Do I smell black-eyed peas cooking?
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Comments (7)I love black eyed peas too, but I've only ever had them reconstituted from the dry, bagged, grocery store ones. I will say, though, that pretty much anything that you simmer with smoked pork products, and especially bacon, is going to taste pretty spectacular. ;) I'm going to start another couple tubs of cowpeas this weekend, and maybe crowd them a little bit more, since I've read some differing things on spacing, and see which ones produce more. Since it's more or less just an experiment, I won't be too terribly heartbroken if I don't find myself drowning in a sea of peas....See MoreHarvesting Black-Eyed Peas
Comments (3)If you have the freezer room and want to try them fresh, try blanching and freezing them. Growing up, I only ate them fresh. Now that I have tried fresh & dried, I like them both ways. They taste a bit different - I think the fresh is the best. To harvest them fresh, you want to let the pods fill out before you pick them. If you want snaps, pick some when they are real young and thin. After shelling them, blanch them, and then put in quart freezer bags and freeze. Around here, most folks like to grow them in the fall since there doesn't seem to be as many bugs. Hope this helps....See MoreFirts time cooking dried black eyed peas!
Comments (10)Black eyed peas are delicious, either fresh or dried. A traditional New Year's dish in some parts of the South is "Hoppin John", which is black eyed peas cooked with rice, onion, seasonings, some sort of pork, and other goodies. Like all traditional recipes, every family has its variations on the basic theme. You can do a Google search and end up with dozens of recipes. It's a great way to cook black eyed peas. But if I'm in the mood for black eyed peas but feeling lazy, I reach for a can of Trappey's Black Eyed Peas with Jalapeno peppers. Mighty good stuff. (Trappey's is a company based in South Louisiana; their canned goods are excellent, but may be hard to find in some parts of the country.) Here is a link that might be useful: Hoppin John...See MoreHelp! Black Eyed Peas crunchy!
Comments (13)what an old thread! But, when it comes to cooking dried beans, if you have any acid in the liquid, it will retard the cooking. Lars mentiones a pinch of baking soda and it is likely that this changes the acidity and that may be why it makes sense to add some. I add that pinch of baking soda to my tomato sauce and it sweetens the sauce so much! Old beans will often not cook properly. I had a partial package of small red beans that I found and put on to cook yesterday. After a very respectable cooking time , they were still rock hard. So, I put them out in the compost . I know that they have been in the pantry just too long My MIL never did understand why her lima beans were always hard. It is because she was trying to cook them in a tomato based broth. If I am going to do something like that with dried beans, I will basically cook them first. Actually, I buy and use canned beans of one particular brand and keep a well stocked pantry of all different varieties and we use them on a solid basis. I know all you folks who will swear that your dried beans are better than canned ones. But these that I use are a basic bean from the can. If I were to cook them from dried it would probaby be in the context of making something specific like New Orleans Red Beans or pinto beans with ham hock and that is not a fair comparison to canned beans that are plain. I use them in so many ways! Butter beans are my favorite. They just need a good not sweet cornbread baked in an iron skillet....See Moreannie1992
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