| My wife makes this stuff. I am from the south, but I never cared much for mustard or collard greens. But the Chinese in Indonesia sure know how to prepare mustard greens. They pickle them in vinegar and salt, with a bit of sugar.This is a pork soup made with the mustard greens. This is how I've always eaten them pickled, but there are other recipes. Pickling them takes out the bitter taste. In the pork soup, it's something new and different, but it reminds me of down home cooking at the same time. Manado cooking uses papaya leaves in some dishes. Papaya leaves are extremely bitter. But I had some Manado cooking that substituted regular mustard greens for the papaya leaves. They sauteed them with pork or chicken. I think they used basil, hot pepper, lemon grass, maybe white pepper, and some other spices.I thought of red beans as a boring food to eat the way I ate them growing up in the south. But the Manado people put them in a big soup with pork, fresh nutmeg and other fresh spices, which makes them taste really, really good. If you get a chance to try real brenebon made with fresh spices, it's really good |