Posts Tagged ‘Southern greens’

Steak and Southern Greens

A quick and easy lunch! Steak took six minutes to sear nicely in my cast iron frying pan. Heated up leftover Southern greens in microwave for a couple of minutes. Done!

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Southern-style Green Beans and Chinese Broccoli (Recipe)

Tried a recipe for Southern-style greens. They are cooked for a really long time and end up soft, silky and slightly sweet.   I made mine with green beans (one of my least favourite vegetables), gai lan (Chinese broccoli), onion, red wine vinegar, baked ham and lardons (for the smokey flavour), as well as English sausages…

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Delicious Cooked-to-death Vegetables

When I was growing up my mum always over-cooked vegetables like broccoli and Brussels sprouts, turning them into sulfurous mush. So I thought the solution was to cook them to barely tender or even crisp-tender. Unfortunately, I don’t really like some vegetables cooked until just tender, like kale, collard greens and green beans. But the…

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