Who's eating Black Eyed Peas today?

[Joseph]

I love BEP (both the food and the group) but I know where Joseph is coming from. I feel the same way about, lima beans, lentils, mung beans. They feel like walpaper paste in my mouth.

Exactly. Give me haggis any day...

Joseph

[Laredo]

Ooooh, butterbeans. Yum.

Joseph: you've never had farm-fresh black eyed peas, have you?

Ira:
Dried black eyed peas double as cattle feed for good reason.
They're not really a bean type veggie. They're a legume, like peanuts.
(People in the deep south eat boiled green peanuts. I havd no idea why.
Like chicory in coffee, it is an abomination before the Lord ...)

Black eyed peas are best with snaps. What snaps are is some of the peas
that were pulled before they were fully mature, so that you just break off
the ends and pull off the strings, and break them in two or three pieces, pod and all.

(Most canned varieties that say "with snaps" actually have a few green
beans mixed into the vatful of dried black eyed peas. This, too, is an abomination ...)

Madjack's method is fine if dry peas are all you can find. If you're worried
about kosher, use a little liquid hickory or mesquite smoke flavor in your
cooking liquid -- or substitute a smoked turkey leg for the pork (yummy
and cheaper too).

Fresh peas, now, only need about a 10-minute simmering but boil the water before you add the peas.

[Joseph]

Joseph: you've never had farm-fresh black eyed peas, have you?

Fact is there aren't many beans I do like. I'd say I like Boston baked beans but the fact is, I like bacon & brown sugar - you can keep the beans. Black-eyed peas, Navy beans, pinto beans, mung beans and the rest? Tell ya what - feed 'em all to the cows and the hogs and I'll eat the beef & pork.

Joseph

[War Eagle]

I'm still eating blackeyed peas today ... and probably tomorrow. Does anyone like green tomatoe pickles in there peas? Has anyone ever heard of them? Kinda like chow chow but made with green tomatoes (duh), onions and peppers. Good stuff if they are made right.

[Ira]

Kinda like chow chow

It's amazing the factoids you encounter here.

I don't know how many of you have watched The Honeymooners, but there was an episode where Norton was busting Ralph's chops about the meal he was mooching at Ralph's apartment--and he asked for some Chow Chow.

I must have seen this episode 500 times, and I never knew what the heck Chow Chow was. And I STILL don't know what it is. And that show took place in Brooklyn.

Is that a brand-name for some type of relish?

[Joseph]

Does anyone like green tomatoe pickles in there peas? Has anyone ever heard of them? Kinda like chow chow but made with green tomatoes (duh), onions and peppers.

Now if you hold the peas, that sounds GOOD!

Ira, chow-chow is kinda like a vegetable pickle relish. Mom used to buy it (I don't remember the brand) and I remember it as having a lot of corn.

Joseph

[War Eagle]

Chow chow is not a brand, there are many brands of chow chow. It's also something that MANY grandmothers used to make and can at home. It's a pickle relish made from veggies, mainly corn but like my grandmother some people use green tomatoes. Not alot diff from hotdog relish (but I don't think you make hotdog relish from hotdogs), used as a condoment. I love it over blackeyed peas, that's about the only time I ever eat it, but man I love it.

[Laredo]

my mom made it with green tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and hot peppers.

I can't get it right to save my hide, and I can't find a store-bought one I like.

[War Eagle]

Laredo, my mom tried to make it once after my grandmother died. Not too good. Recently I have found a store bought brand that is so close to what my grandmother used to make that my mother can't even tell the diff. I can't think of the name right now but I have some at home and will post the name for you tomorrow.

[apratt]

Joseph: you've never had farm-fresh black eyed peas, have you?

Fact is there aren't many beans I do like. I'd say I like Boston baked beans but the fact is, I like bacon & brown sugar - you can keep the beans. Black-eyed peas, Navy beans, pinto beans, mung beans and the rest? Tell ya what - feed 'em all to the cows and the hogs and I'll eat the beef & pork.

Joseph

That is about how I am, only it is pinto beans that I like. I like them in chilli with lots of hamburgar. Also I gotten to where I like refried pinto beans but it has to be just right.... hot and chunky and not to dry.