Black Eyed Peas-- Recipe/Ideas?

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I need a little luck. [cheers.gif]

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Hoppin John sounds good!!

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Cakes: Black-eyed Pea Cakes Recipe

Salad: http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/recipes/recipe-blackeyed-pea-salad-142614

Salsa: Black Eyed Pea Salsa

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Our go to New Year’s Day black-eyed pea recipe:

2 cans blackeyed peas or equivalent cooked dried beans
2 cans diced tomatoes
1 lb Jimmy Dean sausage
4 cloves or more of garlic - diced
1 bell pepper - diced
1 onion - diced
2 tsp (or more to taste) chile powder
1 cup chicken broth

Break up and saute the sausage, garlic, bell pepper, and onions in a 14" saute pan until the sausage is done. Without draining, add beans, tomatoes, chicken broth, and chile powder and cook until you deem the mixture is the “right” consistency. Adjust heat by using mild, regular, or hot Jimmy Dean sausage. Hot is my preferred.

We traditionally have a pork tenderloin wrapped in aluminum foil and cooked in the warming drawer at 135 deg until the middle of the tenderloin reaches 135 deg. I then season with a Worcestershire sauce gastrique, Lawry’s Garlic salt, and Adams Malabar pepper, and then brown the outside in a cast iron skillet. Spinach casserole and deviled eggs rounds out the menu. We plan on having our latest wine find, a 2007 Lachini Vineyard, Cuvee Giselle pinot noir with the meal. One of the best pinot noirs that I have had in a long time and a steal at $65.

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I used the Lee Bros Hoppin’ John recipe: http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/jan/01/new-years-day-food-traditions-lee-brothers/

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Did my black eyed peas in the oven overnight. THey are fabulous. The pics didn’t turn out very well or I would post them. But here goes the quick recipe.
1 lb of Camellia brand Black eyed peas
3 smoked pork shanks (tough to find, but my butcher puts them on when he smokes his butts and turkeys, sells them for about 1.80/lb)
one onion cut into large dice
one green bell pepper
32 oz of chicken broth
black pepper
teaspoon of oregano

Place the dried beans in a foil roasting pan set onto a jelly roll pan. Pick over for stones etc.
Add the smoked shanks, the onion, the bell pepper, the black pepper and the chicken broth. Add enough water to come up most of the way to the top of the roasting pan. Cover with heavy duty Aluminum foil and put into a 200 degree oven. Check in a couple of hours and add a little more liquid if necessary. Turn down the oven to 170 and go to bed.

In the morning take out of oven and leave covered to cool. Pick the meat off the shanks, mix in with the peas. If you want hoppin john, add a cup and half of long grain brown rice and enough liquid to come back up to the top, 1 bunch of green onion bottoms, reserving the tops for garnish. Place back in a 275 onion for several hours or until the rice is done and the liquid has absorbed. Serve and garnish with hot sauce and green onion tops.

We’re having it with pan roasted grouper and some cabbage.

Appetizer of tuna carpacio