Who's eating Black Eyed Peas today?

[Juneaudave]

YeeeHaww...My favorite food for the New Year!!! I'll be hog heaven into some greens, cornbread, and peas in short order!!!

[mikeschn]

We had some black eyed peas yesterday in SC, courtsey of Frank and Linda... what a spread, I tell ya... If I lived down there I'd look like Shamu the whale.

If any of you get a chance to visit Frank and Linda, in Aiken SC, you're in for a treat.

Mike...

[apratt]

Yeck!!!!!

[halfdome, Danny]

Yeck!!!!!

You too must have never had the stuff, they don't eat stuff like that on the west coast that I know of. Danny

[Laredo]

Black eyed peas. Slow simmered with a ham hock, some onion and a little garlic ... yeah baby.

Cornbread -- made with buttermilk. Leave out the sugar and the honey. Add a can of creamed corn to the batter and some chopped onions and serranos. Ooh. Yeah. Good stuff.

Chopped greens -- collards and mustard and turnip greens mixed together. Cook them with some seasoning bacon.

Top it all off with a cold glass of milk.

Seriously good eats. Healthy eats and probably the cheapest "celebration" meal going.

[Miriam C.]

Dang it Laredo! Collard greens up here are disgusting or in a can.

Black eyed peas (same as Larado)
cornbread (sweet)
Coleslaw (Mikes family favorite)
Smithfield ham steaks.
Fried potatoes and onions.

[Laredo]

Miriam:
If you can find 'em try the "Glory" "Sensibly Seasoned" kind in the can.
If you can't, get a good (PictSweet) frozen brand. 'S worth the trouble to fix your own once a year, eh?
But down here the greens are all in 'fresh produce'.
Mama used to start her Seneca-farm (we were 7 miles south on 43, about a mile from Needham's store) garden indoors the week after New Year's, on a three-shelf deal in the corner of the dining room across from the heater. The sun hit the top shelf on winter mornings until nearly noon, and I guess the seeds didn't know they weren't outside. She would move the plants out onto the top of the (chest-type) deep freeze to "hardy up" the week after Easter and put 'em out in the garden when we just had three more weeks of school.

Now, the trick to this was, we had a little old pond -- about six feet long and about four feet wide and oh, probably eight inches deep -- down at one end of the yard, and about 100 yards away was the barn. So guess who got to haul wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of fertilizer to the garden?
And five-gallon buckets of water up from the pond once everything was set out?

[apratt]

Yeck!!!!!

You too must have never had the stuff, they don't eat stuff like that on the west coast that I know of. Danny

No my mom was an Okie. We had black eye peas when my brothers and I was little, but as I got older my dad didn't like them either so we did not eat them anymore. Yeck!!!

[Miriam C.]

My sister lives a few miles South of Seneca on Quince and about halfway to E cc. I think it is cc. I think if I put collards out at Easter they would be too hot by July. I tried one year and they went to seed before they were a foot high. I was very ticked. I could put them in the living room window. It gets all day sun now. Maybe I'll try. I love collards with turnip greens. 7 top grow well here.

[apratt]

Black eyed peas. Slow simmered with a ham hock, some onion and a little garlic ... yeah baby.

Cornbread -- made with buttermilk. Leave out the sugar and the honey. Add a can of creamed corn to the batter and some chopped onions and serranos. Ooh. Yeah. Good stuff.

Chopped greens -- collards and mustard and turnip greens mixed together. Cook them with some seasoning bacon.

Top it all off with a cold glass of milk.

Seriously good eats. Healthy eats and probably the cheapest "celebration" meal going.

Now if I get my hands on some fresh mustard greens......oh man my mouth water, can't get enough of it. Cook it with onions, bacons and dash of crushed red peppers. Ummmmm yummm oh and sprinkle some vinigar.

[Gaelen]

hmmm...I thought it was lentils for New Year's... ;-0
My grandpa used to make lentils and greens (usually escarole, or spinach) with a lot of garlic and onions and a piece of salt pork.

[Nitetimes]

Ours is always a pork roast with sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and baked beans.

[asianflava]

Had soem at a BBQ restaurant the other day. We were looking at a Hoppin' John recipe on the drive to FL.

[thobbs]

We did! Over brown rice with veggies, cheese and tabasco sauce. YUM

[madjack]

...you betcha...I cooked up some black eyed peas with ham left over from Christmas dinner, onions, garlic and my private pepper blend...cabbage with onions, garlic and some more of that ham...woke the wife (aka the poor girl) at 4 so she could cook up some cornbread and we chowed down for supper before she went off to play Nancy Nurse...gotta have 'em for good luck and prosperity ya know
madjack