"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/27/2017 12:01 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>> "Nancy Young" wrote in message ...
>> On 12/26/2017 10:17 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> Do you do special foods then? When I was
>>
>>> I do serve black eyed peas on New Year's day but I am the only one that
>>> likes them. Looking for ideas!
>>
>> No New Year's foods for me but you've inspired me to do that this
>> year. Luckily I love black eye'd peas so maybe it will be
>> Hopping John. Pork with sauerkraut perhaps? I see in Mexico
>> it's 12 grapes.
>>
>> nancy
>>
>> ==
>>
>> Do black eye'd peas taste different to other peas and beans?
>>
>>
> It's not the taste so much as texture. They're somewhat dry and mealy no
> matter how you cook them. Hoppin' John is black eyed peas cooked with
> rice. Despite my living in the southern US for a long time this was never
> a New Year's Day tradition in my family.
>
> Jill


I've never found them to be dry or mealy, soft and creamy, yes.

Cheri