Family and Food

I grew up in Kentucky, and have alot of memories/experiences from the women in my life. When I was a child while my mom taught school I would stay with my great granny. I can remember in the mornings the smell of thick bacon frying in a skillet, eggs, biscuits, gravy, sometimes grits and coffee. Granny would fry "thick" bacon that she specially had cut till it was like pork cracklings. The other night I was at the market and I saw some of this thick sliced bacon, and I bought a few pounds. While I was picking out meats with my roomate Andy. We were talking about different foods. The lady behind the meat counter stated I bet you can cook good. My roomate stated he can burn a pan, and make some of the best greens, and cheese grits. So, the next thing I knew, I was giving my receipt for mixed greens to this girl @ the meat counter. So, here is my greens receipt and I hope you all try it out.
Note: "When making greens make sure to wash your greens really well." Dirt and sand gets into the leafs, and not washing them appropriately will ruin your pot of greens. You can cheat a little most grocery stores had them already clean, cut, and bagged. I use 1 bunch of mustard greens, 1 kale green bunch, 1 turnip green bunch, 1 collard green bunch. I then soak, and run water over them in my kitchen sink. Then their ready to cook! I use a "large industrial sized kettle," and place my greens in the pan. Then I add 1 standard pitcher of water, and 1 ham hock, 3 tbsp. salt, 1 can chicken broth, and my secret ingriedent is Goya pork favoring seasoning/ 3 packages. Then you just cook my greens down, till there soft and able to cut them with a fork. While my greens are cooking I chop up some green onions 5 or 6 stalks. The next step cut up 8 slices of bacon into small pieces. In a frying pan fry bacon and onions together till bacon is semi done, not crispy, plus don't throw away the grease. When greens are done drain and place greens in the frying pan with the bacon and onions. Fry your greens and add pinch cayenne pepper , 1 tsp. Louisana hot sauce, taste and season with salt, and your ready to serve. Some suggestions is serve with spoon bread, or corn bread with them and cheesie grits. My next blog I will share my cheesie grit receipt. So hope you all will share your special memories or receipes with me on this blog, and as we say down south y'all come back to visit.
Please feel free to comment.