Black-eyed peas for New Year's that is.
Yes, it's a southern tradition
that dates back to the Civil War.
Black-eyed peas should be eaten
on New Year's Day, don't you know.
They bring luck and prosperity for the new year.
We started with chips, salsa,
and fresh made guacamole.
A simple table set for four to
celebrate the beginning of a new year.
No need for a centerpiece as the
food will be the star of this table.
Casual Settings
Napkins of a Provencal Print
Ringed with Bands of Pewter
A Favorite Pewter Tureen
Whimsical Salad Bowl
Paired with Complementary Pewter Salad Servers
Black-eyed Peas and a Healthy Mixed Green Salad
Black-eyed Peas for the Coins
Greens for Paper Money
Cornbread for Gold
Perfect Meal for a
Lucky 2012
Dad's Black-eyed Peas with Ham Hocks
1 and 1/2 cups black-eyed peas
2 smoked ham hocks
Some salt port, diced
1 small can tomatoes
1 can Rotel tomatoes w/ green chilies
1 medium onion, sliced
Pepper to taste
Wash and cover peas with water. boil fast for 10-15 minutes. Let stand 30 minutes. Do not stir so that peas don't break. Add water if necessary. Add meat and simmer until tender. Add other ingredients and simmer until it tastes done. Remove bones. cut meat off the ham hocks and add back into soup. Serve with green salad and cornbread.
Joining
Looks like a great meal. I didn't grow up in the South, so I always forget the black-eyed peas until a few days after New Year's Day. Oh well. Your table looks inviting and delcious.
ReplyDeleteI love your pewter pieces, Sarah and your food looks wonderful...Christine
ReplyDeleteIn MD. corn beef & cabbage is the traditional first New Year day meal. Love different traditions. Yours looks yummy!
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Have a great week ~
Marydon
Nice simple table for the new year's meal. We had black eyed peas, cornbread, collard greens and pork chops...yummy and full of good luck! hugs, Linda
ReplyDeleteMmmmm...mmmmmm...this looked like a delicious way to celebrate New Year's day, Sarah. Our custom is to eat lentil bean stew .. that is an Italian tradition.
ReplyDeleteI love the little "ants" on your salad bowl..so cute!
Wishing you a prosperous 2012 filled with many joys and blessings.
Hugs,
Pat
I like the Southern way (probably because I was a college student in Atlanta once ;-) Bonne annee, Sarah!
ReplyDeleteVeronique (French Girl in Seattle)
Hi Sarah~ We were out-of-town for New Year's so I missed having my black-eyed peas! Love your pewter! Wishing you a Happy & Healthy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI have never had black eyed peas in my life! DH's tradition was to eat creamed herring, but I Irish fied him, so he doesn't anymore!
ReplyDeleteLoved seeing all your pretty dishes and serving pieces. Looks like a fun evening!
I'd take extra on the corn bread and salad, and skip the peas! :)
I love black-eyed peas. Thank you for the recipe and for inviting us for a peak at your celebration. Cherry Kay
ReplyDeleteLove me a mess of black eyed peas. Your table is perfect for New Year's. Love the pewter touches.. xo marlis
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ReplyDeleteYES!!!! Black eyed peas are traditional New Year's good luck food for us, too. Of course, we're from the South, so we get it! I love your table...those napkins are fabulous as is everything else!!!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas/Happy New Year/Hugs/Blessings,
Lana
I had heard of the black-eyed peas thing, and I do it every year. (Used to not like them, but have developed a taste for them in recent years.) I didn't know about the greens for paper money and the gold. I will remember that and choose my menu accordingly in the future! My great-grandmother used to tell us to wrap a black-eyed pea in a collard green leaf and put it in our purse to bring money year round. It smells to high heaven at first, so I have learned to make it up in advance and let it "cure" in the garage for a while before putting it in my handbag! :-) Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteThat recipe for black eyed peas really caught my attention. It looks so good, and I'm not a huge fan of black eyed peas, but I do eat them on New Year's Day. I'm saving your recipe. The addition of the tomatoes and Ro-Tel sounds like a winner. Do you ever make "Texas caviar" with the peas?
ReplyDeleteLOVe you pewter pieces. They're so beautiful.
Such a pretty table!
ReplyDeleteI'm still trying to imagine black eyed peas - I like my molasses baked beans!
Looks like a hearty meal and a lot of fun!
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I'm probably the only Southerner in the South who doesn't like black eyed peas! Now the guacamole, chips and cornbread I could make a meal of!! LOL! Neat tablescape!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Katherine
Such a yummy table! I love all your pewter! Thank you so much for visiting!
ReplyDeleteOh Sarah what a delightful post on your diner party. I share the same tradition, cooking black-eyed peas for New Years. I learned this from my mom early on. I have to tell you I served up peas and cornbread too. Your recipe sounds and looks delicious. The starter course looks beautiful in your serving dish with such pretty colors. I love the casual table and lovely floral pattern on the pottery. The print and color on the napkins works beautifully with the pottery and Pewter. The tureen and ladle are gorgeous! One thing I would love to have a collection of. Your guests were delighted I'm sure……and very lucky!
ReplyDeleteBest wishes for a wonderful New Year dear friend.
~Emily
The French Hutch
Yum yum! We had our black eyed peas too. My mom always insisted on cabbage for money. None of my bunch eat cabbage. Maybe I should have made some anyway if it really does bring money!
ReplyDeleteHope your new year is off to a great start!
Lovely table setting! I love black-eyed peas and cornbread. Do you put sugar in your cornbread? I make mine with buttermilk, bacon drippings and no sugar. Thank you for sharing your feast!
ReplyDeleteAudrey
Love your silver and pewter pieces! And the meal looks yummy!
ReplyDeleteEverything is just so cute:)
ReplyDeleteI never knew about the black eyed peas tradition, until this year, thanks to the brilliant blog ladies out there keeping the traditions alive. Great job! CJ
ReplyDeleteLooks like you got things just right for a lucky new year, Sarah! We substituted cabbage for the salad, but otherwise, we had the same menu. I love all your pewter! Thank you for your kind comments on my posts!
ReplyDeleteI love your Southern New Year's Celebration! And your casual table is the perfect touch. At this Northern German table - we have to have the sauerkraut and cabbage. No matter what our stomach tells us!
ReplyDeleteWhen you described this dinner over the phone I was salivating, now I've seen the the finished dishes I insist you send some over tout suite!
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I'm going to have to live with what ever luck comes my way without the help of black-eyed peas. Yuck! I hope not being from the South will negate the worst of the bad luck for me. ☺
ReplyDeleteIf presented with the choice of Southern black-eyed peas or Haggis for Hogmanay I'd probably have to go with the peas. Where do people come up with such weird things for New Years? I think I'll stick to caviar and Champagne.
Your food looks so gooooood!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Looks so yummy, Sarah! We had our collards and peas, too! Can't hurt! Happy New Year!...hugs...Debbie
ReplyDeleteI've never heard greens for paper money, but it makes sense. I will try to do that from now on.
ReplyDeleteI did a post about Texas Caviar as a way to get in your black eye peas for New Years. That's my favorite way of eating them.
By the way, I am visiting your blog after you left a very sweet comment on ours. Thank you for visiting us. I am glad I dropped by. We will be following your blog now. *love * the name.
Eldarose from http://re-inventedstyle.blogspot.com
Hi Sarah! Yummy! That's the kind of meal we have for New Year's Day, except the guacamole and salsa. I love that idea! Your dishes and serving pieces are so cute and those napkins! Love 'em! ;)
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Shelia ;)
Looks like you Southerners sure know how to usher in a New Year in style.
ReplyDeleteEverything look just beautifully wonderful.
God bless and have yourself a fantastic 2012 sweetie!!! :o)
How creative! And yummy! Those blackeyed peas look so good!
ReplyDeleteI'm always surprised to see what everyone does for holiday eating in different parts of the world, and the reasons behind what they do! The lesson is very interesting!
Thanks again for joining the party!
Blessings, Doni
Your setting was beautiful and the black eyed peas sound yummy! We had lentil soup.....which is also suppose to bring wealth....fingers crossed!
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Penny
Sarah,
ReplyDeleteJust an absolutely perfect meal for New Year's. We had 13 bean soup with black eyed peas! Love that you had a green salad and cornbread too! Makes me want to go home to the south!
Thanks fro sharing!
Happy New Year!
Miss Bloomers
Sarah! What a cute table. I love your pewter pieces and your soup bowls. We made sure we had black-eyed peas in our Hoppin John along with collard greens and corn bread --- here's wishing for a most wonderful year of 2012!
ReplyDeleteOh yes, gotta have those black-eyes peas.....and here in the south the collard greens to go with them!
ReplyDeleteLove the table setting - that salad bowl is delightful - bet you get many comments on that when serving company Sarah.
Well here's to all that prosperity eating the right things should bring...............but also to good health and much happiness for all in 2012.
Hugs - Mary
Sounds like a yummy meal to share with family and friends. Happy new year.
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A lucky, and tasty start to a new year!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Sarah!
xo Cathy
Your recipe for black eyed peas sounds fabulous! It would not be New Year's Day if we did not have our black eyed peas! A must!
ReplyDeleteI just pinned your recipe. I have not served Black Eyed Peas because I didn't have a good recipe. Your's looks terrific. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing.
Happy New Year!
~Liz
Hope you have a wonderful new year! Love your dishes and black eyed peas recipe! Sounds yummie!
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Sarah, This is the first time in years we didn't have the traditional New Years meal. Your black eye peas sound delicious and the bowl with ants is adorable.
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Sherry
Great to have you be a part of Seasonal Sundays. Love those dishes and napkins.
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You meal looks delicious. I love the napkins and the pewter. Dianne
ReplyDeleteHi, Sarah. Thanks for visiting--brought me to your lovely blog. I didn't know about black-eyed peas for new year's! My MIL taught me about pork and sauerkraut, so that's what we have, but I'm always open to trying something new! And that pewter tureen....gorgeous! ~Zuni
ReplyDeleteLove your pretty napkins Sarah and the black eyed peas sound great! I went with pork and sauerkraut this New Year's. Happy 2012:@)
ReplyDeleteGood morning Sarah!
ReplyDeleteOh my YES!! Gotta have the black-eyed peas and corn bread. We added pork chops (so we could eat "high on the hog" all year) and cabbage for the "green"...I love me "some" Southern traditions!!
Your meal looked great...makes me want to do a REpeat...thanks for sharing!
Here's hoping that 2012 will be a wonderful year for you and yours!
Ooo, Sarah . . . I had my black-eyed peas . . . it wouldn't be January 1st without 'em! Thanks for sharing your beautiful blues.
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Oh Yum! Everything looks so good! Love the pewter pieces and the pretty linens. Happy Blue Monday!
ReplyDeleteWe just had bean soup yesterday.
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Happy New Year and Happy blue Monday. lovely arrangement and the beans looks good
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What a fantastic spread for New Years, everything looks SOOO good. Your table is beautiful. Happy New Year and Blue Monday.
ReplyDeleteAnn
I like the sound of this recipe - I'll have to try it! Happy New Year. Sally
ReplyDeleteOh, yum!!! Getting hungry here:)
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Sounds like a pea soup that I would love. I think it is so fun to have a simple traditional meal like this that represents good luck. Your pewter tureen is just outstanding. I also wish you good luck and good fortune in 2012! We need it don't we?
ReplyDeleteYou started the year out right! Those peas look scrumptious!
ReplyDeleteAnd, you always have the most delightful table setting.
Rhonda
Your black-eyed peas looks some kind of good. I hope that they bring you a very lucky year!
ReplyDeleteSarah, we had our black eyed peas, cornbread and cabbage. I hope we all have good luck in 2012. Love those napkins and the pretty pewter napkin rings, and what pretty salad servers. Thank you so much for posting my party button. laurie
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun party. Happy new year!!!
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Kram Pia
Definitely Southern! It's blackeyed peas and cabbage for us on New Years, usually accompanied by sweet potato casserole and ham!
ReplyDeleteLove your pewter and the cute bowl with the ants running around!
(Popping in from Rednesday)
Sarah, this looks wonderful! I love black eyed peas and you have everything so beautifully displayed.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Barb
Hi Sarah!
ReplyDeleteI got a kick out of reading about your New Year traditions as well as some in the comments. I think I'll pass on tucking those peas in my purse, though. LOL I've actually never EATEN black eyed peas. I may have to try your recipe soon.
Hope things are going well for you.
Any special plans for celebrating your birthday this month??
hugs,
Rett
Hi Miss Sarah! Hope your New year is going well. My near and dear Southern friend had us over for New years day, and of course black eyed peas where on the menu. I never had them before, but I LOVED them. She made friend southern pork chops, and collards to go along..oh and of course corn bread too. OH my it was delish! Your meal looks scrumptious too!
ReplyDeleteOh I love bean soup. WE always have black-eyed peas for new years. Yes, it is a southern thing and one that you just have to have. Great recipe. Hugs, Marty
ReplyDeleteGreat post Sarah but you know you spelled "thing" wrong. It's actually "thang". :) I almost forgot the black eyed peas on New Year's day 'cause the other half decided he wanted a steak to start the new year instead of our usual fare. I did remember though and made a combo of the black eyed peas, snaps and rice. Not bad! :) Happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteAs always, your table is adorable.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't miss eating black-eyes on NY's day for a million dollars. I gotta do all I can do to get the good luck. :))
xoxo bj
I love black-eye peas for new years! We usually have that with collards, corn bread, rice and a meat! And of course sweet tea! Yours looks wonderful - making me hungry - Thank you for sharing with Home and Garden Thursday,
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What a wonderful spread! We had black eyed peas on NY's day too. They were so good, and made me realize that I don't know why I only make them on New Years! I used organic peas (beans;) and they were wonderful. Beans and jalapeno cornbread- my favorite!
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Happy new year to you! I love the pewter serving pieces!!
ReplyDeleteSarah-Finally had time to browse through your blog. It is wonderful. Love, Stephanie
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, dear Sarah.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I can recall, I have had black-eyed peas, collard greens, fresh pork and cornbread every New Year's Day of my life.
And, it is always delicious!!!
Just popping in. Haven't visited you for a while and wanted to say Happy New Year! You meal looks lovely and the recipe for Black-Eyed Peas hearty and healthy. Wishing you the best in 2012.
ReplyDeleteHi sweet Sarah! Oh, those black eyed peas are still looking yummy to me! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for popping in to see me and I'll be looking forward to seeing your blues.
Be a sweetie,
shelia ;)
Hi lovely lady.
ReplyDeleteHow did I miss your New Years Eve party. It seems like my Tablescapes take a lot of work. I do try to get back to ever one with a comment. Looks like you and your family all had a great time !!! Good for you and I hope you have a wonderful New Year from my home to yours sweet lady.
XXOOO Diane
This sounds really delish, Sarah! I know we would love it as it's a little spicy....yum!
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