Collards!

                                                 

This marks the tenth year (wow…) since I self published the little cookbook whose picture you see above.   It was low-budget and fun– a major accomplishment for me in terms of really going the distance with a creative writing project.  I would really like to update it.  We’ll see.   In any case, posting about Big Man and I at Red Rooster reminded me of one one of my favorite recipes from my Afro-Bohemian cookbook.  couve, or Brazilian style collard greens.   Collards and kale are my favorite greens and I find ways to regularly work them into my home menu in a variety of ways.  Like one of my favorite foodies, the legendary Vertamae Grosvenor says in her book Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee, “A bowl of collard greens does for me what chicken soup does for others.”    Try the recipe and see if you say the same.

Browngirl and a cast iron pan of green goodness