This New Year’s Day I decided to experiment with the boring cornbread usually served with black eyed peas…with another southern New Year’s tradition: tamales. Why not marry the two? Yes, why not, indeed! I’ll admit, I thought it would be weird but it turned out so well I don’t think I’ll be able to go […]
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Not Your Grandma’s Black Eyed Peas
Down here in the South, it is tradition that we (most of us) eat black eyed peas on New Year’s Day for good luck and prosperity in the new year. This tradition may have died out a bit with young generations considering black eyed peas bland and boring…but that may be due to canned beans and poor […]