vgoulette
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As I began preparing black-eyed peas for dinner tonight, I was thinking about what one of DH's aunts in Florida had to say about eating black-eyed peas 30+ years ago. She said they are only "fit to feed the hogs." I still smile when I think about the conversation.
So, my questions to all of you -- do you eat black-eyed peas, and if so, how do you prepare them?
Ours are frozen (fresh from picking out of the field last summer) with a LOT of snaps. I rinse them, par-boil, drain, add fresh water and cook on the stovetop till tender (but still green), add salt and bacon grease. Sooooo good!!
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MAJESTYPOINTERS
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mockturtle
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I haven't cooked black-eyed peas in over 34 years, when I was married to my ex, who happened to like them. But I like them--and miss them! I used to cook them from dried, like beans, with a little salt pork or a ham hock. And lots of salt and pepper. My ex used to put hot sauce on his. In fact, he put it on almost everything.
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rmw1990
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I usually cook them in the crockpot with ham chips and lots of black pepper. I will sometimes make stewed tomatoes to eat with them. Nothing better than cornbread, B-E peas, and stewed tomatoes. YUM!
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I love peas and beans, raised on beans and potatoes. We have started putting a smoked turkey wing in the beans for flavoring with salt and pepper. Hmm....good. My favorite bean is pintos along with slaw and corn bread.
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fla-gypsy
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I have met very few beans I didn't like.
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mytime
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We were at our camp-out this week-end and had snap beans and new patatoes for pot luck.....was it ever gooood.....
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Liv42day
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yepper for sure.........black eyed peas in crock pot with salt pork...or toss with smoked turkey pieces.......
dang now i am really getting hungry......time to pop open my jar of pig's feet.
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abskws
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Blackeyed peas - dried (1 pound bag). Soak in water over night to soften. Drain, rinse and pick thru to make sure there aren't any rocks accidently picked up by the mechanical harvester. If you use fresh, obviously you don't have to go thru this step. I then buy 1 or 2 country (salted) ham hocks, put them in a cast iron skillet and bake on 350 for an hour or so. Pour off the grease and place the hocks, peas, chopped onion, salt (just a little since the ham is salty) and a couple of tablespoons of sugar in the crock pot and cook until the broth gets very gray looking and thickens. Serve with my wife's green tomato relish. It will make a rabbit hug a hound!! Good Luck and Drive Careful!
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MCDDY
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Good eatin but my favorite peas are Crowders. When I was a kid we'd go visit my uncle who had a truck farm in NW La., always in August. We'd pick, peas, butter beans, squash and corn. He also grew Black Diamond watermelons. Pick a couple and bring them down to the creek in the afternoon, wedge them up under a root and let them cool in the cold running water while we swam, Yum. Then sit on the porch in the evening and shell and shell and shell. Momma would pack them in bags for the freezer and on the way back home the back end of that old 49Pontiac would be full of bushels. Momma, my sister and I would shell peas and beans all the way home. Daddy always said it was a pea hull trail all the way back to So. Louisiana.
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