<p>If you have a recipe or favorite dish that is a hit would appreciate to hear. Have a nice day.</p>
<p>I’m trying glazed pecans on the sweet potatoes this year. Do Southerners really eat black- eyed peas?</p>
<p>Black eyed peas seem to be a traditional dish for New Year’s Day down here in the south.</p>
<p>My favorite Thanksgiving dish is sweet potato souffle.</p>
<p>Ah, so it’s a good luck food.</p>
<p>Yes, if I remember right—greens are for prosperity and the peas for health</p>
<p>I wonder where that tradition came from.</p>
<p>Another southerner with the black-eyed pea New Year’s tradition! :)</p>
<p>I have no idea. When we lived further north, it was corned beef and cabbage for good luck on New Year’s.</p>
<p>Just found this little bit of info:</p>
<p>“In the South, just after the Civil War, one of the few crops left to eat was blackeyed peas. Folks believed shelling nine peas from one pod would bring good luck. Legend has it that simply eating blackeyed peas on New Year’s Day will bring good fortune all the coming year.”</p>
<p>“Also from the deep south comes the custom of eating greens such as cabbage, collard greens, mustard greens, kale or spinach to bring the all mighty green backs your way!”</p>
<p>I love black-eyed peas. They are delicious when cooked with a little ham and served with hot cornbread and greens. Remember the Tabasco. Yum! :D</p>
<p>On New Years Day we always have black-eyed peas, cornbread and collard greens.</p>
<p>I love black eyed peas. I’m not from the south, but was introduced to them by my Floridian sister in law. She always has them for New Years, not for Thanksgiving. (She does insist on cornbread stuffing though.)</p>
<p>Few years ago, my wife’s gym buddy suggested black eyed peas on new year’s day for good luck.</p>
<p>…and we have been eating them and it does bring good luck - something ‘nice’ always happens. We have been feeding it to our friends and something ‘nice’ also happens in their lives.</p>
<p>Thanks! I will definitely try them, sounds good with ham, cornbread and greens.</p>
<p>I despise black eyed peas, but am forced to swallow one (like a pill) each New Years by my superstitious husband. Wouldn’t ever do that for my parents.</p>
<p>One traditional New Year’s dish incorporating the black-eyed peas that is popular in the Charleston, SC area is Hoppin’ John–a mixture of rice, sausage, peas—very good.</p>
<p>fireflyscout–LOL! Our tradition is also to eat black-eyed peas for good luck. We all love them except youngest child, who grudgingly ate one for each year of his age until last year when he actually ate a whole serving. Strange cause he eats other beans.</p>
<p>I make them delicious with a little sauteed onion, a touch of brown sugar, and don’t forget the hot sauce! I would rather have seconds on them than on the roast beast, but that’s just me. I love greens, too.</p>