Successful New Year's Meal; Brunswick Stew!

dragonmom
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:36:58 +0000

Hoppin’ John is a requirement for New Year’s at our house. Eating black-eyed peas for luck is a wide-spread Southern tradition and my favorite way to eat them is in hoppin’ john.
Mine is pretty simple. Cook up some bacon. Pour off the fat and saute an onion in the little bit of drippings left. Add cooked rice and canned black eyed peas (Trappey’s with jalepeno peppers is our favorite). Stir it up and keep hot until dinner. Serve with a good Louisiana hot sauce.
Remarkably similar to Costa Rica’s national breakfast dish of Gallo Pinto.