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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 12:05:13 PM
My grandma always made this for New Years - supposed to bring good luck. Now I make it and every year we talk about the good things that happened the year before.
Anybody else do this or have other New Years traditions?
Amy Grace
(hoppin' john is blackeyed peas and rice or other)
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Dec 31 2008 : 6:46:52 PM
I never heard of Hoppin John but, then I'm from the North. Grandma used to open a can of pickled herring, put it on rye bread with mustard and eat that (and have us eat one, too) at the stroke of midnight for luck and prosperity in the new year. I never cared much for the pickled herring, but I do eat some kind of fish at midnight. I think it was a German tradition. Never really asked questions or researched it, though.
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Dec 31 2008 : 6:34:16 PM
Thanks for the info Marybeth!! I had never heard the Skippin' Jenny part either.
I make ours with bacon and tabasco
Amy Grace
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| corporatefarmgirl |
Posted - Dec 31 2008 : 12:48:01 PM
I am setting here smiling from ear to ear. Love the string around the pot. I can't wait to tell that to my grandkids  .
We are having blackeyed peas seasoned with hog jowl and jalapeno peppers. Fresh greens with vinigar and cornbread will round out the meal.
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Dec 31 2008 : 07:19:37 AM
Black eyed peas for New Years day here too. Found a recipe for black eyed pea chili. It is made with sausage, peas, canned tomatoes. That is what I WAS going to make. My #1 son said when he cooks his peas, he seasons them with bacon and onion. Just as the peas finish cooking he adds a bag of fresh spinach. So that is what I am fixin. Along with some corn bread and cole slaw. Going to pull left over cake from Christmas out of the freezer. But that is tomorrow. Having spaghetti with tomato junk (home made and froze last summer)for supper tonight. |
| LindaEllen |
Posted - Dec 31 2008 : 06:46:58 AM
Thank you Marybeth on the info about Hoppin' John , looks like I'm going ot eat leftover blackeye peas this New Years as well : ).
Linda
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 10:41:31 PM
For those who might not know about Hoppin' John, I thought this was interesting.
Hoppin' John is the Southern United States' version of the rice and beans dish traditional throughout the Caribbean. It consists of field peas or crowder peas (black-eyed peas) and rice, with chopped onion and sliced bacon, seasoned with a bit of salt.[1]
Some people substitute ham hock or fatback for the conventional bacon; a few use green peppers or vinegar and spices.
Smaller than black-eyed peas, field peas are used in the Low Country of South Carolina and Georgia; black-eyed peas are the norm elsewhere. Throughout the coastal South, eating Hoppin' John on New Year's Day is thought to bring a year filled with luck, and it's eaten by everyone. The peas, or beans with little black “eyes,” signify coins. Fill your plate with them and your cup will run over, as in the 23rd Psalm, perhaps. Collard greens along with this dish are supposed to also add to the wealth since they are the color of money. On the day after New Year's Day, leftover "Hoppin' John" is called "Skippin' Jenny," and further demonstrates one's frugality, bringing an even better chance of prosperity in the New Year, it is hoped.
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| K-Falls Farmgirl |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 6:43:26 PM
ROTFLOL as I read this post...I just blew diet coke out my nose.. Too Funny Amy! I gotta rememer this one too.
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| LindaEllen |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 6:38:30 PM
LOL , I love your aunt. I shall share that with my gradkiddies when they ask what those ducks are doin with their backsides stickin up in the air , lol .
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 6:35:29 PM
There is an herb called Epazote which is supposed to help with this - I haven't tried it though.
Linda Ellen, I like your cure.
When I was little my aunt told me the ducks in the pond put their butts up in the air because they didn't want to fart in the same water they brushed their teeth in - sounds like she may have been talking to you
Amy Grace
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 6:01:59 PM
We do the pinch of baking soda thing too...seems to work on everyone except my husband..who needs it the worst!!
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| msjocee |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 4:18:42 PM
I make the black eyed peas and use my leftover ham bone from Christmas, we have corn bread with it as well. My MIL always makes this now I make it for my family. My MIL swears by a pinch of baking soda in the beans and we NEVER have gas! She does this with cabbage as well. When I add the pinch I am never ever gassy!
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| nubidane |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 4:14:19 PM
Actually, I have heard that putting a peeled potato in your beans will absorb some of the gas producing enzymes. |
| LindaEllen |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 3:24:08 PM
Lol on the hog jowl, vermont v, I havn't heard that for some time. good seasoning.
Well Amy, I picked up my bag of blackeye peas today along with that 15 bean soup, got my ham bone for Christmas , cornbread and those greens sound good to. Big ol bake tater as well. Every New Years I cook the blackeye peas. "Hoppin' John" never heard them called that. Just blackeye peas.
Some of your all's way of cookin' the beans sound pretty darn good, yum.
Say speaking of beans, you how to get the gas out of beans? While your beans are cooking you put heavy string around the inside of your pot with it hanging out on the outside so the little farts can climb out, :P
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| vermont v |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 3:06:43 PM
We make blackeyed peas wih some hog jowl!!! Yum. Also we put the picked jalapenos in a jar in just for a little more zip. I may make cornbread or biscuits. Sounds like a lot of folks are going to have a Happy NEW Year. |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 3:00:23 PM
Yes, we have always done the Hoppin' John and rice and turnip greens, ham, and cornbread. Love it.
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 12:33:53 PM
Sure do. Every New Year's Day, but we eat it quite a bit at other times in the year, too. I make my Hoppin John with adouille, and corn bread and some salad for me (the boys--my husband and his friends) do not eat green things :) We have Sweet Potato pie for dessert. Which reminds me, I have to put my beans on soak tomorrow evening :)
Happy New Year!
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| MsCwick |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 12:18:32 PM
we make black eyed peas and stewed tomatoes! |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 12:16:06 PM
I never called it that..but know alot of people do. I make a big pot of black eyed peas (ham hock added..yum!) and a separate pot of greens every year on New years Day...my grandma always did so I always have too. Besides...good for you and yummy!! No matter what else we have for a dinner on New years day those two items are included. It was kinda weird the year we did chinese food (homemade) for a big family dinner one year...but everyone had some.
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