hopping what?
okay. this is going to be quick and dirty. hopping john is a dish of black eyed peas cooked with ham hock or salt pork or some other cheap and flavorful pig product, mixed with butter and rice, and traditionally eaten on new years day for good luck. rowan loves it, though maybe just because he likes saying it! at any rate, you can take the boy out of alabama (at 5 months old, yet!), and still…
so how do you make it?
didn’t i just tell you? cook your black eyed peas and rice with some ham hock!
more details please!
okay.
- take a cup of dried black eyed peas, picked over for bad peas and little stones (this is a product of the earth, remember)
- soak the peas in several cups of water for a few hours
- drain the water and place the beans in a clean pot with 3 cups fresh water
- add the piece of pig (organic please)
- cook for 10 to 20 minutes and then add a cup of washed and picked over long grain rice
- cook for another 20 to 30 minutes until the peas are soft yet firm, and the rice is good and done
- hopefully the water has all been sucked up by the rice and the peas
- add butter, salt, and pepper.
and that’s all she wrote!
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