Thought I would clarify...we don't actually eat the smoked hog jowls, we use it to season the peas and in my case also the rutabagas. I don't know where exactly the hog jowls come from, but it seems they would look similar to bacon if you sliced it. Paula, the rutabagas, (to me) are pretty mild tasting, similar to a turnip root. I saw some recipes where you could mix them with mashed potatoes or cook them with onions then mash them, even cooked with carrots with brown sugar added, maybe cinnamon too, I can't remember. Hubby chopped them and I just boiled them with a little salt and jowl. I didn't mash them. May try a different way sometime. I think the best part was the cornbread...I've had a few servings of left over cornbread and buttermilk. I think there is one serving left...ha.
Have a great day,
Sheila
I just looked up hog jowls on Google and it says the fat cheeks of a hog. I like my rutabagas like you cook them. I used to mash them up because my ex used to like them that way because that was the way his mother cooked them. Now I cook them like my mother used to cook them and like I was used to eating them LOL.
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Thanks for the explaination. I probably would like that. The hog jowls reminds me of the hispanics around here make tamales out of hogs head. I love tamales and try not the think about what they may be made of.
ReplyDeleteYep it is them hog jaws, or rather Hog cheeks. I ain't crazy about them. But they are like bacon.
ReplyDeleteOk for seasoning, problem, I don't like any of that stuff. I am not a southerner Must be the problem. I have a faint memory of my mom cooking parsnips and I think I did once. rolled then in flour and split them in strips and fried them. The kids wanted to know what they were so I said "a new kind of French fries". Rutabagas, I do not remember a time when I had them.
ReplyDeleteHi,well I dump the left overs and we had hambugers and cheese burgers tonight,lol. I just know the blackeyed peas and hog jowl will make me healthy and the collards with make me wealthy through out the year, lol. Love you, mom
ReplyDeleteLove the winter layout! Enjoy your week.
ReplyDeleteI wish you had every flake of snow that we have and the cold that goes with it. I want you to know thaT YOU ARE REALLY SUCCESSFUL IN MAKING SNOW IN NE> LOL I just wish you were not quite so successful. Just kidding, Sheila, however being nearly waist deep in snow, I must say I can not imagine anyone wanting snow. One exception, I did when I was a kid.
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