Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 13:46:26 -0500
From: “N.A. Booko”
Subject: I’m in the money . . .
Tradition has it that if you eat collards and black eyed peas on new years day, it will bring you wealth. Collards are the green dollars and peas are the small change. As usual, I didn’t have a lot of collards and lots of peas. Had never cooked them in the same pot before. But in this case, it saved time and propane.
I cooked both in a pressure cooker.The peas I soaked over night with fresh garlic, garlic powder, salt. The collards were a little old, but still useable. Lately I have have a problem with the peas not tasting salty enough when cooked. Cooked in salt seems better tasting, to me, than fresh salt. Also, I used to cook the peas for nine minutes, but lately that doesn’t seem to be enough. Twelve minutes did the trick. Had them for breakfast.
For lunch i had collards, black eyed peas, cornbread and butter milk. Nothing could be finer. A poor person meal fit for a king.
I bought another bag of black eyed peas. So I will be getting small change for a long while now.
N.A. Booko
N.A. Booko lives and writes in Chatham County and frequently blabs on the chatlist about cooking, gardening and blabbing.