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  Poke Salad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Note: Poke has poisonous parts and if gathered and prepared incorrectly can be poisonous.
I spotted the patch of Poke Salad last year and remembered where it was.
The plant in the picture is poke, but the plant is much too old to eat.
www.geocities.com /KindlyRat/PokeSalad.html   (292 words)

  
  Poke salad - Food & Drink - Recipes24 Net - recipes, cooking, cookbooks and more
Poke salet are greens made from pokeweed that was a staple of Southern U.S. cuisine.
It is often mispronounced as "poke salad." Young pokeweed leaves can be boiled twice to remove the toxin, discarding the water after the first boiling.
Campaigns by doctors against Poke salet in the mid and late 20th century led to a decline of its use in the U.S. South, though it is still occasionally available commercially.
www.recipes24.net /encyclopedia/p/poke_salad.html   (147 words)

  
 Poke Salad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
I always thought it was called poke salad because it has the appearance of salad greens and when you pick the leaves, you put them in a poke (that is a paper sack for you non-southerners).
Another way to cook poke salad is to put the boiled and rinsed leaves in a big skillet with some bacon drippings, an egg or two, a half cup (or more) of chopped onion, and then scramble it all together.
In addition to poke salad's economy and taste, it is being studied by researchers for use in treatments of autoimmune diseases including AIDS and rheumatoid arthritis.
ctasher.home.insightbb.com /documents/pokesalad.htm   (702 words)

  
 SouthernAngel's Poke Salet: The Versatile Veggie
I always thought it was called poke salad because it has the appearance of salad greens and when you pick the leaves, you put them in a poke (that is a paper sack for you non-Southerners).
Another way to cook poke salet is to put the boiled and rinsed leaves in a big skillet with some bacon drippings, an egg or two, a half cup (or more) of chopped onion, and then scramble it all together.
Poke salet has the potential to be very versatile; a person from California might want to make a poke salet quiche (but don't tell Aunt Ruth, she'd have a fit).
www.southernangel.com /food/pokesala.html   (768 words)

  
 The Annual Poke Salad Festival Association
The Poke Salad Festival will continue to feature family favorites such as the Poke Salad Parade with marching bands, dance lines, fire trucks, car clubs, El Karubah’s 40/8 train, horses, and clowns, at 10:00 AM through the streets of Blanchard, Saturday May 12th.
The Poke Salad Treasure Hunt is sponsored by Tim’s Paint and Collision, Inc., and American Dust Control Inc., and has a total prize value of $1,500.00 with business cards from these sponsors and purchase of a Poke Salad T-shirt.
The Poke Salad Festival Association has worked with State Representative, Jim Morris to obtain a “Home of Hal Sutton” road sign for Blanchard, which will be dedicated during the Festival Opening Announcements.
pokesaladfestival.com   (554 words)

  
 Poke: Old Medicinal Uses
Poke, on the other hand, is a weed -- the problem is not having too little of it, but too much.
When I was using poke to treat Lyme disease a number of years ago, I found that after taking 10 drops per day for several weeks, I started feeling unclear, spacy and disconnected, as if I weren't really in my body.
Poke root can also be made into an oil simply by substituting oil for alcohol.
www.herbalremediesinfo.com /poke.html   (1358 words)

  
 Poke salad - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Poke salad is a salad made from pokeweed that was a staple of Southern U.S. cuisine.
Campaigns by doctors against Poke salad in the mid and late 20th century led to a decline of its use in the U.S. South, though it is still occasionally available commercially.
The lingering cultural significance of Poke salad can be seen in the recording of the song Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White.
www.music.us /education/P/Poke-salad.htm   (336 words)

  
 Monster Munching: Poke Here, Poke There
Poke (pronounced poh-kay) is as indigenous to Hawaii as the coconuts and the world-class beaches.
Poke was a high on the list of priorities, but eating it where locals like Kirk would eat it was even more important to me than swimming in the most secluded beaches or snorkeling the bluest lagoons.
The octopus poke was quite a bit cheaper than the ahi poke, at least by poundage...compound that with the fact that we only asked for just a small helping.
elmomonster.blogspot.com /2006/11/poke-here-poke-there.html   (2591 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Pokeweed
The pokeweeds, also known as poke, pokeberry or pokeroot, comprise the genus Phytolacca, perennial plants native to North America, South America, East Asia and New Zealand.
For many decades, Poke salad was a staple of Southern U.S. cuisine, but its use declined in the mid and late 20th century as campaigns by doctors caused it to become common knowledge in the U.S. South that Pokeweed remained toxic even after being boiled.
The lingering cultural significance of Poke salad can be seen in the recording of the song Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White, famously covered by Elvis Presley.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Pokeweed   (427 words)

  
 Pokeweed
Poke is derived from the Algonquian Indian word "pakon" or "puccoon," referring to a dye plant used for staining.
It is sometimes spelled polk and the leaves were reportedly worn by enthusiastic supporters during the campaign of James K. Polk, 11th president of the United States.
In 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a popular song on the radio was "Poke Salad Annie." The song depicted a poor southern girl who picked a wild plant called pokeweed for a vegetable.
waynesword.palomar.edu /ecoph24.htm   (1043 words)

  
 Poke Salad Restaurants
Poke Salad Mary's Food/Restaurant venue is Outdoors Food/Restaurant venue is Wheelchair Accessible...
Poke salad annie Floridata: Phytolacca americana Common Names: pokeweed, poke, poke salad, scoke South probably have heard of this plant from the 1969 Tony Joe White hit song, "Poke Salat Annie".
Poke Salad is art, formed from pen, paper, and a heart that embraces what is...
www.eatingoutrestaurants.com /recipes/Poke-Salad.html   (2850 words)

  
 www.dirtdoctor.com :: View topic - Poke
Poke is full of vitamins and trace minerals and was considered a "spring tonic" by residents of the South where it grows prolifically.
When pioneers had no more stored vegetables and were tired of their dried and canned goods all winter, poke salad was a welcome treat in Spring.
Then she draioned the poke and poured the poke into the pan with the onions and then she broke eggs into it and let the eggs cook till done.
www.dirtdoctor.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1220&view=previous   (966 words)

  
 Texas Food----Okra...etc.
Polk Salad is the greens from a root vegetable similar to a turnip.
Poke Salad is the leaves of the Poke weed.
Poke Salad is starting to sound like one of those impenetrable Texas Traditions like Billy Bathing.
www.durangotexas.com /dustytrails/texasfood.htm   (1640 words)

  
 Poke Salad Annie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
DixieDining.com The Newspaper Column Legendary poke salad or pokeweed is said to be the best known and most widely consumed wild vegetable in America and Europe.
Poke Salad Annie Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) is a robust perennial potherb native to the eastern United States.
Poke Salad Annie - Russell's Ramblings I was working inthe yard this morning when I found this praying mantisin the poke weed, made famous by Elvis Presley's ":Polk Salad Annie":.
www.arts-resource.com /directory/annie/poke-salad-annie.html   (492 words)

  
 ~*~Elvis ~Poke Salat Annie~*~
Cause her mama was a working' on the chain gang...
"Poke salad" is made from a common edible weed, "Pokeweed".
Pick and wash poke salad, bring to a rapid boil for 20 minutes.
www.jbreck.com /elvispokesaladannie05.html   (272 words)

  
 Times Community Newspapers - Pretty poisonous poke
Poke thrives in disturbed soil, such as a newly dug entrance to a groundhog burrow.
Poke juice is used as a base for fabric dyes.
Poke salad is an unfortunate name because a salad made from raw poke would be deadly poisonous to eat.
www.timescommunity.com /site/tab3.cfm?newsid=15213632&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506079&rfi=6   (784 words)

  
 Poke Salad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Poke Salot Festival ó Held in the spring, the festival is named in honor of pop singer Tony Joe White, a native of Oak Grove who had a national hit record with a song called "Poke Salad Annie." It is...
Ahi Poke Basic Submitted by: Josh Chan This is a standard raw tuna (poke) salad served in most Hawaiian homes.
Yield: 4 servings Ahi Poke This is a standard raw tuna (poke) salad served in most Hawaiian homes.
www.saladm.com /pokesalad   (1067 words)

  
 The Winchester Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Milburn offered her guests a taste of poke, cooked with collard, mustard and turnip greens, along with skillet-cooked cornbread, pinto beans, ham and potatoes.
Poke weed, Phytolacca americana, is also known as poke salad, pokeberry, scoke, and pigeonberry, according to sources on the Internet.
Poke plants grow wild in area fields and are considered a weed by some and a delicacy to others.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/060524/Life_poke.asp   (1045 words)

  
 Jackson Free Press | [Food] Poke Salad Bessie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Euell Gibbons lauds poke as “probably the best-known and most widely-used wild vegetable in America." In Stalking the Wild Asparagus," Gibbons writes that the Indian tribes eagerly sought it, and early explorers were unstinting in their praise of “this succulent potherb.”
Use poke much as you would spinach; Gibbons has a poke-salad dip in his book, and Bessie used to put it in scrambled eggs.
She always cooked with bacon drippings, using plenty of salt (as somewhat of a talisman against poison of any kind, I suspect, since she used to sprinkle salt around her garden to keep the snakes out, too), and while that sounds like a recipe for a stroke, she's still nuking snakes up in Calhoun County.
www.jacksonfreepress.com /print.php?id=6313_0_8_0   (601 words)

  
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That's why they are spearheading the Tennessee Polk Salad Association, a group formed and based in Harriman to educate the public about the safe and proper method of preparing the leafy wild plant as a nutritious food source.
Poke - or pokeweed - is a tall, berry-bearing annual that grows in Tennessee and other southern states.
Polk salad samples were available during the May 8 Cruisin', and the earlier date will give the association two opportunities to sell prepared poke dishes at the car shows.
roanecounty.com /articles/2004/07/26/news/news01.txt   (557 words)

  
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 It’s Like Buying a Pig in a Poke.
You had hors d'oeuvre at one house, salad at another, main course at a third, and desert at the last.
I'm guessin' you are young, or not Southern or both (nothin' wrong with that you understand) or you'd know that a "poke" is a bag or sack that you fill up by "poking" things in it.
Same origin as "poke salad" which is a salad of wild greens, gathered in the fields and put/"poked" in a bag to bring home.
www.gailsgalley.com /gg2_12.html   (681 words)

  
 Tennessee Polk Salad Association
When the poke is tender, drain off the water it was cooked in and cover it with cold water.
Note: Polk Salad is a spinach type vegetable that grows wild in the woods.
Heat the bacon fat in a skillet, add onions, the Polk salad, and the eggs, and saut‚ until eggs are done.
www.rockytopgen.com /polksalad/recipes.html   (393 words)

  
 Poke salad, kaaza - SouthernAngel's Poke Salet: The Versatile Veggie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Poke salad, kaaza - SouthernAngel's Poke Salet: The Versatile Veggie
One of the things that my granny made for us was poke salad.
Preparing poke salad outside of Marshall, Texas in the 1930s The result is known as poke salit, or Poke salad, and is occasionally available
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In 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a popular song on the radio was "Poke Salad Annie." The song depicted a poor southern girl who
www.infobooker.com /p/poke-salad-annie.html   (128 words)

  
 Information Page
Poke Sallet is the cooked young shoots of the pokeweed plant, Phytolacca decandra, which is a member of the pink family.
This perennial plant grows wild in the eastern States and may reach a height of 8-10 feet.
Poke sallet may now be more of a dish of tradition than anything else.
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 Poke Salad
This forum has made me go back in time and think about some of the stuff we used to eat when I was young.
She would go out in the yard, gather it, wash it real good, and then saute it in a pan with butter and onions.
By the way, did I mention that she harvested her poke salad in our backyard in Brooklyn NY, LOL.
www.afrigeneas.com /forum-food/index.cgi?noframes;read=26   (134 words)

  
 Ahi Poke Basic - Allrecipes
"This is a standard raw tuna (poke) salad served in most Hawaiian homes.
Although unconventional, it is sure to please the more adventurous seafood lovers.
I served with sticky rice, a cucumber salad, and sake, and my boyfriend and I enjoyed a wonderful little Japanese dinner at home.
allrecipes.com /Recipe/Ahi-Poke-Basic/Detail.aspx   (313 words)

  
 poke salad recipe | southern cooking recipes
Pick and wash poke salad, bring to a rapid boil for 20 minutes.
Bring to a rapid boil, starting with cold water, for a second boil for 20 minutes.
Serve and garnish with hard boiled egg and bacon.
www.thatsmyhome.com /mainstreet/beans/poke-salad.htm   (112 words)

  
 Poke Salad Mary's: Food & Restaurants: Silver Dollar City
Poke Salad Mary's: Food and Restaurants: Silver Dollar City
Pa Hatfield's other daughter, Mary, was not the marksmen that her sister Annie was, so her job was to find and pick wild greens to balance out the diet of the Hatfield family.
Most any day you will find Mary out looking for the most tender lambsquarter, dock, dandelions and poke shoots to make her famous salads and greens which she will put on almost anything you can imagine.
www.bransonsilverdollarcity.com /food-restaurants/detail.aspx?AttractionID=499   (195 words)

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