Black eyed peas

[Tad]

Who here eats black eyed peas on new years day for good luck?

new years day here lunch is fried pork chops w/gravy, spinach, and black eyed peas with corn bread.

[bubba]

Great Southern custom followed in our families house religiously!Happy New Year!

[steve 9atx]

Tad

Black-eyed peas are indispensable, but don't forget the cabbage too.

Steve

[Tad]

never done cabbage for new years day, although cooked with new potatoes and pork ribs (also done with kraut) is a great dish!

[bubba]

Can't forget chopped onions!

[Tad]

fried pork chops, make sure you season your flour well, double dip in milk and flower.

cornbread,sweet for me, some folks like it with cracklins..you know who you is!!

spinach, top dressed with hard fried bits of bacon, onion, and a chopped boiled egg.

Black eyes cooked with onions and bacon and seasoned up with pepper,garlic,salt... NO JALEPENOS!! (thats sacrilege)

[metalfan]

Of course we eat them! My version of Hoppin' John is very hot and spicy: blackeyes with tomatoes and jalapenos (vegetarian of course no chicken broth or seasoning meat). I had it for lunch today with a side of Palak Paneer (Indian cheese in spiced creamed spinach), after I did my 6 mile run and stashed all the potted plants in the greenhouse in prep for the big freeze the next 3 nights.

[Dave-Vero]

The assorted cow, field and crowder peas that used to be popular in the South seem to be disappearing.  It looks like heirloom seeds are available, and the whole bunch of varieties belong to Vigna unguiculata, of African origin.  Which reminds me that a lot of African legumes have gone wild in the South.

[steve 9atx]

Tad

Peas for luck, cabbage for MONEY.  One of my only two loosely-held supertitions.

Steve

[Tad]

ahhh we substitute spinach and collards for the cabbage.

[steve 9atx]

Ok, I'll except the collard greens (although I prefer mustard greens).  But no jalapenos?  Sacrelige indeed.  Don't worry about the kids, you can force them to eat it.  If if doesn't have a smoky burn on the back of your throat, you didn't do it right.

For me the essentials besides peas are 1.) some kind of smoked pork, 2.) at least one can of HOT Rotel tomatoes with habeneros, 3.) at least two large jalapenos or serranos, 4.) Mexican oregano, 5.) epazote, 6.) seasoning (Tony Chacheries, Coach's Low Country or eq.), almost forgot 7.) lots of onions and garlic!

I'm watching mine on it's third hour of simmerin'.  As soon as the cornbread's ready, it's time to eat.

Steve

[Tad]

Ro-tel, used to be canned in Donna Tx by the Taoromina family! which is like a mile from here.

[Al in Kona]

Hey I'll eat most anything for the Holidays, preferably it's hot 'n spicy (as Gina also prefers).  Nice to know those hot chiles are super nutritious too. We often make our own salsas.  We are pretty international in what we eat here but there's enough Mexican influence in our family to sometime during the Christmas-New Years holidays to crave tamales and bunuelos to make it complete.  In Hawaii one popular New Years food is mochi.  It's made from punding rice, origin is Japanese but everyone pretty much has adopted it as being Hawaiian.  There's even mochi ice cream.

[metalfan]

I made a big batch of Green Corn Tamales, some red beans and rice and a brisquit for a party we had last Friday. Of course the Tamales were veggie but the beans and meat I skipped. There was other stuff though so I didn't suffer!

[junglegalfla]

Just got home from a friend's house. We had black eyed peas & collard greens slow cooked w/ ham hock & jalapeno corn bread & pork tenderloin on the grill. mmm, mmm mmmm. Hope those peas bring me luck this year!

*hick* buzzed from red wine and dreading going back to work after 12 days

[JakeK]

No black eyed peas here, but it's surprising to see almost everyone eats pig products. My great-grandmother would only make schnitzel or pork chops on New Years, never any poultry since chickens scratch backwards and pigs root with their noses forward.

[steve 9atx]

Tad

How far are you from Falfurrias?  If you haven't tried it, you need to get your hands on some of their butter.  Once I discovered it, it's the only kind that crosses my lips.  Slathered it on the cornbread this evening.

Steve

[palmmermaid]

We always had black-eyed peas with rice (aka hoppin john), collard greens with ham hocks, corn bread (not sweet), and sweet tea.  We put pepper sauce on our greens and hoppin john.  Our version of pepper sauce was a jar full of hot peppers Daddy grew covered in whie vinegar.  You just keep adding more vinegar until the next season when more peppers would be ready.  I don't know what kind of peppers they were - small and hot!  Daddy always said you needed to be real mad when you planted peppers to make sure they would be hot!

[Tad]

kitty we make the same vinegar sauce out of chile pequins which are a little tiny pepper a lil bigger than say a pepper corn, the mockingbirds "seed" them every where.

[Al in Kona]

Yeah Tad those Chile piquin tho tiny are sure hot.  Mostly we use the Serrano chile peppers for salsas, etc.  I planted a Habanero chile last year and it supplied us with plenty chiles (VERY hot) so we dehydrated many and then coarsely ground them and use them to flavor different foods or meats.  There are so many different varieties of chile peppers.  I once heard but don't recall now but it made an impression on me at the time.  Anybody know?  The local Hawaiians make a chile pepper water that many of them use to sprinkle on their food (even on their rice).

[Jeff Searle]

Tad,

    Never started that tradition. But, send a plate over the next time, because that's my kind of food.

Jeff

[Tad]

Jeff, you need to come on back this direction, tour the camp and see it all. I promise better accomodations in Mexico than y'all got last time,

[osideterry]

Does this tradition double as a supposed hangover cure, like Menudo?

Either way, gotta love pork!

[Tad]

No hangover cure, I am not a fan of menudo, nor tripas or hagis, fried chicken gizzards are about as close as me and organs get cuisine wise!

[DoomsDave]

Got me some BE Peas (NOT the rock band) and gonna cook 'em up, based on the recipes herein.  LOTS of garlic.  Pepper and beer on the side . . . . .

dave

[calyptrocalyx&licuala freck]

And I was thinking about the Band on opening the

thread, :laugh:  :laugh: , I love any peas there good for you.

Regards Mikey.