Collards - A Witch's View - Neuse River Witch

I find myself in a conundrum. I worry about people I see online as well as friends and family. I see their food choices and think, you're killing yourself. I have a cousin who has a morbidly obese spouse and children who are obese, yet I see shares of food that are just killing them. Literally.

So what do you do? In this day and age, we cannot tell a fat person they are hurting themselves without it being called body shaming. I'm not sure what the right answer is. On one hand I want to help them and on the other, I don't want to hurt their feelings or be called a bully. So instead, I'll just share one of my favorite recipes for Collards with you.

I get my collards in bunches on the stalks. Collards hold sand like you would not believe so you're going to want to wash them really well.

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Start by cutting the stalks off then ends and discard.

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Use a paring knife to remove the stems from the center of the leaf.

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I remove them like so.

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Next put them in a sink full of water and wash them really well. The sand should sink to the bottom.

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Collards are always better after they have been exposed to at least one frost. To ensure that I can cut the bitterness from them I put them in a bag and poss them in the freezer for a couple of hours.