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I bought two smoked ham hocks today. I'm open to ways to do the black-eyed peas?

Gonna dig out a recipe Richard.



Charlie sent me a bunch of black eye peas a while back cause I could not find any locally.



I will cook some in his honor.

I just cut the bone out of the ham we had for Christmas but I'll be using it for white beans.

I know BEP are the thing for New Years, but I prefer white beans.

Soak, cook with meat, onion, jalapenos and Morton season all.

Black eyed peas cooked in a ham base with some chunky bacon scraps


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Dump 'em in a cereal bowl with ketchup on top.

Heaven.

Soak dried beans overnight

Drain in the morning.

Place in pot with ham hocks and any ham scraps you have or bacon or jowl cut to a medium size.

Cover with chicken stock.

Add salt, black pepper, onion and jalapeño to taste.

Cook low and slow for at least 2.5 to 3 hours checking for liquid levels occasionally.

Serve over rice.

I think I’ve only ever had them from a can.

When I am using a ham based cooking liquid, similar to making beans or split peas, I will put the hocks in a slow cooker for 36-48 hours with a bay leaf or two. Make sure they stay below the water while the simmer. After that, I strain the meat from the broth and put the broth in the fridge. I will seperate the meat from the fat and bones and put that in the fridge. The following day there will be a solid half an inch of solidified fat on top of the broth that is rock solid. Throw that fat layer out or use it elsewhere if you prefer. The broth will act like Jell-O when it's cold but is the perfect base for your soups and stews. Make the soup the way you normally would and throw the ham you picked off the shank in when you want.

This also works for beef shanks and necks. Same process.

+1 This fellow knows what he is doing. Also, must be served with required side of good (not sweet) buttered cornbread and a vinegar based pepper sauce.

No one around here grows blackeyed peas anymore, instead it's the pinkeye purplehull pea. About the same, only a better taste I think.

My wife and mom always Cook collared greens, hog jowls, black eyed peas, corn bread and fried potatoes for New Years. My wife’s mom always makes a split pea soup and brings the desserts. I look forward to that meal all year. Sometimes I can convince my wife to make it a couple more times a year.

Its funny.

The only thing a Southerner doesn't like covered in sugar is corn bread.

Thanks for the recipe BlackHunter.

TEN COMMANDMENTS OF SOUTHERN CORNBREAD

1. Thou shalt not put sugar in thy Cornbread
2. Thou shalt not bake Cornbread in anything other than a pre-heated, oiled, cast iron vessel
3. Thou shalt not put sugar in thy Cornbread
4. Thou shalt use only pre-heated bacon fat, lard, or butter in thy Cornbread
5. Thou shalt use only very limited wheat flour - or none at all - in thy Cornbread
6. Thou shalt not put sugar in thy Cornbread
7. Thou shalt use only buttermilk in thy Cornbread
8. Thou shalt slather thy Cornbread with butter
9. Thou shalt eat thy desert Cornbread with syrup, molasses, or honey
10.Thou shalt not put margarine in thy Cornbread

IF one had a real ham at Christmas, then the fat, bones, skin should be used to flavor up the blackeye peas or big ol pot of pintos.
Get the last bit of SQUEAL out of that P I G pig.

Jus' sayin'

Black eyed peas on Jan. 1st, are a standard Southern tradition. At least that is what both my paternal grandmother from Alabama and my maternal grandmother from Tennessee always said. It brings good luck. If you do not have black eyed peas on Jan. 1st, your luck will be poor the rest of the year.

So .................... Black eyed peas it is. I need all the luck I can get.

L.W.

Mom always cooked them with lots of strips of bacon in the pot. She always cooked them on New years, but we ate them anytime she could get fresh ones when I was growing up.
I love them ! Hated shelling them as a kid though. 🤠

We didn't have any blackeyed peas, but do have pickeye purple hulls in the freezer, so we fixed a pot of them for supper last night.

My wife's from Kansas, more mid western than southern. But, she always cooks cabbage and black eyed peas for New Years. She does it right, with plenty of bacon, etc.

And, it's always good. With us, it's a 42 year old custom...

DF