Wishing everyone a safe New Years Eve and a Happy New Year!!  Remember to watch out for all the "amateur drunks" out there on the road tonite!!!!

I was raised in a family that adheres to the Black Eyed Peas tradition but I always thought they tasted a bit bland.  So, about 20 years ago I started experimenting and came up with this recipe and thought I would share it with ya'll.


             Denny's Cajun Black Eyed Pea Soup

1 cup chopped onion                1/4 cup chopped jalapenos
1 lb bacon                               1 lb shredded sharp cheddar
1 can petite diced tomatoes      1 can of Hot Rotel
1 lb cubed ham                        6 cans black eyed peas
1 tsp beef boulion                    3 cups water


Combine boulion and water in a large soup pot and disolve on low heat. Add cheese and let melt completely before adding the peas (drain most of the juice off the peas first).

Fry bacon until crisp and then crumble into small pieces and set aside.

Sautee onions and jalapenos with some peanut oil in a large skillet for 15 mins on medium heat setting.  Add all remaining ingredients and simmer for another 15 to 20 minutes and then combine with the peas.  Cook for another 30 minutes on medium heat.

Just add cornbread, a hand towel to wipe the sweat off your forehead, and a hanky for your runny nose.   

Enjoy

Dallas Denny


edited because I'm all thumbs this mornin... lol..still don't know what I did to post before I was ready to...

 

Damn Brew, I was hopin to get it fixed before anyone read it...LOL

It's a tradition here too Denny. I remember my grandmother and my mom serving it up for New Years.

Hopin' John and cabbage. Yum!

Thanks for the recipe.

Happy New Year Clusterheads.

Steve G

Kevin_M wrote on Dec 31^st, 2009 at 10:22am:


It's a brand of tomatoes, that have chopped chili peppers or jalapeno's in it.  Makes a damned good dip when combined with Velveeta Cheese.

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Got the blackeye peas (ya know ya gotta eat 365 of the darn things - one for good luck each day of the new year), cabbage, yams, pork roast and a few more items for the New Year for good luck, wealth and a full belly....

Wishing all of you a safe and Happy New Year....

Luv  u all 
BD

PS... If you're drinking tonight PLEASE don't drive. I want all of you around in 2010.

We're going the shrimp cocktail, lobster, and filet route.

Meat with a side of meat...and salt.

           Potter

KJ wrote on Dec 31^st, 2009 at 8:08pm:


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Yep I feed them grain, including corn for their last sixty days.  Then I eat them.

           Potter

Linda_Howell wrote on Jan 1^st, 2010 at 12:11am:

Eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day is thought to bring prosperity.

The "good luck" traditions of eating black eyed peas at Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, are recorded in the Babylonian Talmud (compiled ~500 CE), Horayot 12A: "Abaye [d. 339 CE] said, now that you have established that good-luck symbols avail, you should make it a habit to see Qara (bottle gourd), Rubiya (black-eyed peas, Arabic Lubiya), Kartei (leeks), Silka (either beets or spinach), and Tamrei (dates) on your table on the New Year." However, the custom may have resulted from an early mistranslation of the Aramaic word rubiya (fenugreek).[3]

A parallel text in Kritot 5B states that one should eat these symbols of good luck. The accepted custom (Shulhan Aruh Orah Hayim 583:1, 16th century, the standard code of Jewish law and practice) is to eat the symbols. This custom is followed by Sephardi and Israeli Jews to this day.

In the United States, the first Sephardi Jews arrived in Georgia in the 1730s and have lived there continuously since. The Jewish practice was apparently adopted by non-Jews around the time of the American Civil War.

In the Southern United States,[4] the peas are typically cooked with a pork product for flavoring (such as bacon, ham bones, fatback, or hog jowl), diced onion, and served with a hot chili sauce or a pepper-flavored vinegar.

The traditional meal also features collard, turnip, or mustard greens, and ham. The peas, since they swell when cooked, symbolize prosperity; the greens symbolize money; the pork, because pigs root forward when foraging, represents positive motion.[5] Cornbread also often accompanies this meal.

These "good luck" traditions supposedly date back to the Civil War, when Union troops, especially in areas targeted by General William Tecumseh Sherman, typically stripped the countryside of all stored food, crops, and livestock, and destroyed whatever they couldn't carry away. At that time, Northerners considered "field peas" and field corn suitable only for animal fodder, and didn't steal or destroy these humble foods.[6]