non-stick frying pan.

You assemble the sandwiches by placing a few dill pickles slices on the bottom of butter toasted buns. Then simply place the fried chicken on the bun with the pickles and top with the other bun half.

Stuffed Bread

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3 cups (12 3/4 oz) All purpose flour. I use King Arthur for all baking period the end.
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 cup Non-fat dry milk powder
2 tablespoons of potato flour. If you cant find it, you can substitute instant mashed potatoes
1 1/4 teaspoons of salt
2 tablespoons of olive oil
2 1/2 teaspoons of instant yeast. I use SAF yeast for all baking period the end.
I cup (8 oz) of warm water.

Put all dough ingredients into a mixer with dough hook or a bowl and mix/knead until cohesive dough forms. 5 minutes mixer

Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let rise for an hour.

Place dough on lightly floured surface, roll out into a rectangle 12″X18″

Now here you can do what you want for filling. Spread with mustard or not. Leave about an inch space around perimeter. Layer with ham, cheese, Salami, whatever you like.

Roll the dough lengthwise into a roll. Tuck ends underneath and try and pinch the seams to close.

Place roll/loaf on baking sheet with parchment or silpat, cover with plastic again and let rise for another 1.5 to 2 hours. Loaf will puff up. Take scissors and cut about a 1 or 2 inch long slit across the top every few inches.

375 degree oven for 35 minutes.

Let cool for 5-10 minutes, slice and eat.