On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:34:38 -0400, "Earl of Warwich, Duke of
Cornwall, Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald P. Smithers III Esq. LLC,
STP. " wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:27:48 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


Careful, you'll become the eighteenth dwarf.

But, you'll be welcome.
"round hear, we draw the line at 2nd cuzins but I got lucky an'
married a yankee who likes what I like ('cept she doesnt like
greens). My yank in-laws would be ok if they'd just learn to cook.

What the hell is with people who don't like greens? My wife, bless her
soul, doesn't even like the smell of a batch of collards cooking in the
house. I keep telling her she's sick, but she says it's not her.

I've a friend here who gives me a bag of collards and green tomatoes every
time we golf. Naturally I make sure to golf with him at least once a week!

The REAL reason she doesn't like the smell of greens while they are
cooking is they actually give off a sulfur smell, which is a diluted
form of mustard gas. The longer you cook them, the more sulfur they
release.

There is a difference between sulphur released in cooking greens and
sulphur mustard as I understand it.

I could be wrong though.

While I have never tasted greens i like, Alton Brown says the reason
most people do not like greens are they are cooked too long. He
recommends you only cook them 45 min or until they are tender. I think
most southerners cook them till they are almost mush.

I have had them done right - just tender and they are good.

The problem is you really have to be experienced in cooking them right
though.