Not to hijack DD's thread but I made this tonight and it's very good.
I didn't even go to the store, I had all this in the kitchen.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons oil/butter (optional – substitute bacon drippings)
1 large yellow (Spanish) onion -diced
3 cloves garlic diced
2 pounds ground...
Forgive me padre, I have sinned.
Beans are for my dad. He likes them. That's about what he had growing up, beans, peas, okra, tomatoes, bream, sparrows and cornbread.
I'm quite sure it's good eatin'. I'm on my way to the market to get some peppers myself for a pot of chili. And yes, I'm putting small red beans in it (NOT kidneys).
"Red Fish" in Cincinnati, 1998. Worst collards I ever ate. Some nitwit chef got the bright idea to do an oysters Rockefeller and swap al dente collards for the cooked spinach. Nasty as ****.
I cut the stems out. I scrub the leaves with a hog bristle brush. Must use smoked meat in the pot. Onions like others have said. I use a splash of vinegar and a couple tablespoons sugar in mine.
Homemade (of course) scalloped potatoes & onion w/cheese sauce, "Old church lady" mac & cheese and four slabs of backribs going to my youngest brother's house for dinner. Be about 15 of us.