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Dec 31st, 2009 at 8:52am
 
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.   Smiley Smiley

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...

 



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Re: Black Eyed Peas for New Years Good Luck?
Reply #1 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 8:57am
 
Dallas Denny 62 wrote on Dec 31st, 2009 at 8:52am:
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 always thought they tasted a bit bland.  So, about 20 years ago I started experimenting with this recipe and thought I would share it with ya'll.


             Denny's Cajan Black Eyed Pea Soup

1 cup chopped onion                1/4 cup chopped jalapenos
1 lb bacon


Okay, maybe I'm losing it, but it doesn't call for any black-eyed peas.
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Reply #2 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 9:21am
 
Damn Brew, I was hopin to get it fixed before anyone read it...LOL
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Reply #3 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 9:27am
 
I was going to say, too, that onion, bacon, and jalapeno (all raw, since there wasn't any cooking instructions) didn't sound too healthy.

I just made a big pot of bean soup yesterday - not as spicy as this one sounds, but yummy nonetheless. As my gramma used to say, "Good for what ails ya."
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Reply #4 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 9:46am
 
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.

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Reply #5 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 10:22am
 
Gotta put that one away for a someday special, could give it a try.

The discovery days of black-eyed peas was when I moved to Houston for few years in with a Shreveport belle who could cook.  Never saw the things before up here, actually have black eyes.  They were welcome on the plate anytime, anyway. 

But now, what's Hot Rotel?

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Reply #6 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 10:49am
 
Kevin_M wrote on Dec 31st, 2009 at 10:22am:
But now, what's Hot Rotel?



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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Reply #7 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 10:53am
 
deltadarlin wrote on Dec 31st, 2009 at 10:49am:
Makes a damned good dip when combined with Velveeta Cheese.

Big fan of the pedestrian comfort food here.

Velveeta. Yes!
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Reply #8 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 4:36pm
 
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 
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PS... If you're drinking tonight PLEASE don't drive. I want all of you around in 2010.
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Reply #9 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 6:22pm
 
In SC the tradition was Collard Greens and Black eyed Peas.  The collards were to be sure there was green in your wallet, and the peas were to be sure there was change in your pocket. 

Wish the wife liked Collards!  Never get them now that I've moved north.  I refuse to eat the frozen stuff!

Got my mouth watering for a good pot of collards cooked with ham hocks and onion, a big pot of black eyed peas with a little fatback in them, and a big pan of cracklin corn bread!  My Dr would complain, but man that is eatin'!

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Reply #10 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 6:28pm
 
We're going the shrimp cocktail, lobster, and filet route.
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Reply #11 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 6:39pm
 
Corned beef and cabbage around here....yum. Smiley
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Reply #12 - Dec 31st, 2009 at 6:47pm
 
Meat with a side of meat...and salt.

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Dammit Potter, sounds like you've invented corned beef and bacaon....you bastard! Grin
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KJ wrote on Dec 31st, 2009 at 8:08pm:
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We're going the shrimp cocktail, lobster, and filet route.


dayum...and me so far away.  Shocked  I had a bowl of soup at a Denny's in Gallop, NM.   Cry

This black-eyed pea thing must be a southern thing.  I've never heard of it.  Wonder how it originated???
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Linda_Howell wrote on Jan 1st, 2010 at 12:11am:
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dayum...and me so far away.  Shocked  I had a bowl of soup at a Denny's in Gallop, NM.   Cry

This black-eyed pea thing must be a southern thing.  I've never heard of it.  Wonder how it originated???

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]

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Reply #17 - Jan 1st, 2010 at 4:11pm
 
Dang, that recipe just might make me eat beans!!



as for Velveeta, ewww!! I liked it when I was a kid, but now find it offensive, lol.
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