Good Luck Southern Style Black Eyed Peas for New Years
Southern Black Eyed Peas Recipe For New Years. Enjoying a dish of Black Eyed Peas is a New Year’s tradition in most areas of the South. It is thought to bring luck and prosperity for the New Year. A staple in the Southern diet for over 300 years, the Black Eyed Pea have long been associated with good luck.
My Mother always put a sliver dollar in her Black Eyed Peas for prosperity. Who ever got the sliver dollar in their Black Eyed Peas, always got the best luck for the year. I can only remember getting the silver dollar once.
Greens, thought to symbolize folding money, are often eaten eaten with Black Eyed Peas on New Years Day. This is called “Hopping John or Hoppin’ John” and is usually served with rice and corn bread. I am not a big fan of greens. I usually serve spinach, which is my favorite green.
But what ever you do, don’t forget the corn bread. Southerners will look at you like you have a snake on your head, if you don’t have corn bread to go with your Black Eyed Peas. Here is Baby Boomer Queen’s very easy corn bread recipe.
Whether you’re serving a full meal, appetizers, or gathering around the football game…Make sure to serve Southern Style Black Eyed Peas on Year Years Day. You can put them on a salad, make soup, serve as a side dish or even a dip. Just include them in your New Years Day menu plan.
Southern Style Black Eyed Peas Ingredients:
1(1 pound) package dried black eyed peas
2 quarts water
!/2 finely chopped small white onion
one large bay leaf
one ample tablespoon of olive oil
1/4 teaspoon of parsley
Add your ham hock, neck bone, ox tail, a ham bone, piece of salt pork or several slices of bacon, even sausage for flavor
Sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste…
You can add jalapenos if you like your Black Eyed Peas HOT or simply serve with some hot sauce, so everyone can eat them.
Southern Style Black Eyed Peas Instructions:
Search through the Black Eyed Peas for rocks and other alien items
Wash peas
Soak your peas in cold water overnight or at least 6 hours
Drain and gently rinse off again
Place peas in large pot and cover with water
Add spices, onion, oil and bay leaf
Add ham bone, bacon or what ever meat you are going to use to flavor the beans
Simmer for about 2 hours or until the Black Eyed Peas are tender
Add water if needed while cooking, don’t let them go dry…
Add your clean silver dollar before serving…
There are lots of ways to serve and fix Good Luck Southern Style Black Eyed Peas. This is the way that I prefer…BBAC wishes you a prosperous New Year.
Bon Appetit
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
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Black-eyed peas and sauerkraut have been a tradition in my home for New Years ever since I can remember. I used to hate them but now I prepare them semi-regularly. They’re a great source of fiber and a wonderful cleansing product for your system.
I will definitely be serving up black-eyed peas but I can’t get into the sauerkraut anymore. I’ll probably prepare some barbecue ribs.
Happy New Year Ms. Diva and thanks for some very informative blogs posts in 2008!
It all sounds good to me Beverly and welcome back to BBAC.
My Mother would cook light cloud like dumplings with Pork Roast and sauerkraut. That is comfort food for me and my sister.
She could really fry up some Southern Fried Chicken, as well. She always said her secret was crisco shorting and having the grease really hot. Let me tell you, she could scorch up some chicken. No one made or makes Fried Chicken like my Mother did. I miss her…
Southern smiles and world peace,
Sharon
~The Baby Boomer Queen~