Our neighbor has us over every year for New Year's Day dinner, and it's always a treat, but "secret" until we sit down at the table. Two certainties are there, though: black-eyed peas and collard greens with ham fat/bacon. We get that every year. I'll have to wait until Wednesday afternoon for the rest. I do think Mrs. Nopics Ed is making a sweet potato souffle.
Wow. That sounds like a lot of southern tradition. Pretty cool.
Cheese cookie? Like Italian ricotta cookies?
Living his best aisland life
To that I say no thank you. I appreciate the info, but I will stick to either decadence or party food like wings.
Are there no traditional New Year Day menu items in Iowa?
Cut some onions into them, Trad. They're delicious.
I’m sure someone will say something, but it isn’t a vegetable.
Same place black eyed peas come from, apparently.
The trick is to slow cook in stock, seasonings and ham hock, then mash about 1/4 of them or so. They come out similar to red beans and rice and are deliciously complemented with a wedge of cornbread (fried undercarriage in bacon gease and a supple, buttered top).
Well, I've heard Iowa folk here talk and post pics about their beaches before, so let me just say, my mild interest has now piqued into mild attention.
Black eyed peas and collards with ham hocks and cornbread.
Any serious Iowan who has traveled would tell you Iowa “beaches” are an abomination. Florida is king when it comes to that. Now, we can swim without fear of being eaten, but our beaches suck. If you travel outside of Iowa to the Great Lakes there are sand dunes and beaches reminiscent of Florida gulf coast, but the water is cold AF, relatively speaking.
Oh I know brotha, been to all those states and have even witnessed rideable waves in Ohio and Michigan. Not that I'm gonna suit up and paddle out like the locals do. Those dudes and dudettes have a whole nother level of dedication that is not in these FL bones. But I will say, their stoke level embarrasingly inspires me and hits me in the feels pretty damn hard. Props to the Great Lakes crew!
It became a winter tradition back in the day because the cold allowed them to truck them up fresh from the gulf. Pap and Grandpap told of buying them right off the truck as they would cruise the small towns and farms on the backroads.
