New Year Dinner : Black eye peas cook up rice

yuuuummmm....belly still full !

salt beef and black eye peas cook up  :-*

Recall that black eye peas is a symbol of Good Luck !

Have your cook up rice so the New Year will be rewarding .

ancient guyanese creole custom !

I had mine  with salt beef last night 

                                   


                               

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To celebrate the New Year in the Southeast, it is most likely that you will be offered black-eyed peas in some form :

either just after midnight or on New Year's Day.

From grand gala gourmet dinners to small casual gatherings with friends and family,

these flavorful legumes are traditionally, according to Southern folklore :

the first food to be eaten on New Year's Day for luck and prosperity throughout the year ahead. :-*

excellent tradition.  I did not know dat!

I will get some myself..never to late to learn. 

sal' beef from charlies...and black eye peas and rice from the health food store
::love:: ::love:: ::love::

[quote author=mapoui link=topic=86519.msg541675#msg541675 date=1388682846]

excellent tradition.  I did not know dat ! I will get some myself..never to late to learn. 
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Great ! ....hope Meseret and Calypso remembers ....I do ! 

:o .....i didn't know about this tradition either!!

for new years dinner we had.......garlic/butter shrimp, string beans, brussel sprouts and vegetable rice (but no blackeye in it!!)

Belle, u might as well be Trini  ::LOL::


Mapoui , that Trini favourite pigeon peas is not as powerful as black eye peas  ! 

That means IF Belle dont know ...kwami will not either !

Sometimes I feel that GT is a different country that the rest of Guyana  :-[

My Mom makes the best Ginger Beer .....yyyummmmm

ah nearly swallow a clove  ::LOL::


I recall saying to her " dats a lotta ginger to peel ".....

and her reply was " what you gonna wash down the black eye peas with ??  :-[