Have you started your good luck meal for today? By JR (Read 578 times)

[JR]

Up early this morning and all who know me know I'm going to make a New Year's Day good luck meal feast! Pulled the crock pots out early and opened my a big jar of sealed dried black eye peas, not the ones you buy but the ones I raised this summer and let them dry and then sealed them in jars. When one wants a good mess of peas just add water and seasoning and throw them in the crock pot. Of course most people don't do this so store bought ones will do as well too. I put a big piece of salt pork in with them along with a little black pepper, they are starting to make a nice aroma as I type.




Now it's cold in Arkieland actually had a tiny touch of sleet this morning but it didn't stop me from picking a big mess of fresh collard greens from my garden, nice and crisp from the cold, tender and sweet another must for good luck on new years day. Got them in another crock pot with a little salt pork, a tad of sugar and salt and about two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, makes them sweeter! Yesterday went to the supermarket and even though they had a lot of fresh cut packages of hog jowl already cut I had the butcher slice mine up, I don't like it in chunks but rather sliced up like bacon.




Add a big pan of fresh hot cornbread with some of my honey from my bee hives and man you're set!




My wife had to work last night and she's now asleep but when she gets up around 4 she'll have this meal fit for a king waiting on her! My grandkids don't quite understand the tradition but will for sure eat it too. Actually the grandson loves collard greens and both of them are pea and cornbread eaters.




So if you don't have this meal started or don't have the fresh stuff or a crock pot you can still haul arse to your market and if worse comes to worse buy the black eyes and collard greens in a can and anyone can make cornbread! Hurry and get it done, you entire year of good luck depends on it!




JR

[fflintstone]

Hey JR--Happy New Year to you and thanks for the collard greens ,hog jowl,and black eyed peas--we had some of all that but my wife is about 2 bubbles off plum when it comes to country soul food--she puts a big ham bone in the crock pot with some pintos or Great Northern beans and gets some turnip greens out of a can and slices some sweet onion and fries some cornbread in a skillet--now those white beans are a little gassy but you can dump a table spoon of Arm and Hammer baking soda in the pot and it will reduce the explosiveness of the farts--and will enrich the smell somewhat--and when we eat high on the hog,we like to have some pull pork to go with it--yum--had to let my belt out a couple notches--that might have had something to do with that big chunk of jam cake she made too--enjoy

[JR]

Know what ya mean Flintstone! Collard greens can really clean out the plumbing too!

JR

[rks]

I seem to remember hearing those recipes years and years ago on Hee-Haw.

[fflintstone]

Jan 17, 2015 3:55:29 GMT -6 rks said:

I seem to remember hearing those recipes years and years ago on Hee-Haw.

You may be right --JR used to write for Heee Haw--hahahaha--actually those recipes can also be found in farmers almanac of long ago,but JR always grows his own food and does his own canning and preserving;stuff we learned way back when stores were not the only produce distributors --nowadays we are slowly getting back to the farmer being the distributor and seller of produce,with farmers markets making a comeback---we have opened several farmers markets up here in Tennessee in the last couple years along with giant flea markets sometimes being a partner in leasing real estate for sales---we now have a slogan locally,"Shop small,buy local "trying to compete with the big box stores--well,good luck with that--sigh