"jmcquown" wrote in message ...

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

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