Blackeyed peas simmering

[Old saw fixer]

I added a smoked pork neck bone, diced celery and a little crushed red pepper.  Before it's done I'll take the neck bone out and get the meat off to add back to the peas.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I just saw a couple of packs of frozen okra in the freezer. We need to collaborate here.

[LeeB]

Gonna save some for New Years Day?

[Magicman]

PatD just mentioned that we needed to get Black-eyed Peas for New Years Day.

[WV Sawmiller]

  I'll remind everybody of my Dad's take on BE peas and what the old timers said:

    "If you eat BE Peas and hog jowls on New Years Day you will have a better year ahead"

    Dad said in the deep South dried BE peas were one of the few foods country folks could grow and save without canning or refrigeration and a piece of smoked hog jowl was the cheapest cut of meat you could buy for seasoning so if you were down to eating BE peas and smoked hog jowls on New Years, things had to get better because they could not get much worse.

[LeeB]

I have hog jowl and blackeye peas, just need to score some cabbage.

[WV Sawmiller]

  Collards were the go-to greenery where I grew up in N. Fla.

[Old saw fixer]

There will be a new pot for New Years!

[JD Guy]

Collards were the go-to greenery where I grew up in N. Fla.

Here too but not all of the family likes collards so we go with spinach greens. Obviously the obligatory black eyed peas with ham and of course cornbread 
Happy New Year to All