Welcome to the new year! Welcome to another black eyed pea dish to wish us all good luck for the upcoming year. We will need it with COVID staying firmly in the mix. For those who are new to this blog, I pick a black eyed pea dish as my New Year's good luck charm. [...]
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Greek Style Black Eyed Peas
Happy New Year everyone! Let's hope this year goes better than the last. Hopefully you have learned about building your own workout station at home. With COVID, it's a good excuse not to give the gym your hard earned money. Make sure who you follow is legit too. Anyone can say they are professionals, but [...]
Red-Red
This week's recipe hails from Ghana. This is a West African dish that uses black-eyed peas. It only has a few ingredients that makes a great stew. I started with a recipe from Camellia, which sells dried beans. Not sponsored, BTW. Red-Red is a recipe that stews the beans in a tomato sauce with smoked [...]
Vegan Hoppin' John
I haven't made our recipe for Hoppin' John for a while because we have moved to becoming vegetarians. Traditional Hoppin' John contains pork. I love pork, but there had to be a way to make a vegetarian version. Leave it to Connesserus Veg to get a solid recipe to start with. There are black eyed [...]
Happy New Year! Lobia for good luck in the new year
I wanted to start off the new year with a great bean recipe. While eating beans are a superstition that are supposed to bring good luck, I wanted to do them more as a great healthy and comforting start. I also did Hoppin' John and Black-Eyed Peas with Coconut Milk and Ethiopian Spices for the [...]
Black-Eyed Peas with Coconut Milk and Ethiopian Spices
As we get closer to New Years Day 2019, it's time to look at recipes that bring good luck in the new year. I did Hoppin' John last year. This year, I am again using black-eyed peas in a dish. Black-eyed peas are a symbol of luck in the new year. I wanted to combine [...]