Who's eating Black Eyed Peas today?

[oklahomajewel]

oh NO!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't get mine yesterday --- I'm doomed!!! I won't get rich this year !!!!

Isn't that what the black eyed peas represent... coins or money?

Send some to me !!! money, not blackeyed peas.....

haha Julie

[Ira]

I never had them--are they easy to make, and do you buy them fresh?

[madjack]

I never had them--are they easy to make, and do you buy them fresh?

...buy 'em dried in the dried bean section of the super market...cover with water and let stand an hour...add onion/garlic and other seasonings along with a ham hock or sausage and simmer for an hour or so...serve over rice...add a pone of corn bread and dig in...mmm...mmm...mmm
madjack

[Ira]

I'll definitely try this:

After the holidays, eating the same old traditional stuff, I'd like to try something different. I seem to remember that you can buy a small ham hock by itself, probably for purposes like this.

[Micro469]

I'll definitely try this:

After the holidays, eating the same old traditional stuff, I'd like to try something different. I seem to remember that you can buy a small ham hock by itself, probably for purposes like this.

You??? Eating HAM?????

[Juneaudave]

I cook them like Madjack except I like to use a chunk of salt pork cut into slices in my black eyed peas.

[Ira]

You??? Eating HAM?????

Surely you jest.

Only MUSLIMS don't eat pork.

Most Jews eat Chinese food and pork every other day, although we lie about it at temple.

[Joseph]

I'll definitely try this.

If you like eating mud, you'll love black-eyed peas.

Despite my mom's being Irish, she insists we have to eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for luck - I think that's really more of a German thing. Anyway, I had a couple of Nathan's hot dogs with kraut, mustard & pickle relish.

Joseph

[Ira]

Now I definitely gotta try them--how can they taste like mud with so many people raving about them?

BUT...

I'll reserve judgment until I make them and try for myself, and tell the truth on what I think.

This country is full of some weird tastebuds, mine being pretty weird themselves. But I'll tell you one thing:

I had my first real cornbread about a year ago, when a real BBQ joint opened near me.

And man oh man...

What have I been MISSING all of these years!? That stuff is to DIE for!

[madjack]

Joseph...I am sorry that you have never had "good" black eyed peas...cooked properly they are as good tasting as any pea-beans...I have never seen any that tasted or resembled mud....
madjack

black-eyed peas---health
greens/cabbage---wealth
cornbread---------happiness

at least that is what my mother always said

[rbeemer]

MadJack I thought the saying went like this:

1st beer = health
2nd beer = wealth
3rd beer = happ...who cares just get me another beer

[madjack]

Rick, my Mom may have been telling me a story, since I have been eating these three things on New Years Day all of my life and presently find myself broke, broke down and bummed...
madjack

p.s....I think you have the beer thing confused with how good looking a woman is in a dark bar......MJ

1to3 beers...coyote ugly
4to6 beers...pug ugly
7to9 beers...looking MUCH better
10to12 beers...I'll rob banks for ya darlin', just come home with me to-nite

[rbeemer]

MJ,

hmmmmmm
I always get that confused with

1tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, floor

[madjack]

...I have no drinking problem...I drink...I fall down...no problem
or
...we have no town drunks...we all take turns...
madjack

[asianflava]

If you like eating mud, you'll love black-eyed peas.

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.