Yum! We found the perfect recipe to start out 2010! We planned to make our French Market Soup that contains black-eyed peas...but...we discovered that our dried bean mix had been used up last year and we hadn't rebought ALL the dried beans for it...so Woody got out our soup recipe notebook and looked to see if we had any other soups that contained black-eyed peas and found a recipe for Black-Eyed Pea Stew and Rice. This is a recipe that we were served in 2003 when we had our annual get-together with dear friends. It was yummy then...and we are so glad that they shared their recipes that year...as it proved tasty in 2010, also! Thanks, Linda and Doyle!
Now, for those who don't know about the tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day...or for those who know of the tradition, but don't know the "why" of the tradition: It is a Southern tradition dating back to the American Civil War. Black-eyed peas are thought to bring prosperity to those who eat them on New Year's Day. Now, you may wonder what the connection between peas and prosperity...it was thought that the peas represented coins. Another tradition (which we didn't follow) is to eat greens, such as turnip greens or collard greens. The greens represent dollar bills.
The black-eyed peas are traditionally cooked with pork, diced onion and hot pepper sauce. Our recipe contained those ingredients plus more!
Woody has been enjoying football games today. Graham came over this morning to finish his K'nex project...an electronic arcade game. It turned out really great. He finished it a little before lunch and took it home to practice and then challenge his daddy and anyone else interested in playing him! The cooking pictured above and the clean-up took up a good portion of my day. I did go over to Nathan and Kathy's to put the quilt top on Esther's bed to see about its size. It's getting close to the point of layering top, batting, and backing. Esther crawled under it while it was on her bed. She seems to like it. Woody and I took a walk around the block mid-afternoon...BRRRRRRRRRR! It was 29 with a bit of a breeze...so don't know what the "feels-like" temperature was if you factored in the wind chill. It is supposed to get really cold (down in the teens) for the next several nights. Right now it is 25 deg. F with a wind chill of 20...I'm staying in my nice warm house! Besides watching football, Woody has read today...and he seemed to approve of my first kitchen efforts of 2010.
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