How do you make a hog jowls and black eyed peas New Years dinner?

Question

I had this when I lived in Oklahoma. God! It was GREAT!!!! A traditional southern new year's meal, how do I go about making it? Especially up north here, there is no one to help. What else can I serve with it? Thanks in advance!!!

Answer 1

These are some old, tried and true recipes from the good cooks in Arkansas. If you don't like turnip greens, any other type of leafy green will work. And if you don't like that, fried cabbage is a good alternative. Our family is not real wild about black eyed peas, so we eat Purple Hull peas instead. Serve this meal with some sliced purple onion, sliced tomatoes, pickled beets, big pitcher of iced tea, and you have a feast! If you're feeling brave, try some fried hog jowl -- not the salt pork, but the real smoked jowl. Slice it, fry it crisp just like bacon, and chow down. MMMMM....good.

Black Eyed Peas
3 quarts frozen black eyed peas
3 quarts water
1 t. sugar
1 t. black pepper
1/2 lb. salt pork or hog jowl
a few handfuls of small frozen okra pods (optional)

In large heavy saucepan, bring water to boil. Add peas, seasoning and pork. Continue to boil gently for 1 - 2 hours, adding additional hot water when necessary. About 30 minutes before end of cooking, add frozen okra.

Turnip Greens
3 - 4 pounds turnip greens
1/2 pound salt pork, sliced
2 quarts water
1/4 c. bacon drippings
2 T. sugar
1 T. black pepper

Wash greens thoroughly, removing large stems. Tear large leaves into pieces. In large pot, bring water with salt pork to a boil. Place greens in pot, add bacon drippings, sugar, salt and pepper. Reduce heat and simmer, about 1 hour.

Fluffy Cornbread
1 c. flour
1 c. white cornmeal
1 t. salt
4 t. baking powder
2 eggs
1 c. milk

Preheat oven to 425. Combine dry ingredients, make well in center. In well, carefully add eggs and milk. Place about 2 T. butter in 9 inch iron skillet, place skillet in oven to melt butter. Blend cornbread mixture just until moistened. Remove skillet from oven, pour hot melted butter into mix, stir quickly. Pour into skillet, should make a sizzling sound. Bake 20 minutes.

Answer 2

Well, I've never had "hogjaws", prob. because I don't eat pork.:) But I make black eyed peas with smoked turkey in it. I rinse the turkey (use legs or necks or wings) and put that in a pot with chopped onion, a few garlic cloves and some seasoned salt, pepper, bay leaf, garlic powder and let that simmer with the lid on to flavor the water (ohhh cover the turkey with water) and after the water looks like everything has incorporated then I add a bag of washed black eyed peas and let that cook covered for hours..usually I do this in my crockpot...(also I add a dollop of butter to the water in the pot) Great Luck!!!

Answer 3

YUMMMMMMMM

NEW YEARS PEAS & JOWLS

1 lb. dried black-eyed peas
1/2 lb. smoked hog jowl
1 lg. onion, chopped
Red pepper to taste
Dash of mace
3 cloves garlic
Salt to taste

Wash peas and cover with water, soak overnight. Cook jowl in water until tender. Add peas, onions, red pepper, mace and garlic. Cook slowly about 2 hours, remove jowl. Slice and brown in oven. Season peas with salt. Arrange slices of the meat over the bowl of peas.


serve it with some nice southern cornbread

Answer 4

Well it's peas for good luck and greens for money! (cabbage for Yankees I guess) Anyway, peas are just boiled with the pork, which is to flavor the peas! But jowls, not me man, and I'm from Mississippi. Some salt pork or some ham for a great big pot or just some thick bacon for smaller ones. But now, my grandmomma taught me to get at least two serving spoons of the peas and mash them all up to thicken the pot liquor! Now that's good eating!

Answer 5

OBI is right-just follow the directions on the black eyed peas and add some smoked pork of your liking to flavor it-I like neck bones. Collard greens go with it.

Answer 6

Cook peas with any smoked pork, onion,,,Serve cornbread, steamed cabbage. I liket to serve a plate of tomato slices, onion slices, and sliced cucumbers also. I'm in TX.

Answer 7

My inlaws always brought blackeye peas over for New Years Day and said it would bring them money. Never did.
They brought plain cooked blackeye peas.
I would cook them with ham hocks, they are more availbable there in the north.
The longer you cook them the better they are.
With chopped celery, onion and spices.