Happy New Year!
Posted: January 1, 2014 Filed under: Dinner | Tags: black-eyed peas, burritos, collards, greens, holiday meal, Isa Does It, tacos 2 CommentsThough we’re not Southerners by heritage, we’ve been living in Virginia for 12 years and at some point during our time here we started honoring the tradition of eating black-eyed peas and greens on New Year’s Day. If you’re not up on Southern food traditions, the black-eyed peas represent good luck and the greens represent wealth in the new year. We broke from tradition this year though in how we prepared our peas & greens. We got ourselves a copy of Isa Does It for Christmas and as soon as I saw the recipe for Black-Eyed Pea & Collard Tacos, I figured that would be a great twist on our New Year’s Day tradition. The apple-avocado salsa is a great accompaniment and we may well make these our new tradition. Here’s to a healthy and prosperous 2014!
My mother has been doing this (black eyed peas and greens) for years. I just could never get into it. Your photo does look delicious though.
Thanks Alicia! This is definitely a different way of doing the black eyed peas and greens and we thought it was delicious.