I gathered the first of the poke salat and other wild greens and cooked them for supper....Yummo! I didn't look really hard, so just got poke salat, violet leaves and wild lettuce...a good mix...I washed it, parboiled it once, then finished cooking it in a skillet where I had fried some ham slices cut off the Easter ham...It was really brown looking so I knew it would give the greens a good taste....Thought the 'newbies' on the list might like to read this article I wrote some time back about poke salat...Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I can remember Mama talking to us about the early years of their marriage....Guess Daddy moved away from his farming family with her and they sharecropped to get a start on buying their own farm. She said his relatives were surprised at the different things she canned for the winter....Polk salat , for one thing. They ate it in the Spring but had never thought of canning it for the winter months. It was served cooked with meat grease and with eggs scrambled into it....kinda cuts the 'whang.' 'Course it has to be parboiled because there is a mild poison in the leaves. I like to get it when the fat stalks are just up about 6 inches, and cut it up and cook it all...Mama just picked polk salat and 'mouse ear ' but I recognize about 8 edible wild plants....She sometimes mixed the polk with mustard and turnip greens...You have to remember they didn't have the choices we do now days, and were starved for green things to eat after the long winters diet of soup beans and such.. I believe I saw some polk salat down along the back fence.....Better go pick it if I'm gonna have it for supper.. Hmnnnn....See how this sounds....Polk salat mixed with other wild greens and scrambled up with some of those brown eggs I got at the Amish store...{Free ranging hens, of course....} cornbread, potatoes fried with corn meal on them , and iced tea....Theres green winter onions growing out by the fence that I can cut off just above the root so a new onion will grow...No cake or pies baked, but we can slather some of that Amish store butter on hot cornbread and cover it with peach preserves and get by with that.... ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4db9986e1f5419386m06duc