New Year Traditions

Our family's New Year tradition is to have lobster for dinner on New Year's day. This year I also incorporated an old Southern American tradition-- and that is cooking black-eyed peas. The dish is simple peasant food-- cook the black eyed peas on New Year's Eve so that you could have them on New Year's Day. The recipe is very simple: cook a half pound bacon along with large chopped, yellow onion, and a clove of crushed garlic. Then add two stalks of celery (chopped) and two chopped carrots. Then add two cans of black eyed peas. It's great with rice and thus makes a complete protein. Great for the vegetarians in the family!

Black eyed peas on New Year's day is supposed to present good luck for the New Year.