Black-eye Peas and Collard Greens for Everyone!

[Chang Style Novice]

Who could turn down good luck and money? Not me, that's for d@mn sure - not after this year.

[rubthebuddha]

you having those seizures again, bud?



sheesh. and i didn't even change to legoman yet. :confused:

[Chang Style Novice]

I have no idea what you are talking about, RTB.

I don't know if you're confused, or if it's just another symptom, either.

[SevenStar]

I had my fill.

[Chang Style Novice]

Get my PM?

[Chang Style Novice]

Got yours and yodelled back!

[SevenStar]

scatted in reply

[PHILBERT]

I don't believe in getting luck, I believe in making it.

Last year I was at work on New Year's Day, and this lady litereally freaked out when we could not fill her order of like 5 lbs of black eyed peas for her and her family. She started freaking like it was the end of the world, and I called her a freak. Under my breath. Then I told her to go to the store and just BUY some and cook them herself.

[Chang Style Novice]

Well, black eyed peas and collard greens are good eating anyway, so it's a win-win situation.

[Kristoffer]

shaddap just shaddap shaddap, shaddap just shaddap shaddap

[Kristoffer]

Where is the love?

[rubthebuddha]

over there in the corner. it's lying next to chivalry, both of which are broken and bleeding (but not quite dead).

[David Jamieson]

the love?

I hear it's in that new willie nelson single that is really gonna get the tax man mad.

about as mad at me for reading yet another thread that clearly belongs in the ora forum... or perhaps at "Ihaveafoodobsession.com"

lol

man

[Oso]

poop on KL.

There's been plenty of good kung fu stuff lately.

just a few days of no kung fu isn't going to kill us.


btw, the grocery store here was completely out of black eyed peas...no frozen, canned or fresh to be had.

got a big bunch of collards though.


COLLARD RECIPE

cut leaf away from stem
wash and chop
boil w/ salt for 5 min
throw that water away
new water
1/2 cup bacon grease (or other pork product of your choosing)
1 whole red onion, chopped
bring to boil
reduce heat and simmer till tender


how do the rest of you southern fellas cook yourn?

[Chang Style Novice]

That's about right, although I usually leave out the pigstuff.

KL - Black eyed peas and collard greens is a Southern New Year's tradition meant to attract good luck and money. If you weren't so ignorant of other cultures, you'd know that.;)

[Oso]

we had brown sugar cured bacon for breakfast that morning so I saved the grease.

usually a piece of fatback for some flavor

you veg?

[Chang Style Novice]

Nah, but I try to keep the meaty bits down to a couple times a week.

[David Jamieson]

Ha! The American tells the Canadian to not be ignorant of other cultures! :p lol

Alright you guys, how does your new years gruel add to your kungfu?

cheers

[Chang Style Novice]

You know, KL, you can traffic in stereotypes all you want, but the fact is YOU demonstrated ignorance of MY culture, not the other way around.


Grow some self-awareness, why dontcha?

[Kristoffer]

Kung Klek is owned

[David Jamieson]

riiiiiiiiight. lol

tell me the significance of haggis then college boy. hahahaha.

[Oso]

significant in reference to what?

haggis being stuffed sheep stomach, I assume.

an example of not letting anything go to waste.

or are you referring to Burns Night?

[David Jamieson]

nope, just being a wad for the sake of it.

I like to get the jive out at the beginning of the years and let the love in towards the spring time til autumn then i slip into a quite period until the new year rolls around again!

the jive and love statement is the only correlation to any Burns I'll make.

But I would add that there are no references to haggis in Auld lang syne as can be seen here in one of the original stanzes, pre-burns from teh late 1560's...and I quote:

"They wald me hals with hude and hatt,
Quhyle I wes rich and had anewch,
About me friends anew I gatt,
Rycht blythlie on me they lewch;
But now they mak it wondir tewch,
And lattis me stand befoir the yett;
Thairfoir this warld is very frewch,
And auld kyndnes is quyt foryett."

ah, sounds like the language of love.

cheers

[Oso]

:D

[wentwest]

Oso & CSN,

I'm no Southerner, but I always thought Collard Greens had some vinegar added to it at some point in the cooking?

[Oso]

yes, most greens will handle a little vinegar.
with the brown sugar cured bacon grease
I opted to stay on the sweet side.
it worked out well.

:)