Polk-salet

The polk-salet is growing in East Texas folks ! Polk greens, polk salad, what ever you want to call it. If you ain’t never tried it you need to, its wild and it’s free and fresh, tastes better than spinach and remember to boil it and drain it three times because it’s poisonous. I like it with wild onions and scrambled eggs. Be careful picking them wild onions cause there’s a plant called ” crow poison ” that looks like them. Store bought or garden onions will do. Cut up some bacon and fry it with the onions then put the boiled and drained polk in the skillet with it to simmer a little, add the scrambled eggs and cook to your liking. Splash a little Louisiana hot sauce on top and you got a Hillbilly deluxe fancy meal. It grows wild along fence rows, old barns, corrals and brush piles. Cut the tops and the tender leaves about 6 or 8 inches down from the top, more will grow from what you leave. Hillbilly survival skills, I grew up eating this and I love it!