re: Favorite southern side dish?

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I'm a non-Southerner. Here's how I fix collards: Dice up some sweet onions and toss them along with some dry mustard into some chicken broth and start simmering. Meanwhile, clean, de-stem and chop up the greens. When about halfway through this process, toss some smoked pork shoulder meat into the pot (every time I smoke a pork shoulder, I reserve some of the meat, put individual portions into baggies and freeze just for this purpose). After all the greens are chopped up toss them into the pot and stir around until they just wilt down. Serve them up doused with Red Devil hot sauce. I see okra is high on the list. I have been just tossing the one to two pods a day I've been picking into pickle juice, and having pickled okra every now and then, but now that it is heating up, the okra is coming in pretty good, so it might be time to fry up a batch.

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