In a large pot, bring 3 quarts of water to a boil and add smoked meat, house seasoning, seasoned salt and hot sauce. Reduce heat to medium and cook for 1 hour.
Wash the collard greens thoroughly. Remove the stems that run down the center by holding the leaf in your left hand and stripping the leaf down with your right hand. The tender young leaves in the heart of the collards don't need to be stripped. Stack 6 to 8 leaves on top of one another, roll up, and slice into 1/2 to 1-ince thick slices. Place greens in pot with meat and add butter. Cook for 45 to 60 minutes, stirring occasionally. When done taste and adjust seasoning.
Serve with favorite dish as a side.
I've been catching on to the new genius idea this is cake pops or cake balls. I've always loved cupcakes but these little things are almost just as cute. My mom is amazing so she went out and bought this cake pop maker
So we made two types of cake pops our first time. One was in the cake pop maker and the other is the 'by hand' way.
Ok so for the ‘by hand’ batch we made caramel apple pops. We cooked a caramel cake and used apple juice
for half the water. Once the cake was
cooked and cooled we broke the cake up in a big bowl and added vanilla icing
mixed with caramel and apple juice. We
found that we didn’t need the entire can of icing, our cake balls turned out to
be a little too moist. Next time we’ll
add icing until it reaches the desired consistency. Once we formed all of the cake and icing into
the size of golf balls stuck them in the freezer to get them good and
cold.We melted white chocolate in a
makeshift double boiler (we’re going to need a real one if we start making a
lot of these.)We coated the cake balls,
set them in small muffin wrappers and placed them in the refrigerator to cool.Of course feel free to decorate.I think next time we’ll craft something so
they don’t touch anything while they cool they were a little messy from sitting
in the wrappers.
For the cake pop maker we made chocolate covered cherry cake
pops. So I took a devil’s food chocolate
cake mix added maraschino cherry juice to the batter in place of water. Then all you do is fill the holes in the maker
¾ full of batter, put a half of a maraschino cherry on top and close the maker,
they sit for 4-6 minutes and they’re ready to go. We popped them out of the maker, let them cool
and then coated them in melted milk or white chocolate. The cherry in the center was really good!
They took a long time to make. Next time I’m making them in the cake pop maker
and using an actual double boiler. I
think the process would go a lot faster.I’ll be making the chocolate covered cherry pops for my birthday next
week. Pictures and exact recipe to come!
