boiled up some poke for supper

[limbrat]

 The grandson caught some bream in the pond before he had to go home. So i pan fried them and made a lemon butter sauce. Then cleaned the pan and browned some onions. After the second boling on the poke i reinsed them again squeezed them out and added them to the pan. When they got hot i cracked two eggs into the pan and scrambled them in. It was very good and i havent had any since before Maw Maw died in 80.,

[coxy]

ok what is poke? ;D

[ancjr]

Poke Sallet!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca

I figured someone would reply before me, but I guess the rest of the board is a buncha yuppies!   :D

My mom is from Harlan, and they have a festival named for it: http://www.harlanfestivals.com/poke_sallet.htm

[D L Bahler]

Half the folks in Indiana are either from Kentucky or East Tennessee

My dad was comin up from Alabama the other week and drove through east Tennessee and Kentucky, while there some lad asked him where he was from, when he said Indiana she wondered if he was lookin for a place -she was a Realtor.
Turns out, she heard Indiana and just assumed he was one of the thousands who had left that region years back, and now was lookin to move back...

Around here, we always considered poke to be a weed. Maybe because, if you don't treat it right, it's poison...

[Jeff]

Poke Sallet!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca

I figured someone would reply before me, but I guess the rest of the board is a buncha yuppies!   :D

My mom is from Harlan, and they have a festival named for it: http://www.harlanfestivals.com/poke_sallet.htm

Yer new, so we will forgive your lack of knowledge of the history of the Forestry Forum. The first time Polk was discussed here, you were just a yungun.  Time to use the search. It can save from making embarrassing assumptions. ;) ;D

Some photos I took for the forum about 2001

[Texas Ranger]

Fess up Jeff, when was the last time you had grits with a mess of poke greens? :D

[Raider Bill]

Heck even I have have poke sallet. ;)

[Jeff]

With Tom. I also had peach cobbler for desert.

[Raider Bill]

With Tom. I also had peach cobbler for desert.

Great choice!

[ancjr]

I knew the yuppie comment would get a rise outta somebody!   ;) :D

[Sixacresand]

Does anybody actually plant and cultivate poke?  Or does it just come up from manure piles, limb piles and around fence post like on my 6 acres?

[ancjr]

I've seen it canned in the groceries around here, but never seen anybody cultivate it.

[dail_h]

no need to cultivate it,,grows wild almost everywhere

[Kansas]

I remember years ago in my rock n roll days, we played a song called poke salad Annie. Forgot all about that until this thread. Never knew what they were. People really liked it. The song, that is. I never heard of them being in Kansas.

[bama20a]

You can take the stalks when they are young,Boil them for afew seconds,Then peel the skin off,Cut up & fry like okra  ;D Sure is fine eating.

[sawguy21]

I remember years ago in my rock n roll days, we played a song called poke salad Annie. Forgot all about that until this thread. Never knew what they were. People really liked it. The song, that is. I never heard of them being in Kansas.

Tony Joe White  "Poke salad Annie. Gators got yer granny chomp chomp"  ;D Catchy tune but I had no idea what poke salad was.

[Mike@Norwood]

I always thought Poke was a Hawaiin dish with raw tuna. I guess you learn something new everyday.

[tractormanNwv]

Started eating poke back in the late 60's as a kid, along with creasey greens, always seem to be a mainstay on the farm, sure miss it.


Jim

[Al_Smith]

It's an edible weed . I've got it growing everywhere .

[Seaman]

We eat it here but only the tinder leaves of early spring. Old folks say it detoxis your system after a winter of no greens. Never heard of eatin stalks.
Anyone care to guess where it got it's name?
I don't know fo sho, but I got a guess.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

My buddy Randall, a great person but not the sharpest pencil in the box, pulled up a polk weed and noticed the root looked like a tuber so he sliced off a dime sized piece, chewed it a little, it tasted bad, he spit it out and spent the rest of the day in the bathroom and 3 days in bed.

Be careful.