The Collard Patch newly released story cookbook is all about collard greens growing, cooking, and eating and stories about growing up in Collard Country. If you think you don't like collards, you haven't tasted our collards. That's right, our collards are truly delicious prepared in very unique and creative ways. However, just imagine delicious food that is also wonderful for your heart and healthy for your body. Yes, many of our recipes are very healthy, indeed. They are low in fat, cholesterol, and sodium. How can you beat that good food that's good for you. Think of collards as appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, wraps, salads, and desserts. Yes, desserts. Open your mind . . . and your mouth . . . and dont forget the delightfully entertaining stories, preparation tips, growing tips, and all around excellent information about collards. You'll find it hard to put down even after enjoying one of the mouthwatering recipes. This book features the most popular collard greens recipe in the world with Heart Health Recipes, 288 big pages, and 214 remarkable recipes.
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There are lots of reasons to love collard greens, aside from their excellent flavor, their meltingly tender texture after cooking and their versatility in many different dishes. The fact is, they are one of the true super foods of the egetable world, offering prodigious amounts of natural ingredients that have been shown to support and improve eye health, among other things. Frequently eating collards can reduce the risk of developing age related macular degeneration and cataracts, for example. Naturally low in calories, salt and fat, they boast high levels of vitamins A, B, C, and are rich in calcium, beta carotene and fiber, among many other nutrients and superb characteristics. When you eat collards, you're getting your vitamins in Mother Nature's original package! But even so, best of all, they just plain taste good! In fact, The Collard Patch will expand your idea of what green cuisine can be, with recipes for everything from Collard Crepes for breakfast to Jamaican Collard Stew for supper and Apple Collard Raisin Pie for dessert. --Dorothy Reinhold, recipe developer, Cut n Clean Greens
If the title of The Collard Patch summons visions of warm, sunny days, a beautiful table set in the solarium or sun room of a charming country home a home situated in a verdant, pastoral setting with meandering varieties of vividly colored flowers, you're getting the picture. Simply add to this scene you and friends sitting at this table, while mixed aromas of hot corn bread, and the unmistakable fragrance of hot collard greens and a baked apple pie are wafting into the room. Your host, a busy cook is coming in and out of the room, setting one tempting, mouth watering entree after another on the table before you. As she scutters in and out the room, your eyes look beyond the tall French door style windows onto a patch of neatly planted rows of large, leafy rosettes of something favoring cabbage, but with much darker leaves. Oh, that's the collard patch over there. Your host now enters the room, and with flushed excitement takes her seat nearest the entryway to the kitchen as both she, coauthor Paul Elliott, you, and other friends await the blessings upon the food and the first palate pleasing delights of collard greens, cornbread and all the country trimmings. You have just met the delightful and ever gracious host, Mary Cheatham, and marketing genius and author Paul Elliott, co authors of The Collard Patch. A simple browse through the pages of this wonderfully warm and enchanting book will transport you, as it has me, to the scene or scenes like the one described above. The only difference being, that as you prepare the incredibly delicious recipes that grace the pages of this uniquely written story book of recipes, you become the host, setting your easily duplicated entrees before your own friends. Never mind the fact that you may not be serving your dishes in a country setting ...the foo --Carolyn Forche, Author, Colors Come From God Just Like Me
The Collard Patch is gorgeous. Not only is it attractive, I love the lay out and the themes. The stories make the recipes come alive. I love my cookbook. Now if I could just cook. --Beth Boswell Jacks, Author of Snippets
If the title of The Collard Patch summons visions of warm, sunny days, a beautiful table set in the solarium or sun room of a charming country home a home situated in a verdant, pastoral setting with meandering varieties of vividly colored flowers, you're getting the picture. Simply add to this scene you and friends sitting at this table, while mixed aromas of hot corn bread, and the unmistakable fragrance of hot collard greens and a baked apple pie are wafting into the room. Your host, a busy cook is coming in and out of the room, setting one tempting, mouth watering entree after another on the table before you. As she scutters in and out the room, your eyes look beyond the tall French door style windows onto a patch of neatly planted rows of large, leafy rosettes of something favoring cabbage, but with much darker leaves. Oh, that's the collard patch over there. Your host now enters the room, and with flushed excitement takes her seat nearest the entryway to the kitchen as both she, coauthor Paul Elliott, you, and other friends await the blessings upon the food and the first palate pleasing delights of collard greens, cornbread and all the country trimmings. You have just met the delightful and ever gracious host, Mary Cheatham, and marketing genius and author Paul Elliott, co authors of The Collard Patch. A simple browse through the pages of this wonderfully warm and enchanting book will transport you, as it has me, to the scene or scenes like the one described above. The only difference being, that as you prepare the incredibly delicious recipes that grace the pages of this uniquely written story book of recipes, you become the host, setting your easily duplicated entrees before your own friends. Never mind the fact that you may not be serving your dishes in a country setting ...the foo --Carolyn Forche, Author, Colors Come From God Just Like Me
The Collard Patch is gorgeous. Not only is it attractive, I love the lay out and the themes. The stories make the recipes come alive. I love my cookbook. Now if I could just cook. --Beth Boswell Jacks, Author of Snippets
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The Collard Greens Experience
Read The Collard Patch.
You will be . . . · Blessed by the memories of a callow youth in Collard Country · Informed about the process of growing, gathering, cooking, and eating collards · Enlightened by intriguing ways to cook cornbread
The Collard Patch is full of the gastronomic joy of Louisiana and Texas. Everywhere we go, people are trying to duplicate the pleasurable tastes we cook here. We are sharing La Cuisine Texianne™ with you in this book.
Cook these recipes.
You will enjoy your accomplishment. If you are not accustomed to eating collards, you will soon discover that you have missed incredibly tasty flavor. You will find yourself looking for collards every time you go to the grocery store.
Good luck shopping! The shelves labeled "collards" in the frozen food section are often empty. Try some of the lovely prepackaged fresh collards. If your store does not have these, demand them!
Eat this food—one of the world’s healthiest vegetables!
You will be satisfied by the work of your hands. Your body will benefit from vitamins A, B, and C; calcium; beta-carotene; and fiber in a marvelous natural food free of fat and low in carbohydrates. Collards and olive oil (so healthy!) are a blissful match.
Share your pleasure.
We are simultaneously publishing two cookbook readers: · The Collard Patch · Flavored with Love, Third Edition
Buy several of each. Keep some on hand to give as wedding gifts, holidays that slip up on you, and times when you simply want to say, "I love you."
Write MaryAndPaul@CollardLovers.com with your recipes!
"Send us your recipes, stories, and suggestions. You may be our guest in a future edition. Be sure to e-mail us and select your free gift. You will love what we have for you," say Cheatham and Elliott
Collard green cuisine—experience it!
If you think you don’t like collards, you haven’t tasted our collards!
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I spent my childhood on a farm between Taylorsville and Hot Coffee, Mississippi. Since I was in the fifth grade, I have known I'd become a writer. First I thought I'd be a poet. In the sixth grade, I decided I'd write novels, but life got in the way. At nineteen I became the wife of a great musician. After graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, we moved to Greenville, Mississippi, where I taught high school English. I've always been a person who makes my life fit around other people. I've enjoyed living in the shadows.
In Ruston, Louisiana, my husband taught at Louisiana Tech, and I gave birth to our delightful daughter Christie. In addition to helping care for dogs, cats, a horse, and more than a few cows, I taught part-time in a Christian school and enrolled at LA Tech, where I received my A. D. in nursing. I worked as a registered nurse at Lincoln General Hospital.
For decades I wrote and tossed my poems and short stories into the trash can. As a teacher, I emphasized composition to my students; some of them are talented writers now. I sponsored the literary magazine. When I was in nursing school, students throughout Louisiana elected me as the editor of the Louisiana Association of Student Nurses. I put together the state newsletter.
I heard a famous saying, "If you want to be a writer, go and live. Then you'll have something to write about." I did. When my husband became paralyzed with Guillain Barré syndrome, I quit working as a nurse to serve as his caregiver and patient advocate. During the busiest time of my life I wrote my first novel, Solomon's Porch, about a woman who takes care of her husband with GBS. Unlike most patients who recover somewhat after hours or days, he remained paralyzed five years before the Lord called him home, where I believe he now plays trumpet to the glory of God, even better than he did on earth.
Next I wrote a story cookbook, Flavored with Love. I used the penname of my imaginary cousin, Jane Riley. Then my sister gave me a pickup truck load of collard greens. Dr. Paul Elliott and I experimented with cooking collards and cornbread two years. The resulting story cookbook is The Collard Patch. These cookbooks opened the door to early morning television shows, where I did short cooking segments.
My daughter Christie requested that I write a devotional for her to read every day of the year. The resulting book was Do You Know How God Loves You? Since then I have spoken to several groups of women in churches about subjects found in this book, which contains intense Bible studies along with personal devotionals.
What became of my novels? I'm working on them. Watch for The Dream Bucket, a poignant romance told within the context of a family tragedy. The setting for this historical novel is a a rural area between the fictional town of Taylorsburg and the community of Hot Coffee in south Mississippi in 1909.
In Ruston, Louisiana, my husband taught at Louisiana Tech, and I gave birth to our delightful daughter Christie. In addition to helping care for dogs, cats, a horse, and more than a few cows, I taught part-time in a Christian school and enrolled at LA Tech, where I received my A. D. in nursing. I worked as a registered nurse at Lincoln General Hospital.
For decades I wrote and tossed my poems and short stories into the trash can. As a teacher, I emphasized composition to my students; some of them are talented writers now. I sponsored the literary magazine. When I was in nursing school, students throughout Louisiana elected me as the editor of the Louisiana Association of Student Nurses. I put together the state newsletter.
I heard a famous saying, "If you want to be a writer, go and live. Then you'll have something to write about." I did. When my husband became paralyzed with Guillain Barré syndrome, I quit working as a nurse to serve as his caregiver and patient advocate. During the busiest time of my life I wrote my first novel, Solomon's Porch, about a woman who takes care of her husband with GBS. Unlike most patients who recover somewhat after hours or days, he remained paralyzed five years before the Lord called him home, where I believe he now plays trumpet to the glory of God, even better than he did on earth.
Next I wrote a story cookbook, Flavored with Love. I used the penname of my imaginary cousin, Jane Riley. Then my sister gave me a pickup truck load of collard greens. Dr. Paul Elliott and I experimented with cooking collards and cornbread two years. The resulting story cookbook is The Collard Patch. These cookbooks opened the door to early morning television shows, where I did short cooking segments.
My daughter Christie requested that I write a devotional for her to read every day of the year. The resulting book was Do You Know How God Loves You? Since then I have spoken to several groups of women in churches about subjects found in this book, which contains intense Bible studies along with personal devotionals.
What became of my novels? I'm working on them. Watch for The Dream Bucket, a poignant romance told within the context of a family tragedy. The setting for this historical novel is a a rural area between the fictional town of Taylorsburg and the community of Hot Coffee in south Mississippi in 1909.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Entertaining and DELIGHTFUL!,
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The Collard Patch brought back a lot of memories, put a BIG smileon my face, and "taught this old dog a few new tricks!" Growing up on a tobacco farm in North Carolina, collards were a staple in my community. For 20 cents we could buy enough seeds to plant enough collards to last us all year. Yet, we only fixed them one or two ways... mainly boiled or fried. I only wish that we'd had this book when I was growing up. I never DREAMED of collards as a dessert :-) Since my whole family loves collards, my daughters, now starting families of their own, will get copies as Christmas presents. I highly recommend The Collard Patch to anyone who loves cooking good, healthy, down-home food. Willie Crawford - "The World's Leading Soul Food Expert." Author - "Soul Food Recipes Learned On A North Carolina Tobacco Farm" Author - "Git Off The Porch"
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Relaxing by The Collard Patch,
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This sunny and delightful book will guide you along to the collard patch.Not a rushed introduction to the collard green, but a nice long and friendly visit to the rearing up of seedlings and growing up with collard greens in the backyard.This is not just a recipe book but a book with lovely and fun farm stories,some Biblical quotes,recipe contributions from some of Mary Lou and Pauls many friends. This book features many nutritional facts,fun facts and historical facts on this vegetable.It induces the reader into a relaxed,pleasant smooth ride into the country. I read this book slowly,devouring a distinct southern flavor.It is written in a easy friendly style.A book being friendly ? You will quickly grasp the authors love for sharing recipes, stories of their friends meeting at the grocers or at church and exchanging recipes and suggestions for cooking collard greens in recipes they acquired from famous restaurants including appetizers and snacks,which was my favorite. This is a book you will want to spend one long,lovely summer afternoon with, maybe beside a brook or under a shady tree.Although I didn't read the book in such a sweetly pleasant environment,I felt as though I had. One suggestion I enjoyed and like to share is "don't discard the leftover liquid,instead make the easy soup", since the pot is already flavorful,you don't rinse and waste any precious flavors. One of my favorite recipes was The Glorious Collard recipe and The Collard Green Puffs. I am looking forward to baking Apple Collard Raisin Pie. This is a quality piece of work and I enjoyed every minute reading it.You'll love it for its healthy recipes,fun stories and joining the authors in a nostalgic look back with their childhood stories and pets. Highly recommended ! Read slowly and enjoy.
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Mary and Paul's book, "The Collard Book" is a feast of information, recipes, and stories. My personal favorite is the plain old steaming green "pot likker" with crumbled corn bread. Paul and Mary know southern cooking. Each recipe is filled with southern hospitality and love. Thanks for bringing back the memory of my grandmother serving me cups of steaming green pot likker with crumbled corn bread before dinner was ready. Warm memories, you will enjoy this book on many levels.
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