"Peas
for pennies, greens for dollars, and cornbread for gold,"
goes an old Southern saying. Food that could be in anyway connected
to money would ensure riches in the coming year. Why these foods?
Well, black-eyed peas stored well and were cheap. Pork was
slaughtered in the cold weather months. Pigs are a symbol of
prosperity is because they root ahead as they eat, as opposed to the
backwards scratching of chickens and turkeys. As for greens:
Collards, mustard and spinach rich in nutrients. Cheap, plentiful,
and easy to grow, they are flat, like paper currency, and thus
favored. Cornbread? Well any excuse to eat cornbread will do!
Despite
my own fondness for traditions from the kitchen, this year I'll stick
to my own mash-up of good luck foods, pork, spinach, black-eyed peas
and sliced carrots, they go together surprisingly well. Luck is
something humans have no influence over, but the solace we take in
cultural and culinary identity is. These rituals of eating special
foods remind us who we are, where we've been, and the ways we hope to
thrive.
Ingredients:
2 – 3 lbs sliced pork butt cut
into pieces
1 onion chunked
3 cloves garlic chopped
½ tsp smoky paprika
½ tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
3 carrots peeled and sliced
into “coins”
32 oz chicken broth (Low salt)
Corn bread muffin mix
On
New Years eve,
Preheat oven to 215 degrees
and spray a dutch oven. Chop the onion and garlic. Cut up and remove
the bones for the sliced pork butt, cover and let braise in oven for
at least 3 hours.
Remove from oven and add the
spinach by handfuls. Stir in as the spinach wilts. Cover, let cool.
Then refrigerate overnight, get
it out in the morning and set on counter for an hour to come up to
room temps and skim any fat that has solidified overnight.
Wipe out the slow cooker, spray
and set on low.
Peel and slice the carrots.
Place on bottom of cooker along with onions and pork from the dutch
oven.
Open and drain the cans of
black-eyed peas and add them. Make sure all is covered with broth by
adding any from the carton. Cover the cooker and let cook on low for
5 – 6 hours.
Fix your cornbread when the
cooking time is nearing an end.
What a feast! Even if it does
not bring fortunes in the coming year, you will have started things
off right with a wonderful meal to remember!
For our music:
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Serving
my Master Indy proudly
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
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buy slave's cookbook:
The
Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by Dan White
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