KISRA Cooking Series
The cooking series at KISRA started off with lots of fun
and excitement. Our menu included
collard greens, honey crunch chicken and creamy applesauce pudding.
What I think was most exciting was being able to prepare
the most delicious collard greens with ham seasoning (which is not ham but a vegetarian-based
product that tastes like ham), by cooking the collard greens in this ham based
seasoning, and then after the greens were cooked and draining off the liquid,
adding a little bit of olive oil. Those
who wanted to add a little salt and pepper could, but the truth is the salt and
pepper was not needed. The collard
greens were an absolute hit!
I also want to always tell the truth, and I have to say
this was my first time in all of my life to ever eat collard greens and they
were fabulous. One of the reasons I
never ate collard greens is because according to tradition from a soul food
perspective, they are always cooked in a ham hock, bacon grease or many pieces
of bacon. For that reason I have always
avoided tasting the vegetable. I believe
the same thing has been true for green beans, mustard greens, turnip greens and
kale, and while they are very healthy vegetables – dark green by nature and so
good for us – because of their accepted cooking method, I’ve always steered
clear. Well, that belief is over because
we introduced the way to make them in a healthy fashion.
Please try them – by the way the Ham Seasoning is
available at the Shape Shop – and if you’re reading this and are from outside
of Charleston – ham seasoning can be shipped directly to you. It is just an incredible product. Our chicken bouillon is quite dynamite too.
The honey crunch chicken, which is in the Lean and Luscious cookbook, is not only
easy to make but it calls for four ingredients and everyone in the cooking
class loved the end result. Our creamy
applesauce pudding dessert was equally stupendous and we made that first so it
could be refrigerated and add that cold finishing touch to a perfectly
delightful meal.
We’re doing great things with our Lean and Luscious recipes and the next cooking series class is Monday,
March 9 from 6-8:00 p.m. We’re going to
have an equally exciting meal and we’ll tell you about it in next week’s
post. If you have gotten your copy of
Lean and Luscious, it’s available on Amazon.com, the Shape Shop, Taylor Books, and
Kroger at Ashton Place – so the resources are many. Stop in and get your copy and the recipes
will speak for themselves.
Thanks for reading!
Millie Snyder
