You Ate What...?

I've been planning this for about a month, but it took a couple of weeks to get the ingredients and another couple of weeks to actually make it. I was nervous. My family is from the Texas/Oklahoma/New Mexico area and we never ate "traditional Southern cooking" in the least. We ate hamburgers, New Mexican food, spaghetti smothered in sauce, salad, canned soup, roast, stew, pizza, etc. So, I didn't know if I would make Southern food well or that I would like it. Weird thing we ate: Greens with ham hocks It was extremely easy to make and took a really long time to cook, but it was decent. There were 6 ingredients: water, ham hocks, salt, freeze dried garlic, turnip greens, and tatsoi. I don't think we'll use tatsoi again. There's just not enough leaf on them. The turnip greens were huge and worked well. I should have used only one ham hock and more greens, but know I know. The ham hocks provided a good amount of fat which helped quite a bit, I think. There...

After being sick for a couple of weeks and Thanksgiving passing, we finally started getting into our food co-op stuff. We had bought buffalo roast, winesap apples, a bunch of greens, ham hocks, some wheat berries, sandwich meat, and some cheeses. I think it was Thursday I went shopping at the grocery store to round out the rest of my weeks groceries. Now, we've tried before probably about half of the stuff we just bought, but I wanted to try some new meals, or at least some new ways of cooking. Weird thing we ate: Buffalo pot roast with mashed potatoes We didn't actually eat it on Sunday, but this has been a "traditional Sunday dinner" thing, except for the buffalo part. We live in Oklahoma and people raise buffalo like they do cattle, just not as many. We've found ground buffalo at Walmart before, but that's for another discussion. I've never made a pot roast with veggies and stuff cooked in the roast. Normally I just make it in the oven and with a lar...