Preparation / Directions:
Greens:
Put on a very large pot of water to boil
Add a large, thinly sliced dry yellow onion
Salt to taste
Either a Tablespoon or so of Maple Syrup or Sugar
Dried red peppers to taste
2 or 3 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
When this gets boiling nicely, add:
Several bunches of Turnip or Mustard Greens or a combination of the two
washed
and picked. Young, tender greens are best, but if you can't get them, do the
best you can. Cook this for 40 minutes to one hour, depending on how they
cook
and how done you like your greens.
Meanwhile, during the time the greens are cooking, make the cornmeal
dumplings:
Cornmeal Dumplings:
2 cups water
1 cup yellow cornmeal
pinch of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
In a saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Add the cornmeal, baking powder
and
salt, stirring vigorously. Keep stirring until the cornmeal is incorporated.
Take the pot off the burner and add the egg, beating vigorously, fast, fast,
fast. You don't have to, but I like to put in about 1/2 bunch green onions
sliced up in 1/4 inch slices at this point.
Dip your hands in a bowl of cold water and scoop up golf ball size or
smaller
amounts of the dough and form it into a ball. Drop the ball into the boiling
pot of greens. Repeat until all the dough is used. Turn the dumplings over
gently during cooking and continue cooking until the dumplings float. Serve
hot. If you would like, you could top the individual servings of greens with
Black Salsa, the recipe follows:
Black Salsa:
1 or more cucumbers peeled and diced
1 or more firm tomatoes peeled and diced
Sliced green onions
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Black pepper to taste
1/4 cup vinegar (use cider, wine, or balsamic)
1/4 cup water
Mix all this up and put it in the refrigerator until time to use it. This is
excellent as a topping for greens and for black eye peas.
Note: You are going to have to cook these greens the way you cook them
because
I do not eat meat and this is the way I cook them. So, please, by all means,
cook the greens the way you want to cook them, but just be sure and use more
water than normal when cooking t
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