This thread has revealed a lot of people who have the appetite of a 4 year old and can't cook.

Or that people's tastes change overtime and the certain dishes rise and fall out of favor as time goes on.

If I'm going to use multiple meats, veggies, spices, and long cooking time it will be for gumbo, not black-eyed peas.

Black eyed peas and greens simmering now.

Will have some ham and boudin along with tons of junk food for supper tonight. Everyone is tired and doesn't really feel like cooking too much.

Tomorrow will be the big meal for the game. That'll be a brisket, pork butt and some spatchcock chickens as well.

Potcake said:

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If I'm going to use multiple meats, veggies, spices, and long cooking time it will be for gumbo, not black-eyed peas.

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This. BEP are garbage, right on down there with lima beans and pretty much all lentils in general.

If you have to season them up with everything in the pantry to make them palatable...hard F'n pass for me. I will make my traditional gumbo and enjoy an actual good food product.

Potcake said:

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If I'm going to use multiple meats, veggies, spices, and long cooking time it will be for gumbo, not black-eyed peas.

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Now you're gonna upset all these folks that are hell bent on eating their great-grandmas BEPs.

Canned BEP" are iffy
Dried BEP's are much better
Store bought frozen abit better than dried
Fresh out of the garden are one of God's greatest culinary inventions ....right up there with avocados and cilantro
Bro of Rattler grew some in his garden and shared with his youger brother
They are fixing to go in the pot ,,,,with some bacon

Love me some BEP's!

Black eyed pea gumbo

I posted a pic of black eyed pea gumbo. You can have it all.

BEP's and a can of golden hominy....a bit of bacon grease to saute chopped onions--- simmer a few minutes and a skillet of NO SUGAR cornbread.....high on the hog eatin',..Soul food!

schmellba99 said:

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Potcake said:

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If I'm going to use multiple meats, veggies, spices, and long cooking time it will be for gumbo, not black-eyed peas.

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This. BEP are garbage, right on down there with lima beans and pretty much all lentils in general.

If you have to season them up with everything in the pantry to make them palatable...hard F'n pass for me. I will make my traditional gumbo and enjoy an actual good food product.

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Can I get an AMEN!

Said perfectly...

One-Eyed Fat Man said:

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Black eyed pea gumbo

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Back to Africa, Sir. Black-eyed pea gumbo is an oxymoron.

BEP's are gross. They aren't good with anything.

I hadn't even heard of the New Year's thing about BEP's. etc. until today. Course, I was raised by wolves in the wilderness.

One-Eyed Fat Man said:

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I hope all of you are eating them today. Things could always be worse.

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Hard to imagine most of the world passed on them a year ago

If this thread is representative, is it really?

BEP's are nasty

I take the hambone from Thanksgiving's spiral cut ham out of the freezer and throw that into the pot with the BEP's, couple of chopped jalapenos, couple of minced garlic cloves, chopped onion, salt and pepper. Top each bowl with Trappey's. YUM!

I'm in

Y'all need to discover the Instant Pot - bag of dry BEP to perfect in 30 minutes. No soak over night, no boiling etc. I don't claim to understand the physics of a pressure cooker but it works. I add a pound of bacon, onions, celery, garlic, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, paprika. Perfection. And no risk of blowing up the kitchen like your Grandma's pressure cooker - for my fellow olds that remember those.....

We do it every year and have good memories. My favorite memory is taking my daughter on her first trip of clamming and surf fishing for perch. She was one and a half at the time, but says she remembers the trip. Wife had the beans ready once we got in from the cold with our great haul of clams and perch in the fishing bucket. Daughter has been an avid fishing fanatic ever since, can catch and clean her own fish.

Anyone still cook the BEPs with the dime in it?

My Mom did it, but we don't. Anyone still carrying it on?

Potcake said:

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Black-eyed peas taste like dirt.

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You ain't doin it right. I prefer BEP's over beans.

Gross

I got Melissa one for Christmas and she cooked ours in it. So far she loves the Instant Pot.

I love my IP for beans. Yesterday's bep had onion, celery, garlic, a couple pork chop bones, Bay leaves, and a can of rotel. Not much different than how I make all my beans. They were delicious.

Tomorrow's my 40th anniversary. I had extra black eyed peas yesterday.

I always substitute purple hulls for BEPs.

Try spadilly's recipe from the Houston board. Awesome stuff. We've had them 5 years in a row.

water turkey said:

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People not eating their BEP's are responsible for 2020

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Maybe you didn't eat enough of your BEPs. Or maybe a black cat crossed your path? Did you walk under a ladder? See how stupid these all sound?

KorbinDallas said:

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water turkey said:

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People not eating their BEP's are responsible for 2020

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Maybe you didn't eat enough of your BEPs. Or maybe a black cat crossed your path? Did you walk under a ladder? See how stupid these all sound?

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Or maybe he's just having some fun? Lightin up and have some along with him.

I started off by cooking bacon and eggs for breakfast. Cooked the bacon in one of my No8 cast iron skillets. Saved all the grease.

Then at dinner, heat up that bacon grease and used it to fry up probably 6oz of smoked ham leftovers from Christmas. Got that ham good and crispy, then threw in celery, onion, garlic, and crushed red pepper. Once that softened pour in a box of chicken stock and the soaked BEP's. Let that simmer down until the beans are cooked. Mash a few with a spoon to thicken it up, then simmer off the liquid until just right. Morning bacon to finished BEP's were all done in that No8 Skillet.

They were incredible. Had top sirloin pan seared with garlic butter with some fried potatoes and the BEP's.

Hey Korbin:

Lighten up Francis. Damn.....