On Jan 4, 10:11*am, Kris > wrote:
> On Jan 4, 9:35*am, The Ranger > wrote:
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> > On Dec 31 2009, 6:59*pm, Kris > wrote:
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> > > Hello all and Happy New Year's Eve!
>
> > > I know we had a thread about lentils a couple of months back. Made me
> > > think of making Black Eyed Peas for New Year's Day.
>
> > > Stupidly used the rest of my bacon the other day, which is usually
> > > what I cook with my BEP. Maybe I'll be doing a simple simmer with
> > > onion, etc instead? I'm thinking of serving them over rice, perhaps.
>
> > > How do you do yours?
>
> > Cooked up some bacon, crumbled up the pieces, poured a package of
> > frozen BEP over top, sprinkled the top with some onion powder as they
> > sautéed, and served 'em with spears of hot cornbread. This was our NYE
> > tradition growing up and I'm handing it off to my daughter-units.

> THAT sounds good! Do you use much of the rendered fat in sauteeing
> them?

About two TBS, give or take a tsp. It wasn't a lot this time; the
bacon didn't have much fat on it.

The Ranger