With New Year’s Day coming up fast, I thought I’d share some of my family’s classic must have recipes for the big New Year’s Day meal!
First up is black eyed pea. These are a must for New Year’s Day on Southern tables. I make mine in the crock pot with a smoked turkey leg. This is a fuss free way to have perfectly cooked black eyed peas.
Click here for this Slow Cooker Blackeyed Peas with Smoked Turkey Leg recipe
Vegetarian Hoppin’ John version of Blackeyed Peas
Fried Apples make an amazing side dish and this recipe is a great copycat version of the ones you get at Cracker Barrel.
Click here for this Fried Apples recipe
Next up greens! In this post I show you how to make fresh greens from collards, but this recipe works for turnip greens as well. Also on this post, learn how to make that beloved clear hot pepper sauce that is so good on greens, beans, and anything else you add it to. For quicker greens, click here.
Click here for this Collard Greens and Pepper Sauce recipe
How about some of Mama’s Mexican Cornbread? It is so good it could just about be a meal in and of itself!
Click here for this Mexican Cornbread recipe
And there are a couple other Cornbread Recipes to consider:
Dixie Cornbread with Buttermilk
Hot Water Cornbread Recipe: Only Two Ingredients
You might also enjoy my collection of 3 Vintage Punch Recipes, which includes my Iced Tea Punch. Click here to see the others.
What are you most looking forward to in 2021?
I know we are all hoping for some gradual change to more normal times, but besides that, what else do you hope for in 2021?
I love hearing from you. Your comments are what make this a conversation!
I love this multiple post it is so handy TY
I am looking forward to learning more from the word. I need it so much. YHWH is becoming even more important to me each day.
AMEN!!!
We are looking forward to Hoppin’ Johns, collards, corny-cornbread, apple cobbler and sweet tea for New Years Day dinner. Gotta have all the traditions to start the new year off right.
My plan is to be as good person I can be, with the help and guidance of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
I’m also praying for a better year with my bank account. It always seems to be a struggle when your retired
Have a Happy New Year!
Was gifted with a country ham for Christmas. I am a 75year old widow and live alone. I took the ham to my local grocer this morning and a very kind young man in the butcher shop cut it into manageable pieces and slices. I have given some away and will freeze a few slices and cook the “hock” with blackeyed peas on New Year’s Day to eat with my mixed greens and cornbread. Never had a fresh country ham so we will see how it turns out!
Just want to say that I’m loving the study. Learning a lot even tho I’m not a new Christian. I’m finding that I read ahead and then re-read the day it is assigned. I’m doing other short daily devotional plans online and find the more I study, the more I want to. You are a wonderful teacher and friend, Christy. Thank you !
I hope you have a happy and blessed New Year Virginia!! I appreciate you being here and love having you as part of the Bible study. It makes my heart happy to hear that you are enjoying it!!
AMEN! I pray you are blessed in the New Year Joy!!
I’m just thankful that the Lord carried me through my breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. My life is in His hands.
AMEN! So glad to hear you are recovering. Pray the New Year brings you great health and many blessings!
I always make lentil soup for the New Year. I’ve never tried black eyed peas.
It is so neat to hear how different areas of the country and different families have such different traditions. I hope you have a blessed New Year Leela!!!
I’m so glad to see traditional recipes! It’s a shame to lose part of a culture.
yes! So much has been lost in my lifetime alone. You know what I miss most? The accents of my ancestors. Whenever I hear someone speak as my grandparents did it takes me right back!
Do you have a recipe for collard green soup?
Have been making black-eyed peas and cornbread every New Years Day for many years. Supposed to bring good luck. I like to think it does!
I like to think so too Diane. I pray you have a blessed New Year!!