Today we look at the once luxury item, Hearts of Palm, a native to South Carolina, and love of the French. We also make a simple hearts of palm salad with tomatoes and avocado.
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Hearts of Palm are great! I use them in salads all the time. As kids in FL we used to eat them raw right from the woods …. Great episode! I am going to try your recipe tonight.
Oh wow! That’s great! How did you get them out of the husks?
WTF- is bitter melon ?
Good one! I’ll try and cover it soon.
Dan – Your recipe was excellent! Very tasty combed with the avacado, another of my fave’s!
When Cabbage palms are very young, they are easy to get to the center “Palm groth” it takes two children with a little determination to simply pull and wiggle the center groth to basically rip out the center of the palm. It is not an easy process, and not all of the heart will be removed.
What you do get is a tasty snack that more resembles a white carrot or celery stock then what you would buy at the stores today. As a child it was a fun little treat, but required quite a bit of work to get
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