I’ve been eating black eyed peas and cabbage every new years all my life. The black eyed pea crops were the only edible one not destroyed in the south by the civil war. I was told that’s why they eat them for prosperity. I don’t know about the cabbage.
Thank you for the bit of History Rusty. I think I remember now finding out that the field peas that they talked about in Gone With the Wind were actually Black Eyed Peas.
I didn’t know about cabbage until I went to the grocery store and the Checker seem to assume that I was buying it to have for New Years. I just like cabbage and it was on sale!
I’m not sure if we’ll have cabbage but I made my pot of Black Eyed Peas into a soup. Accidentally. But it does taste good. I think I will add to some pasta to it and end up with a Southern pasta fagioli :-)