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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBought a ham,head of cabbage and black eyed peas
For the recipe posts! Lol! Happy New Year! Glad I had some money for the dang ham after the 1% and Trump took it all!
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)for good luck in the new year. Been missing my mom bad today.
Laffy Kat
(16,389 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)Especially our furchildren that have gone on.
Ohiogal
(32,118 posts)when he said poor people are poor because they spend their money on I- phones! (which they obviously don't deserve to have)
Enjoy your ham! Here in NE Ohio we dine on pork and sauerkraut for New Year's.
Here's to your Mom.
blue neen
(12,335 posts)I got the pork roast today, stuck it in the freezer and will cook it on New Year's Day.
Welcome to DU!
Ohiogal
(32,118 posts)spinbaby
(15,090 posts)Hope the weather cooperates so I can get to the Giant Eagle for my roast tomorrow.
blue neen
(12,335 posts)It looked to be bad weather this weekend, so I bought everything then.
I wonder how many people will show up for the Steelers-Browns game? It will really be frigid down there!
Hope you make it to Giant Eagle! Happy New Year!
Laffy Kat
(16,389 posts)No one out west here is aware of the tradition and I miss BEPs on January 1st.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That's what my mom always told me, too. That and being the first to write the new year down on paper.
questionseverything
(9,663 posts)the Yankees took everything
but black eyed peas are underground like a peanut so southerners survived on them
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-eyed_pea
So the Sherman's March theory has problems. And I have a problem with white southerners celebrating emancipation. I guess this is one tradition we just have to accept without too much inquiry.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I assure you they are not underground. They are a legume same as green peas and butter beans.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)their tax cut is actually a tax increase. Your soup recipe sounds delacioso! Must try it. Thanks!
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Per this article:
Robert Moss
http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/12/southern-hoppin-john-new-years-tradition.html
I'll cook my beans (with ham hock, onion, and bell pepper) separately from the brown rice and serve the cooked bacon along with hog jowls on the side.
I also got buttermilk to make cornbread.
New Year's Day I'll use the rest of the buttermilk to make pancakes on the counter top griddle I got for Christmas! I cooked our fish for tonight's dinner on it and it was great.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)A favorite dish of theirs is jellied pigs' feet.
Sounds yucky to some. "Ya hafta be there!"
I am found of Souse. A lunchmeat of piggy parts. Delish! 😄
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Grew up on it and will, on occasion, make it for myself.
Consider it comfort food served with horseradish.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)She added some carrots, splash of vinegar, salt and pepper. Now I'm hankerin' for some.😋
Happy New Year!
🎆🎉🥂
onethatcares
(16,192 posts)are "hog jowls"?
I think I could like some of that but actually don't know which part of the pig they are.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)The ones I get from Publix are pretty much like salt pork but with more smoking and come sliced or unsliced - I get sliced. The best way to cook them is to lay them out on a baking sheet and bake them until crispy. They are sort of like the pork rinds sold like potato chips down here.
Once I made the mistake of getting hog jowls from the local historic general store. When I unwrapped the package, there was a jaw bone with the meat and fat still attached - well smoked, though. While the flavor was good, cutting the smoked meat off was a PITA.
Huh - I tried to google "hog jowls" and it gave me results for "pork jowls" - that is NOT what my Alabama raised Mom ever called them!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)and when inspecting the meat at home - we were adding it to our lucky New Year's Day first meal - she saw whisker stubbles all over one side and FREAKED OUT.
She had no idea what a jowl was!
From then on it has been pork chops or a Boston Butt.
I hope she never figures out what part of a pig the butt comes from!
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And you are Cajun gal? This Louisiana native polity corrects your culinary faux pas. COLLARDS. Or at least turnips it mustards.
Are you some Irish or German infiltrator?
All kidding aside. Enjoy your meal and happy New Year.
If you dont mind me asking, where in LA are you from?
Yonnie3
(17,500 posts)you beat me to it. Collard greens, ham hocks and black-eyed peas are the tradition.
Of course, I don't mind Ham and Cabbage a bit either.
Enjoy!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Lochloosa
(16,073 posts)Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)FormerOstrich
(2,703 posts)by using hot links in my black-eye peas instead of ham. Plus, I usually have spinach instead of greens (this year from my garden). But what makes it is adding rivels (sort of like a dumpling) like my great Aunt did.
And cornbread made in a cast iron skillet!
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)P&D small Shrimp
Roger Wood Spicy Hot Sausage (Savannah GA)
Margaret Holmes Tomatoes, Okra, & Corn (Effingham SC)
Red Potatoes (NC)
White Rice
additionally for my version:
Margaret Holmes Hoppin' John (Effingham SC)
Green Cabbage (NC)
Cayenne Pepper
I tried to get every item from the Carolinas, as this is a Charleston-style dish. Roger Wood is close enough in Savannah, Carolina Shrimp is expensive and hard to get 200 miles inland, Carolina Rice is very expensive.
home-baked White Loaf bread from Food Lion (NC-based supermarket)
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Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)New Years traditional italian fare
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)Margaret Holmes Field Snaps and Peas. Also grabbed a can of her Triple Succotash.
$1 each. (Sufferin' Succotash!) Making some potatoes to offset strong ham flavor just in case.
My mom would always advise that my demeanor on New Year's Eve would set it for the full year.
I'll try to be a good girl and behave but there's no promisin'. 😝
malaise
(269,219 posts)Where's the recipe?
Freddie
(9,275 posts)It's pork, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. I'm not fond of sauerkraut and DH does not care much for roast pork, so I'm making ham and bean soup with the leftover Christmas ham. One of the ingredients is shredded cabbage so that counts.
Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Having Popeye's and BBQ this year for all the family this year. Think I have some black eye peas in the pantry too.