...so I'll post it here.
We just did our weekly grocery shopping, including the food for tomorrow's Cuban cooking extravaganza.
For the black bean soup, I had to purchase a smoked ham hock, which only comes in a package of three. I didn't want to buy one of them, much less three.
But let me just say, never in the history of my life cooking have I been as grossly fascinated by the site of any foodstuff as I am by the sight of those ham hocks.
Thank God I live in "the South" where those things are available. I suspect if I were trying this in New York, I might have trouble buying such a thing.
1 year ago
4 pearl(s) of wisdom:
Firstly, this isn't the South. It's the midatlantic.
2ndly I'll take those extra ham hocks off your hands iffn you want. As a REAL Southerner, I know what to do with them.
If you're from New York, as I am, this is the south ;-) Although having lived in Arkansas for a year, I can attest that this is not the 'real south'.
The hocks are all yours!!!! I'm glad you want them--I was feeling badly about throwing them away.
I second Manda - I'll take that third ham hock off your hands. Got a can of black eyed peas in the pantry that could stand some "dressin' up".
Talk about some true Southern cookikng.....*sigh* you know, I really do get depressed when I think of what I could have learned from my paternal grandmother had she not passed away just as I was learning how to cook. I've been trying to get her red velvet and caramel cake recipes from my aunts for YEARS.
My mom and my maternal grandmother - if it didn't come from a box or can, I probably didn't get cooked. Don't even get me started on the time my mom tried to pick, wash, and cook some fresh collard greens. A bit of advice - don't wash collard greens in your clothes washing machine.
Word verif - "undoomi" Probably an Italian word for the fate of my mom's washing machine.
Oops...."If it didn't come from a box or can, IT probably didn't get cooked."
Fortunately, they never tried to cook ME. LOL
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