Do you eat a traditional Southern New Years Dinner of black eyed peas, greens, and hog jowls?

Question

we have this every new years day

also cornbread

Answer 1

Yesterday I cooked Cornish hens, baked candied yams (real yams not canned), cornbread and wild rice with mushroom sauce. My husband and daughter tore it up.

Tonight i'm making NY Strip steak. Don't know what else.

For New Years, my husband will probably cook and he can't really cook soul food so we may just eat sushi.

Answer 2

Black-eyed peas for good luck, cabbage for wealth, and hog jowls for health! I am from Texas and my family had this alot as i grew up. Last year was the first time i made it myself and we had our best year yet! I don't think my mom used real hog jowls, probably bacon instead. I know "jowls" *(not jaws!) sounds really gross, but if you just brown it in a skillet and cut off most of the fat, it actually tastes and looks alot like salty bacon, not so bad! (you all eat bacon, right?)Then you use the jowls to season your peas and cabbage. For authentic sourthern-ness, don't forget to serve it with cornbread and sweet iced tea!

Answer 3

It's a southern thing, when we've lived overseas fellow southerners are the only people who don't think it strange. Black Eyed Peas are for luck throughout the new year, hog jowl is love and cabbage is money.

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Answer 4

Yes, every New Years Day my parents (southern) make cornbread, black-eyed peas, cabbage and pork chops and invite all of us over to partake. My mother always said "you eat a poor man's dinner the first of the year to bring prosperity and good luck." I, being a yankee raised by southerners, have learned long ago to not buck tradition. So, I eat it and like it! (-=

Answer 5

I don't know anyone who eats hog jowls. We eat peas and cornbread. If you start off with poor man's food, you have a prosperous year.

Answer 6

Yes I always eat this and bake a ham,cabbage and corn bread this meal according to superstitious beliefs is supposed to bring good luck in the coming new year but it also tastes great

Answer 7

Yes, we always have black eyed peas and cabbage; but we don't have jowls. 2D

Answer 8

Yes, but with a brisket, greens and black eyed peas and rice!

Answer 9

I don't think I've ever eaten anything traditional on New Year's. But I do have a tradition of wine, champagne and beer!

Come to think of it, maybe I have had a nice traditional dinner but just can't remember it...

Answer 10

Yes, I prepare a traditional Southern New Year's Day dinner every year. It isn't superstition as much as tradition. I have cooked for just my family and once I cooked for 125 colleagues who came from all across the globe. It was a success. In eastern NC, we cook collard greens (a tough, dark green which is incredibly delicious if it is seasoned correctly with ham hocks or salted pork and thick fat back) and some families do cook cabbage. We serve them with hot pepper vinegar. Traditionally, dried black-eyed peas are slow cooked with ham hocks which were cured in a smoke house. If you are fortunate to find fresh black eyed peas in the market, they too are delicious if prepared with some type of pork seasoning meat. It is like eating two different kinds of food because they are so dissimilar! We serve cornbread or if you are really cooking old-style, you make cornbread dumplings on top of the collards and their "broth" which is called pot liquor. Nope, no alcohol goes in! We serve sweet potato casserole (some of you call them yams) and yellow squash casserole. There is no law that says you can't serve candied yams or fresh baked sweet potatoes served hot in their skins with lots of butter and some like them with brown sugar or cinnamon sugar and lots of butter. I cook a yellow squash casserole or serve the squash steamed with onions. Others cook acorn squash but it is not as traditional as yellow squash. Additional favorites are butter beans, corn on or off the cob and deviled eggs. We serve a platter of mixed pickles- from sweet bread and butter pickles to Kosher dills. We will have white rice if we plan to put the butter beans over the rice. Another old style method is to cook flour dumplings on top of the butter beans. Especially good!

Now to the meat. The traditional was hog jowls which may sound bad but there is very little waste on a hog. It is cured meat and can be found fresh only at certain times of the year. In meaning it has been aged with pepper and other flavorings and smoked. It gives it a bacon flavor when served up. At most, we used it for seasoning meat. I unusually cook a ham, preferably corned ham which when not available, I will cook a fresh ham and a pork loin, both soaked in vinegar with a bodacious amount of black pepper and red pepper seeds. After soaking it is ready for a slow roast in the oven. The last of the dinner will include regular biscuits to serve the ham in. The little biscuits about an inch in diameter are used for serving country friend ham, one that has been salted and smoked for a longed period of time. These are served as appetizers at the beginning of the meal.

That's the meal. The superstitions are that you eat collard greens or cabbage for getting wealth through the year= the leaves represent the dollars you will acquire, black-eyed peas for good luck and "hog jowls for eating high on the hog". If the jowls are thick enough for serving then the rest of the pig is a fine pig and foretells a good, prosperous hog year. Small families could not afford cattle but even a small piece of property can support a family of pigs. Pork is a true stable for small farmers, as are crops such as feed corn (pig food), cotton, tobacco, and a truck garden of corn, tomatoes, okra, patches of collard greens and cabbage, snap beans, butter beans and peas- different kinds.