You can use the leftover bone from your Christmas Ham (if you had one) or just use this as an excuse to cook a ham.
If you make and eat this on New Year’s Day you are assured of an entire year of good luck…for real! So bookmark this and make it on the first and you can thank me later…
Ingredient List:
2 cups or 1 small bag dry black-eyed peas
2 T butter
1/2 large onion, diced
1 Anaheim pepper, roasted and diced
2 celery stalks, diced
2 cloves garlic, diced
kosher salt and pepper from the mill
1/2 t cayenne pepper (or a little more if you like more zing)
1 ham bone with a little ham left on it
1 T Champagne vinegar
Rinse the beans under cold water and pick out any damaged ones
Place the beans, ham bone and about six cups of water in the pressure cooker, set on high for 10 minutes and then let the pressure come down naturally
let it cool while you chop the veggies
saute them in butter in a large dutch oven until soft, then take the ham bone out of the pressure cooker, remove the meat and cut into small pieces
add the ham and beans to the vegetables with enough of the broth from the pressure cooker to almost cover
simmer for about a half hour to let the flavors mingle and serve over rice
Thank you for you holiday wish – wanted you to know that the recipe of the cranberry sauce I printed out from your blog was a Christmas dinner success and got several nice comments:)
Thanks for letting me know, Jesh!
I’m thrilled it worked for you….
Delicious food that rich! Beautiful photos!
That must taste delicious !
That really looks good. I don’t have a left over ham so I will have to stick to pork and sauerkraut for good luck. Hope it works for us both.
Yum! Love the vinegar idea—exactly what my dad would have done. Happy New Year, friend:)
My neighbor makes me Hoppin John every year for New Years Day. Born and raised in the North I have become quite a Southerner when it comes to food. Happy New Year and many more.