Traditional Southern New Year Meal

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Good Luck Meals

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Collard greens. Black eyed peas. Cornbread. Bits of ham.

Dollar bills. Silver coins. Gold. Luck.

After the year I had, there was absolutely no way I was going to skip out on the traditional meal. The recipe post is here.

This year I had ham, so I chopped it up instead [...]

My take on New Year’s Dinner

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I cooked y’all (don’t have a heart attack!). Mama said she wasn’t going to, and I decided that I NEEEEED the traditional southern New Year’s dinner. Since I can’t make myself be “traditional”, I turned it into soup. Collards for folding money, blackeyed peas for coins, pork for luck, and I decided that [...]