HAPPY NEW YEAR!
It has always been a tradition for some to have blackeye peas on New Years to ensure good luck and good health for the coming year. ;)
I'm having some tomorrow and expecting to bag a big buck next season. :thumbsup:
Anyone else feel they need to eat some blackeye peas to ensure a successful hunting season next year?
No; cabbage is what you're supposed to eat on New Year's Day, to ensure a healthy and prosperous year. At least that's what my mom & her mom used to say...
I think I'll make venison my "traditional" new year's day meal...
I'd have to say Fergie is my favorite BEP. :bigsmyl:
But speaking of New Years traditions, you got to add some rice, fatback, and onions to those peas. It's called hop'n'johns.
A good pork roast with sourkraut, and mashed potatoes. UMMMMMMMM UMMMMMMM. A Pennsylvania tradition.
I'm in the blackeyed pea crowd! I'll be eating mine with some fresh North Dakota lamb chops and some steamed veggies. YUM!
Claudia
Blackeyed peas also here,already finish,it is 2010 here.
cant stand the things. loyd
Blackeyed peas for luck, greens (perferably young turnip greens) for money, cabbage, 'cause I like it (stuffed with ground deer and wild pork) and a bunch of friends!
No better way to spend New Year's Day. Not hunting this time, going to cook for my wife's horse friends, at a short trail ride. May even take my Mule along for good measure.
Ya'll are welcome to our camp...just bring your own fork plate and cup. Its a cowboy camp!
Johnny/JAG
I love all the traditions...
Grew up on the Cornbeef and Cabbage for new years.
I'm crazy about black eyed peas, but since I married a Greek we'll be having Vasilopita which is a bread made from an old handed down recipe. Inside the bread will be placed a silver coin. The bread is cut and he/she who choses the coined piece will recieve all the luck for the upcoming year.
Maybe I'll listen my The Blackeyed Peas CD while eating it this year.
Do deer ear black eyed peas? Anyone tried them in a food plot?
No Black eyed peas here...my tradition is doing nuttin! tomorrow marks the 3 yr aniv, of a car wreck that almost killed me and tragically took the life of a young kid..my wife refuses to let me leave the house now! so i just finished my "man cave" and hung all my stuff ive collected..i sit here with a crester and bitz jig but no arrows or feathers yet ( dang bills)...lol so i'll watch paul brunner a bit and Fred E. videos.
Happy New year evryone.
Jason
Deer chilli and a cold one here.
Reminds me of the old Hee Haw show... "Grandpa, what's for supper" ... Possum stew, collard greens, and black eyed peas, Yum,Yum. :biglaugh:
Heck, Lon, if they work on that "big buck" I'm gonna eat some myself next year.
George and Bill, a little early on the nog today?
Sourkraut and deer ear are new to me.
For one day a year, we eat some beef steak and king crab legs with mushrooms.
The rest of the year is wild things.
I'll second "Fergie" as my favorite BEP!
Iron, we must have posted at the same time. May the good lord walk with you tonight my friend.
Happy NEW Year.
Our tradition is to have black-eyed peas cooked with diced onion and ham left over from Christmas, along with fried potatoes with onions and a big pan of cornbread and bigger glass of sweet iced tea.
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I'll second what George said. Definitely a PA tradition. None for this year, but it's got my mouth watering.
I just left my mother's house and she is preparing
blackeyed peas, cooked cabbage seasoned with hog jowl for our family tomorrow. Has always been a tradition in her family. I should probably pick up some bean-o on the way over tomorrow.
Our tradition is black-eyed peas, pork loin and sauerkraut, shrimp, and fried oysters on New Years Day. It's sort of weird for WV but I'm a 6th generation German ( The good wife also!) but we have four children... Two of our own making as well as two beautiful children from South Korea... so it fits!
Like JAG, in the southeast it has been black eyed peas and collard greens, ones for luck and the other wealth or prosperity.
Breakfast: Smoked Venison sausage, Biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, eggs
Dinner: Pork roast, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, pork gravy, black-eye peas, collard greens
Born in Pennsylvania, raised in the South; German, Dutch, Wales, Apache, Blackfoot ancestry.
Try and cover all bases for luck, wealth, and health. Although as of late I've considered changing the New Years day menu, Because things just aren't working out the way tradition says it should. I'm open for new suggestions.......
:archer:
I try to cover all the bases and have both cabbage and black eyed peas. I only hope that it warms up enough that the bunnies will come out so I can have some wild meat to eat with them.
God bless and Happy 2010 everyone!
Mudd
Pork and sauerkraut is awesome.
I'm having a bowl of oatmeal... is THAT lucky?!?!? :rolleyes:
Being a PA native, it had to be pork roast with sourkraut, deer kilbasi and mashed potatoes at my house, just like George...
Aw come on guys your to much
Fergie Rocks!! We ALWAYS had "Corned Beef and Cabbage"!! :scared: :scared: :archer:
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!! :goldtooth:
Watched the Black Eyed Peas right after the ball drop and seeing Dick Clark mess up the countdown. Poor guy is getting up there in age, looks like he might have had a stroke.
Anyway no peas for me, just Captn' and Coke. ;)
Black eyed peas today,they are cooking right now!
Black-eyed peas are DONE! Just waiting for the grand kids to come over and help me enjoy (food and grand kids!)
Bacon wrapped venison loin roasted medium rare, sweet potato souffle, english peas and yeast rolls.
Black-eyed peas for luck for me too. If the ones I had last new years brought me good luck, I sure am glad I didn't have any bad luck. Kind of reminds me of a friend that did something to change his luck, he said that he didn't know what bad luck was till after he changed his luck.
Jack
Ok, i'll admit i must be living in a cage because ive never heard of the "black eyed pea" tradition..once again you guy's have taught me something...im gonna google them now and see if wisconsin has em...lol, 40 yrs old and never had em!
Jason
Hey Reaper,
I grew up near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. You bring it back to me with the hog jowl. We always had that with blackeyed peas, cole slaw and corn bread.
I always felt lucky when it was over and done with.
We had a great meal of pan fried venison backstrap, black-eyed peas over rice with some chow-chow on top, collard greens, and cornbread.
Man please, if I get anymore prosperous from eating blackeyed peas today, a trip to the store for more non-skid will be in order.
Black eyed peas, corned beef, and cabbage for dinner here....mmmmmm
Right on target w/ the black eye peas. Heard that all my life, in NC.
I had mine today. Blackeyed peas and ham hock soup!
Stop N'Shop in Kill Devil Hills, had it on today's menu. OBXShooter knows where it is. :wavey:
Happy New Year.