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Yum for black-eyed peas!

Kalyn Denny — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:28:50 -0600

Hi Deaf Mom and Rachel,

When I first had black-eyed peas last New Year's I wondered why it had taken me so long to try them. Love the idea of combining them with spinach too, such a healthful combo.

I hope the black-eyed peas bring you lots of good luck in 2007!

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

We like ours with spinach

mia3mom — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:07:31 -0600

We'll be having Black Eyed Peas tonight for dinner. We usually serve this dish with black beans, but for New Years it must be black eyed peas!

http://www.ourgaggleofgirls.com/recipes/?p=45

I look forward to trying the other recipes, thanks for gathering them!

Rachel - a Gaggle of girls and sites
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Deaf Mom — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:11:03 -0600

I love making black-eyed-peas, but unfortunately it's only the hubby and I who appreciate them. I toss a can of tomatoes and some sausage into mine.

Karen
"Life is too short to pout all the time."
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World

Black Eyed Peas for New Year's Day or Kwanzaa

Kalyn Denny — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:31:44 -0600

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Black Eyed Peas Photo by Kalyn

Black-eyed peas are a type of legume traditionally eaten for good luck on New Year's Day in many parts of the world. Because they originally came from Africa, they're also often featured in many Kwanzaa menus. I learned last year when I experimented with them for the first time that they're really quite delicious. You can find fresh, dried, frozen, or canned black-eyed peas in most large grocery stores in the U.S. In the southern U.S. they're often paired with collard greens, which are also quite yummy. Here are some black-eyed pea recipes some of my favorite food bloggers have featured so you can start out 2007 with good luck.

Homesick Texan has Black-eyed Peas and Texas Caviar for the new year.

Perfect for Kwanzaa, Field to Feast (one of the few food blogs in Africa) gives us West African Jollof Rice containing black-eyed peas. There's also some interesting information about other traditional New Year's foods in this post.

Annie at Bon Appegeek includes some black-eyed peas in her Bonehead Hambone Soup

Lucky Black-Eyed Pea Salad from A Veggie Venture is sure to bring you good luck.

Black-Eyed Pea Risotto from Fresh Approach Cooking is a delicious-sounding non-traditional use of black-eyed peas.

Simply Recipes has a great sounding White Chili that uses canned black-eyed peas.

Contributing editor Kalyn Denny first tried two traditional southern U.S. foods when she created a recipe for Hopping John Soup which combines Black-eyed Peas and collard greens.