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What are blackeyedpeas? Is it a christian rock group? Is it food? Is it something roman catholics eat on certain days of the year? Should Bible Believers eat them? Do you put blackeyedpeas in donuts?

What is blackeyedpeas?

A. Back in the days of the Wild West, Southern gentility, and Northern hostility, our celebrated blackeyed peas were used strictly for the feeding of cattle in the South. During the Civil War battle of Vicksburg, the town was under siege for over 40 days. No supplies went in and none came out The entire town was on the brink of starvation. So they ate those humble "cowpeas," thus starting a southern tradition. Nowadays blackeyes are eaten every New Year's Day to bring good luck for the coming year. All the way back to the days of the Pharaoh, blackeyed peas have been a symbol of luck and fortune. The superstition is that those who eat blackeyes, an inexpensive and modest food, show their humility and save themselves from the wrath of the heavens because of the vanity they might have. Blackeyed peas are neither a pea nor a bean. They are lentils.  ;D

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/vegetables/blackeye.html (http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/vegetables/blackeye.html)

Uh, well it is a band.... (but I doubt it's christian)

http://www.blackeyedpeas.com/

...and it is a food

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/vegetables/blackeye.html

but, in this case it's our harried moderator....  ;D

NopenopenopenopenopenopeNOPE!!!  BEP is not hairy!  He's old...er.  And older people are inherantly bald.   ;D

Great.  I'm bald...

Too late, I opened it, :eek: LOL, I am not bald. ;D

*SPEW*
I would amite that if I was you Allinall, but I ain't bald. ;D

...you don't look bald...

I am also older, and not bald  ;D (yet)


opened it? as in the worm can? Yum.

Well most women don't go bald. ::)
A woman that likes worms?? ?? ?? ?? now I'm  ???.

huh. well, I do know a few who are heading that direction....

(us hairy italians don't usually have that problem, though)


who says I'm a woman?.....oh, my profile; yes, well I'm a female fish (it's awfully hard to type with fins)   ;D

I would have though that, you being a woman (fish,) it would be easier for you to type. ;D
And I see I am right ;)
There goes one of my secrets, I look at profiles before I answer.  ;D
See I am Scotch-Irish, and we are a hearty bunch.

Oklahoma Howdy to All,

Sincereheart gave the most accurate description of black-eyed peas.   ;D  I don't know anything about the music group.

Black-eyed peas are a very simple, but delicious, lentil that folks in the South really enjoy. Yes, they are also known as cow-peas. There are tons of popular dishes that contain black-eyed peas. However, one of the best meals has black-eyed peas as the main course.

Here's one of my favorites:

You slow cook some black-eyed peas with some bacon bits and a touch of jalapeno as the main dish. One must add fresh cornbread and buttermilk for a meal fit for a king. We are talking about:


I would give more details about the cooking procedures, but I fear that Northerners might steal the recipe.   ;D

Love In Christ,
Tom

4 lbs ham - cured
1 lbs blackeyedpeas

Soak peas 8 hours.
Rinse.
Simmer peas on low 2 hours.
Chop ham into one-inch cubes.
Add ham to blackeyedpeas.
Season with everything you like.
Simmer until ham falls apart.
Eat a bowl.
Freeze the rest in individual serving size bags.
Eat everyday for the next 30 days.

On alternate days, add cornbread, jalapenos or whatever flies your kite.

At the end of 30 days, repeat recipe.

You will never starve - guaranteed!  ;D

Oklahoma Howdy to JudgeNot,

 ;D  Well, the price of black-eyed peas just went up. In fact, those Yankees might corner the market on them now.

Here's a little piece of trivia about black-eyed peas. They still grow wild in many parts of the South. They are very hardy and require almost nothing to grow. If you plant black-eyed peas on purpose in a tilled field and take care of them, you are almost sure to have a BUMPER CROP in the South. They don't thrive very well in colder climates, but there are some hybrid varieties now that can stand more cold.

Stop along the roads and take a look at what grows wild. I think that you will be surprised. However, it really shouldn't be that much of a surprise that God did provide nourishment for his creatures and man.

Love In Christ,
Tom

We used to walk up and down the Texas bar-ditches harvesting "lamb's quarter".

How many northerners know THAT secret???  (Shhhh!)

That sounds goooooooooood[/b]!!!  :)

If us Northerners want your recipe we'll burn a path down to Atlanta and take it.   ;D

My husband is from MN and I am from SC.
When we first got married, he had never heard of black eyed peas.
When I told him what they were, he said he'd never touch them ever!
I made bep soup and told him he'd have to cook for himself or go hungry that night unless he ate the soup. I promised him that if he tried the soup and didn't like it, I'd never make it for him for supper again.
He tried the soup and didn't mind gobbling down his words as he gobbled down the second and third bowl full.  :P
Now he requests bep soup at least twice a year in the winter.  :)

 ;D  UM?? - Some Yankees actually think they won the Civil War.   ;D

Sure is sad how disillusioned some people are.
Must be all of that snow, freezes their grey matter.

You ain't gettin' MY blackeyed peas! We stay armed down he'a in the South!  >:(


 ;D

's okay.....blackeyed peas are yukky anyway....ditto for grits - ickky and white gravey.....ew

Come on up here and I'll feed ya up right  ;D

I agree!!!!

Grits - corn soaked in lye (who would do such a thing) then chewed up and spit onto your plate.  Yuk!   :P

Give me oatmeal any day.

 ;D

 ;D  Those Yankees might be dangerous if they got a taste of Southern food, so don't give them any ideas.

I don't know what we would do if they ever found out about grits, fresh biscuits, and sausage gravy. They would probably drop their little English tea cups and crumpets.   ;D

I have tasted it....we spend our November's in Georgia and that's how I know....yukky (as my grandkids say)  ;D


they totally gross me out


100% FAT.....eeewww


...those are yummy, so are turnip greens, and spinach (course, they aren't exactly a southern invention, either)  :D


....I use a gigantic coffee cup, hmmm, speaking of coffee...the only decent place for coffee "down" there is the Biscuit Bucket, or of course the Waffle House....nobody else seems to know how (except I noticed in Ohio they've at least got a Tim Horton's) (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/ernaehrung/food-smiley-010.gif)

and crumpets are english...which I'm not. Now, offer me a good scottish scone and I might just accept...

and tea? hah...."sweet tea" is what they got and it has about a gallon of sugar in it....no wonder the dentists down there are, well... rich! ...AND it's COLD!
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Too late. Blackeyedpeas went North during the second world war when the South migrated North to work in the factories.

 :)

Thanks For the Good Info Sister :)

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Yukky? Yukky? What is wrong with you Yankees?  >:(



 ;D

We'uns chew our own, thankyouverymuch!  ;) And cheese grits are a brunch staple! You Yankees!  :o

You're welcome!

 ;D  nothin' wrong with us....we'se just got taste buds!  :D


...so are certain varieties of bugs in parts of the world....doesn't make them tasty or palatable. Grits taste like grit (of the dirt variety).

What I don't understand though, is why they are served at just about every meal....they remind me of "Red River" cereal, or "Cream of Wheat" (disgusting stuff, that - it's the next best thing to cement if you let it sit long enough).

I have to admit, though, there are, um, some varieties of food here that are enough to curl yer hair! Ahhh, my least favourite would be tofu (ick) and "gummy" anything is horrible (ie: gummy bears).....like trying to eat a rubber band!

Blackeyed peas are just great northern beans with flaws.  ;)

Look at them they got this big ugly bad spot on each and every one of them.  ;D

I was going to insert pictures of each to show the beauty of the great northern bean in contrast to the scarred exterior of the blackeyed pea but could make it work - can anyone tell me how to do that?

...kinda sounds like a lot of "great northern" guys I know - and a few southern ones!

Gracey  (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/lachen/laughing-smiley-014.gif)

...as for the picture thing, I believe you need to have it posted and use an [img] code to link it to where you have it (ie on a web page). I don't think you can just "upload" it.

Thanks that explains it (the picture thing that is - not the part about northern guys with big ugly bad spots  ;D)

nothin' wrong with us....we'se just got taste buds!

You'uns may have taste buds...... but they'uns are broke!


and white gravey.....ew

Now I KNOW something is wrong with you! How could anyone NOT like milk gravy?? That's just WRONG!

Course, now I know what the Civl War was really about!  ;D

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uhhuh....

but white gravy....that IS just wrong....it looks so....so ..... pale!

Gracey

Hmmmmm, I like my blackeyedpeas cooked in a pot with ham hocks. ;D

but white gravy....that IS just wrong....it looks so....so ..... pale!

Might be cause all the ingredients are white??!!  :o    :P

But it tastes so gooooooood!  ;D

Hmmmmm, I like my blackeyedpeas cooked in a pot with ham hocks.

Yum!

How about a Froferbridie?
My family participated in an 18th-century festival last month...we worked in the food booth, and one of the items on the menu was the Froferbridie, a Scottish meat pie. Every year, that item gets more fun. This year we had a retired school teacher stop by to argue vehemently over the spelling; three hundred years ago, no one definately decided how this word should be spelled, but people argue anyway.
One man asked what the "for fat brides" were.
Someone wanted to order a "fur pie".
Some called it "fluffy-birdie."

Mmm, those things are good.

I like 'em fried, like pancakes.

Grits - Maybe some melted butter and a dash of garlic.

YUM!!!

Grits, just like they are bep. No butter, garlic or sugar. >:(
Thats the way to have grits, least to me. ;D

grits?????????????????????

Up north we have a use for grits.  It makes our sandpaper work - and we can get them in all varieties but adding butter would not help.

aaahhaaa hah hah, ROFL, tee hee...yep! Exactly so...

Uh, Willowbirch....

You like what fried? The bugs or the grits? And if the grits, how can you fry that sloppy mess of white stuff?


Well, we just call em bridie's. They'se okay....on the other hand, haggus is just digusting, blech! So are sweetbreads  :-X

Sincereheart:

I suppose....but all the ingredients in my kitchen paint are white and it's not so good.

I did try it, but it's seems so tasteless compared to "roast" gravy.  ::)

 ;D Gracey
peace †

I suppose....but all the ingredients in my kitchen paint are white and it's not so good.

No, no, no...... The white was in response to "but white gravy....that IS just wrong....it looks so....so ..... pale!"
..... :P
'Course I've never tried kitchen paint.... ;)

Up north we have a use for grits.  It makes our sandpaper work - and we can get them in all varieties but adding butter would not help.

That's only BEFORE they're cooked!  ;) And I agree that butter won't help with the sandpaper!  ;D

You Yanks probably don't even like buttermilk biscuits!  :o

uhh, well personally, I love buttermilk biscuits (biscuits of any kind)....as my thighs would attest....  ;D

Now theres a thought I didn't need. :'( ;)

ROFL! Sorry!  :-X Well, at least there's hope for you and your tastes! Your thighs, however, may be a different story!  :-X

Aren't butter milk biscuits like dinner rolls except mealy and made from milk that has gone bad?

They kind of all lump together in your mouth as you chew them and stick to the sides of your throat when you try to swallow.

Kind of like the larva form of English Muffins I think.  

Yuk!

No, Michael, this time you are wrong. They are wonderfully fluffy....hot and flaky and smothered with butter....mmmmmm

If you've had the kind you describe, then the cook should be punished!


Uh, sorry, but I am workin' on it....I've lost 50 pounds (probably 50 pounds worth of grits, lol)

 ;D

 >:( Fort Sumter, here I come.......



 :P

I have no idea how to fry it. I've tried, and it just turns into brown slop instead of white slop. But my great-uncle fries it and loves it, and I like HIM, so...yeah, I like 'em fried.  :P

Woohoo! 50 pounds! WHAT are you doing on a food thread? Especially a southern food thread!

(biscuit larvae...now there's something I never thought of, lol!)

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Shylynne!
I'm shocked!!!!!

 ;D

ROFL!!!!
I am suprised at you. ;D Good job Shylynne.

Is that why grits are popular in the South?  ;D

LOL, I like grits and oatmeal. :-[

shocked and surprised? ROFL
I AM a farmers daughter!  :P



Piggys I knows bout
blackeyedpeas and grits ?
trough slop?  :-X

Ummmmm.....gettin' hongry!!!

Chicken fried snake 'n cream gravy.
Redbone gravy over buttermilk biskits.
Stuffed jalapenos.
Pintos with jalapenos 'n tomatos 'n flour tortillas.
GUACAMOLE!!
Blackeyed peas with fresh snaps 'n bacon 'n jalapenos, and a side of fatback 'n cabbage 'n jalapeno cornbread.
Deep-fried turkey.
Fried cornmeal patties with onion 'n jalapenos.
Home made garlic dills with jalapenos 'n cowhorns.
SALSA!!!!
Frijoles.

My, my...just put on another 20 lbs.  ;D

ooooh, my achin tummy....somebody pass me the tums  (http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/tiere/animal-smiley-042.gif)

uhh, you got any stomach left? All those "jalapenos", and what is "fatback"? Deepfried turkey - sounds like a dangerous pasttime...how you get something that big in the deepfryer?

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My, my...just put on another 20 lbs.

So did I.... just from reading it!  >:(



 ;D

 ;D  Evangelist

Ring that dinner bell, and we'll all come a runnin'.

YUM!

Deep fried turkey is wonderful. You inject it with your seasonings before you drop it in. Most folks let it sit for a day and drink in the flavors. Cajun style is great. WOW!

Finger lickin' - lip smackin' good!!

...gives me heartburn, really baaaad hearburn  ::)

Yep, plenty of stomach  ;D.........unfortunately, all 38" of it!! :(

Actually, it's the jalapenos that have made it possible....they burn up all the bad bacteria and other yukkies that eat holes in the lining of the stomach and cause ulcers....you know what they say, "a jalapeno (or 4) a day keeps the doctor away".  Hehehehe.

Fatback is similar to bacon, with more fat and less meat, highly salted and cured. Slice it into strips and use it for seasoning peas, beans and cabbage, or fry it until brown and crisp....usually requires several fryings and drainings.

Turney is fried in a special pot (about a 64 qt. size or larger), with a special rack. After seasoning (injection and rubbing), the turkey is put down in the oil (peanut oil is best, cooks hotter without burning), and left for x minutes based on weight. My, my.....you'll come back for more!!  Check at your local sporting goods store, or Academy, or even Wallyworld. You can usually the fryers. They come with a special stand, and a propane burner. Best to do the cooking outside, too!!

Did I forget to mention I love jalapenos? If you want an interesting treat, pick up some fresh jalapenos. Slice in half and remove the seeds. Lay out on a cookie sheet, salt well (garlic salt is nice), and bake in the oven for 45 min. @ 300.  Remove, place on paper towel to soak up juice, then refrigerate. Mix up some tuna fish with onion, pimentos, and dice in some finely chopped pecans, then stuff the jalapenos with the mixture. Makes a FINE nibbler!!! :)

Evangelist, have you ever thought that this:


might be the reason for this:

  ;D

...Sorry, I couldn't resist. I've fought the losing battle against the bugle all my life.


It sounds yummy, but I doubt I could get back into my clothes if I ate too much of that....and I wonder if my heart would rebel at all that oil.... (although peanut oil is good!)


Anything that has the potential to burn off my tongue is not going in my mouth....I like talkin' too much  ;D But I like tuna fish & pecans....maybe I'll try them in a pita.

Thanks for the ideas!

Gracey

Gracey said:

Welll.......I keep telling myself that since my waist size is the same as it was in high school (50 years ago), and my weight is only 5 lbs more (245) than when I played football, and although my chest has shrunk from 58 to 55 and I've lost a little height from 6'5 to 6'4, that a few more bites won't hurt  ;D ;D ;D........'sides, I only do the fatback 4 or 5 times a year ( or maybe it's 10 or 12  ;) )

Bugle: an instrument of anti-reduction

...and apparently I am not winning the spelling bees, either, rofl (also, I am sure I wouldn't have enough wind to blow a bugle....hot air, sure, but wind, uhh - I leave that up to my hubby)

I think I'll go now, lol

Gracey

 ;D   ;D  UM??, Sister, are all men full of hot air or just your husband?  I think that I resemble the remark anyway.   ;D

Love In Christ,
Tom

Hah!

I can be just as full of hot air as my hubby, but he's the one who, ummm, supplies the wind in our house, lol.

 ;D   ;D  I got it.

Thanks for the reminder - I need to start a pot of pinto beans...
 ;D