I tried this recipe - just because I wanted to see if the taste would be different. I guess I am old school. I still like purchasing my fresh picked greens from the Farmers Market, or from the little ole man who has his lone truck filled with vegetables he picked from his own back yard. I don't have the same respect for 'canned foods'. The taste is just not the same. Some foods just can't be replaced with canned or frozen names. There is something about not only the time involved in picking greens, washing them and preparing them for the water, but it brings back the conversation and times that families used to spend together. I am not a very busy woman, but I do have my days. I still enjoy the love and effort that is put into the preparation part of cooking a meal for your family. In my household, we still come to the table at the same time every night to have dinner, share conversation, jokes, laughs and watch the love in each other's eyes. We still play board games and read the "funny papers" together after church on Sundays. I still wear my apron and pad around in my houseshoes while setting the table. I guess I'm just living in the past.

Well, bless your heart.

No reason to excuse yourself..I belong to Old School, methods. I will try this recipe w/ fresh greens.. dejavu.
Good Old Days.. Unreplaceable..

MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Paula, and Family/Friends

Pinto beans, collard greens and Polish Sausage. Cook chopped greens, separate, 20 min. Heat beans, brown slices of polish sausage. Combine all three and serve with cornbread and hot sauce. Oh Man!

I have not prepared this recipe..but I have a wonderful neighbor who grows mustard greens and I am going to try it with potatoes... and I am going to say that although in use fresh greens, I would hardly have the time to go out and buy fresh ones... but for the kindness of neighbors, I have them..having conversations, reading the funny paper, laughing around the table...still liking the preparation part of putting a meal together because it shows the love ... We can't assume that the recipe placed here by this gal was prepared without love because the time was not had to get to the market to get fresh items... And everyone, of course, is entitled to an opinion... but lacking respect for the ingredients in a recipe because they are not fresh is making an inverse assumption that because it was not made with fresh ingredients, it was not made with love .. that is not necessarily then truth..and probably not then truth.. I am glad you are not too busy to do as you can for your family... to prepare from scratch is a luxury some can't afford.. We all know the taste is not the same.... But the love cannot be judged from the ingredients.. Their table may be full of the same laughter and love that yours is. If so, I applaud the women for making sure that her family is taken care of emotionally.. And for some of us that means using less than fresh off the farm ingredients. Some women can't have the time that you may have to spare to do cooking from scratch.. just because they do not have the time for shopping for fresh, does not mean that this women is less of a family women that another. She may very well be using the time she saves from cooking from scratch to provide for her all of the things that you think you are giving better to your family because you chose fresh ingredients. Bless this women for trying to make the best of whatever she can give her family. Walk a few days in her shoes, and show gratitude for all that you have. This women who sent in this recipe should be most of all proud that she decided that the time she could save using this recipe by using as is vs from scratch ingredients would be better spent giving her family what you have the luxury of doing at, for the most part, per your own comments, your leisure.