Salit greens

[sidelock]

Anybody pickin wild SALIT GREENS yet??????

 

[coloradoclyde]

What is a salit?

 

[Black Hand]

Pokeweed.

 

[coloradoclyde]

The misspelling threw me.... :idunno:

 

[Black Hand]

The term Salit was rattling around in my head - I'd heard it before. Looked it up to refresh my memory...

 

[Einsiedler]

4'-5' high here in the bottom on my place. . (But then I already have tomatoes as big as tennis balls In the garden too). You're welcome to come pick all you can haul off
Had onions all over the bottom too. But I thing daughter and SIL's horses ate all of em.

 

[Billnpatti]

Anybody pickin wild SALIT GREENS yet??????

I love them but haven't picked any since leaving Indiana. When I lived in Indiana, we lived out in the country and they were plentiful. Only the young leaves are edible, the large leaves get too tough to eat. I always parboiled them twice before cooking them. They contain a mild toxin that can cause gastric distress in some people if it is not removed by parboiling a couple times before cooking. Apparently the toxin doesn't bother everyone and some folks can simply boil them and eat them without having to parboil them. I don't know if I am one of those lucky people or not because I have never tried to find out. I haven't seen them growing here in Central Texas. I sure do miss them because they are delicious.

 

[Einsiedler]

"I haven't seen them growing here in Central Texas".

There here! Mostly east of IH 35. And I told a fib. Ones here are over 6' tall. I just don't pay much attention to them.

 

[Billnpatti]

Ones here are over 6' tall. I just don't pay much attention to them.

When they first sprouted, they were greens but now, at 6 feet tall, they are just weeds. Next spring, you will have to invite me over and we will pick them when they are just starting to come up. :thumbsup:

BTW, when they put out berries, the juice makes great jelly but don't eat the berries because the seeds will stick in your throat and feel like you are eating sand. Pick the ripe berries, mash them up and put them in a cloth bag. Squeeze out the juice and use it to make some pretty darn good jelly.

 

[Black Hand]

Pokeweed is also known for its toxicity. http://www.umm.edu/health/medical/ency/articles/pokeweed-poisoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana

 

[Einsiedler]

Here's a big plant (poke salat) I just went out and snapped this pic. Some smaller ones still coming up. But apparently the horses like to tear it up. They won't eat it. Just tear it up or stomp It over. But this stuff is in all the bottoms down here.


Along with poison ivy and cottonmouths. Oh, and one of the locals killed an 11' gator down in the creek several years ago.

I'm more of a Carnivore myself! I can sympathize with the gator.

 

[Billnpatti]

Pokeweed is also known for its toxicity. http://www.umm.edu/health/medical/ency/articles/pokeweed-poisoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytolacca_americana[/quote]

I was aware of it having toxic properties but I have safely eaten it for several years with no ill effects. I, as well as many of my neighbors in Indiana, have also eaten the jelly made with the juice from the fruit with no ill effects. As far as the greens, we only eat the tender young leaf shoots and they are parboiled at least twice before cooking. The parboiling removes all of the toxins. As a rule of thumb when parboiling, when the water no longer has a "weedy" odor, the greens are safe to cook and eat. I have never had to parboil the leaves more than twice to remove all of the weedy odor. While the properly prepared and cooked greens are quite safe, tasty and nutritious, if you are not comfortable eating them, don't. Strangely, you can occasionally find canned poke salat in some stores.

 

[Einsiedler]

"Strangely, you can occasionally find canned poke salat in some stores."


Well that would certainly make Annie happy!!!

😁

 

[tenngun]

:rotf: omg read that three or for times trying to think what you were thinking. Then it was 'oh crap'. But, but Annie was to poor to buy it canned, don't know what she ate for 2/3 of the year.

 

[Einsiedler]

Vicious straight-razor toting woman!

Lawd have mercy!!!!

😂

 

[Claude Mathis]

"Strangely, you can occasionally find canned poke salat in some stores."


Well that would certainly make Annie happy!!!

I hear gators got her Granny?

 

[Einsiedler]

Because her momma worked on a chain gang!!!

 

[tenngun]

Every body said it was a shame

 

[Billnpatti]

Whaaaaaat ???? After reading the last 4 posts, I've been so lost and confused that I've been winding my butt and scratching my watch trying to figure it all out. :hmm: First of all, I may be dumb as a sack of hair, but who is Annie? :idunno:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Whaaaaaat ???? After reading the last 4 posts, I've been so lost and confused that I've been winding my butt and scratching my watch trying to figure it all out. :hmm: First of all, I may be dumb as a sack of hair, but who is Annie? :idunno:

They've been eating the "weeds" again..... :rotf: