2020 having been a dumpster fire an’ all, I wanna ring in a better year. But how? I like beans, but black eyed peas for some reason never crept into “edible” category for me.
Got any traditional foods in your home? Lucky, fortune-bringing dishes?
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My mom always used to serve pork chops and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day. She said it was lucky. I liked the pork chops, but avoided the sauerkraut.
Biscuits and gravy. There’s no luck involved, but it sure is good.
Made pork and sauerkraut today. Will be eating leftovers well into the new year.
2021 needs all the help it can get.
Pickled herring! (Makes them peas taste soo much better!)
Any “money” symbols–greens, lettuce, more-or-less coin-shaped foods.
I had no idea there was any such thing as a “lucky food”
How about you listen to some Black Eyed Peas instead?
Lox and bagels is a traditional New Years Day food.
I’m doing a 15 bean soup that includes black-eyed peas … we also don’t love them but not as noticeable in that context.
I just use red beans and rice cause I like those. Mother Karma hasn’t seemed to care. A little thick cut bacon or sausages thrown in never hurt either.
I had never heard of lucky foods growing up so I don’t suffer through any of it.
I did hear a tradition a few years ago that you should open up every window and door in your home to sweep out the old year. This may be the time for that.
Not when my wind chill is in the single digits and my furnace is kaput.
If I remember I’ll waft the front door open for a few seconds at midnight and bid 2020 ‘good riddance’. With unbridled enthusiasm and irreverence.
Seasoned Turnip greens and cornbread is traditional on New Years Day.
You can pair it with any protein. Pork chops are a good option or roasted chicken.
First I’ve heard of it. (But I do like black-eyed peas.)
Seven foods for luck on New Years.
Tamales.
Pozole stew (basically menudo, but with less tripe and more hominy).
I’m cooking black-eyed peas for the very first time later today. I just put a pan of cornbread in the oven to accompany it.
I love all beans, except for limas. I’ve never tried black-eyed peas - aren’t they tasty, like any other bean? Now I’m worried. I hope my hopping john with bacon and pork riblets will be edible.
Black eyed peas are good when they’re seasoned correctly. They aren’t my favorite bean. We cook more baby limas and butter beans.
That’s true of all beans. You need a ham hock or bacon to flavor them. A lot of people dice up some onion. I prefer them without it.
I’ve now cooked and eaten my first black-eyed peas and am coming back to report.
The first couple of spoonfuls of them tasted pretty good. The next two not so much. The final two, bleah. There was a flavor about them that was initially intriguing, but eventually off-putting. My husband and I decided that they were “peanutty”.
But we ate them to try to ingest some good luck to start off 2021. Next year, though, I’ll try something else.
How did you make them?
I soak the beans overnight, and drain and rinse them in the morning. I put a ham hock into the slow cooker, put in the beans, cover with water, and put in two or three bay leaves. Cook on high for about six hours. Remove the ham hock. Remove the bones, skin and fat from the ham hock. Shred the meat with a fork and return it to the pot. Add salt to taste, and a little cayenne pepper. Let it cook for another hour or two.
The first time I had black-eyed peas, I didn’t care for them. But I was a kid. And AFAIK they may have been from a can. (I still don’t care for canned black-eyed peas.) They do have an interesting flavour. But now, I’d rather eat black-eyed peas with ham hock than, say, kidney beans (which I also like).