New Year's dinner
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cp1969 said:
Sounds like here; no jaws or greens today, but I sure did have some black-eyed peas along with the chuck roast, taters, carrots, bell pepper, onion, cornbread, cranberry sauce, and chocolate cake.
Glenn9643
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No jaws. We've been cooking pork neckbones, rice, blackeyed peas, cabbage, and corn bread today!
NSBound
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You guys are making me hungry, and I'm not even hungry! I just made up my plum pudding and sauce tonight...too much food to do it on Christmas day! Cheers to all.
Egon
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And I am hungry too! 
But a question, with all that good food how does one maintain a waistline?
But a question, with all that good food how does one maintain a waistline?
Chuck52
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I cooked our peas with ham hocks, home dried peppers, and a little onion for flavor. Had cole slaw, corn bread, and potatoes, sweet potatoes and onions mashed up together to go with the peas. Since there was some whipping cream left over from Christmas, I made ice cream using frozen home grown strawbwrries in the little Cuisinart thingie we got as a present. Came out real good even though I forgot to put in the vanilla.
Wifies a nurse, and I was home alone and did all the cooking, such as it was. I spent the day trimming trees and burning the results, and proving to myself that the cheap gear puller I had wasn't going to budge the steering wheel on my old Kubota so I could work on the broken steering mechanism. What did you guys do......watch a game or play outside?
Chuck
Wifies a nurse, and I was home alone and did all the cooking, such as it was. I spent the day trimming trees and burning the results, and proving to myself that the cheap gear puller I had wasn't going to budge the steering wheel on my old Kubota so I could work on the broken steering mechanism. What did you guys do......watch a game or play outside?
Chuck
redlevel
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FYI the correct terminology is "hog jowl", pronounced "jole" here in the South. We had collard greens grown in my garden, cracklin' cornbread, dry black-eye peas, tomatoes stewed down with sugar and vineger, cabbage slaw, ham, and pork loin; the collards and peas were seasoned with ham hocks. We have never done the jowl thing.
Legend has it that people in Georgia were lucky if they had a little cured pork, corn meal, and their seed peas left on New Year's Day after Sherman's March to the sea in late November and December of 1864. Therefore, we eat peas, cured hog meat, cornbread, and greens on Jan. 1 for "luck". The greens are so you will have plenty of "green" in the upcoming year.
Legend has it that people in Georgia were lucky if they had a little cured pork, corn meal, and their seed peas left on New Year's Day after Sherman's March to the sea in late November and December of 1864. Therefore, we eat peas, cured hog meat, cornbread, and greens on Jan. 1 for "luck". The greens are so you will have plenty of "green" in the upcoming year.
Egon
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Chuck, I had the same problem pulling the steering wheel on my Kubota. Local tire shop could not do it either. When I went to the dealer for the gearbox parts they supported the steering wheel in a vice and it took two swift taps with a bronze hammer to the end of the shaft to take the steering wheel off.
Now I know it's not cooking but!
Now I know it's not cooking but!
rox
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Just now reading back through these threads in rural lving. i wonder why you all eat black eyed peas on new years? Is this a southern tradition, or is is jsut a coincidence becasue you all happen to like black eyed peas?
We had rather a french influenced new years meal, frois gras, caviar, smoked salmon garnished with sour cream, green onion and capers served on toasted slices of baguettes, then a big rib eye steak with real thin sliced potatoes baked in olive oil till they were crispy. I don't think we had desert. New years eve it was fresh shrimp, crab, skate oh and a delicious bottle of champagne. My husband really like to eat well and he relishes the excuse of a holiday to cook up a storm.
When my son gets out of the Peace Corps and visits us for 2 weeks in April he has told my husband that he has sent a letter with his food list and wants daddy to cook up all his favorite dishes. You have no idea how crazy the french are about food and what they eat. It is a real national passtime here, and i still can't figure out how they all stay so slim! In health statistics they always have an exception and this is known as the "French" factor. In other words cut down on fats etc. but the french eat a lot of cheese and butter and cream and they don't have the health poblems that other nationals do. it's called the French factor.
I have noticed with this young generation of 25 year olds and under that they do not drink enough wine. My children started drinking wine at gramda's house when they were about 5 or 6. It starts with a lot of water and a little wine and a sugar cube. As you get older there is less water and more wine, so that by the time you are about 12 you drink jsut wine. Not a lot, say about 4 ounces. But we always had wine for lunch and diner at my inlaws with our children, and in the states in our home most Sunday meals the kids had wine with us. Now in France the young people drink water or Pepsi and Coke with thier meals.
If we are working on the farm we usually don't eat lunch, jsut work throughout the day or at the most grab a left over. But at night we like our glass of wine with our meal. It is sad that the wine sales to the french populace is way way down. You are probably wondering if this early consumption of alchohol had ay effect on my children and the anser is no, neither one of them have any type of alcohol issues, they are aged 25 and 31, but they both do appreciate a good bottle of wine or champagne.
We had rather a french influenced new years meal, frois gras, caviar, smoked salmon garnished with sour cream, green onion and capers served on toasted slices of baguettes, then a big rib eye steak with real thin sliced potatoes baked in olive oil till they were crispy. I don't think we had desert. New years eve it was fresh shrimp, crab, skate oh and a delicious bottle of champagne. My husband really like to eat well and he relishes the excuse of a holiday to cook up a storm.
When my son gets out of the Peace Corps and visits us for 2 weeks in April he has told my husband that he has sent a letter with his food list and wants daddy to cook up all his favorite dishes. You have no idea how crazy the french are about food and what they eat. It is a real national passtime here, and i still can't figure out how they all stay so slim! In health statistics they always have an exception and this is known as the "French" factor. In other words cut down on fats etc. but the french eat a lot of cheese and butter and cream and they don't have the health poblems that other nationals do. it's called the French factor.
I have noticed with this young generation of 25 year olds and under that they do not drink enough wine. My children started drinking wine at gramda's house when they were about 5 or 6. It starts with a lot of water and a little wine and a sugar cube. As you get older there is less water and more wine, so that by the time you are about 12 you drink jsut wine. Not a lot, say about 4 ounces. But we always had wine for lunch and diner at my inlaws with our children, and in the states in our home most Sunday meals the kids had wine with us. Now in France the young people drink water or Pepsi and Coke with thier meals.
If we are working on the farm we usually don't eat lunch, jsut work throughout the day or at the most grab a left over. But at night we like our glass of wine with our meal. It is sad that the wine sales to the french populace is way way down. You are probably wondering if this early consumption of alchohol had ay effect on my children and the anser is no, neither one of them have any type of alcohol issues, they are aged 25 and 31, but they both do appreciate a good bottle of wine or champagne.
