[Mercat]

We do it slightly different each year. This year it was the ham hock left over from Christmas, great white northern beans - in a soup with celery and carrots. Our son brought a can of black eyed peas and a cabbage so we added those. And cornbread.

[Yosemitest]

Canned?
Get your greens fresh, and your black-eyed peas dried.
Soak the peas overnight in good clean water, and slow simmer them, the nest day, with the salt and pepper being added in the last thirty minutes of their cooking.
Cook to the tenderness you like, and I use a little beef fat with them.