“Greens” refers to the leafy part. You can also get turnip greens, mustard greens, dandelion greens, etc.
Because “greens” is the general term for plant leaves we eat such as spinach, chard, kale or the leaves of other vegetable plants like carrots. Some people just call them collards.
Carrot tops/greens are so freaking good. I blend it into a pesto and put it on grilled cheese sandwiches. Fibrous as hell, like eating ground up rope, but OMG it’s so good. Especially a little caramelized onion and some apple on there… I’m so hungry
That’s interesting! I noticed organic carrots often come with them and others don’t, and had heard they’re edible but had no idea what to do with them.
They’re really, really good. But don’t make the mistake of eating parsnip tops! If you Google it some of the results say edible, some say poison. I err on the side of caution there. Lol. But carrot tops are 100% amazing, if you don’t mind the stringiness.
Makes sense… parsnips are pretty weird.
In a similar vein, I prefer celery leaves over the stalks. They have a better flavor imo and they don’t feel like your chewing on stringy water.
I like to cut celery super thin and sautee it, which fixes the stringiness, cause the fibers are so short. Great flavor if you get enough of it in to taste it lol
Rainbow shard is not collards. You may be conflating the two. Collards are very related to kale. That same species, Brassica oleracea, gives us the cultivars cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.
well if it births cauliflower how come you don’t see white collards? Or any other color?
omg dude you can’t just ask about white collards
alternate joke: I guess you could say it’s a white collard crime?
They’re not that green in color. Some are almost blue-black.
Without checking the etymology, I’d guess it comes from German, where ‘kohl’ is a word meaning leaf, as in coleslaw or kohlrabi.
So collard greens would just be leafy greens.
Collards are a specific variety of brassicacea like cauliflower, broccoli, etc. Not a generic term.
I never said it was a generic term. Cabbage for coleslaw, kohlrabi etc are all brassicas.
I gotcha, I just misunderstood the intention of your comment! My bad lol
Collard greens are in the brassica family, and the coll / caul / cole syllable is often used for those (cauliflower, cole slaw).
Don’t know, but speaking collards.
