2016 New Year Start

I'm not one usually for making New Years resolutions I just try to improve on the year before and go on.

    It is the family tradition around here though to eat black eyed peas and hog jowl. I had the peas and no hog jowl but loads of good crisp bacon. 

I had mine on top of a bowl of jasmine rice with a side of butter bread sprinkled with powdered garlic. 

   Hubby passed on the rice and bread. The best part of a good luck meal like this is that with all these starches it is garanteed a really good night sleep!

Happy New Years Everyone

Love 

Ranchmama 

New Year Start!

Figured it might be a good idea to start the new year off right with a good luck dinner of Hopping John an bite size hush puppies. 

My mother in law would remind us every year to eat our black eyed peas an hog jowl. Sometimes she would even go to the store and drop it off for us to cook. I guess she wanted to make sure we all had good luck! Lol

    Never made Hopping John so I had to look it up on the net. Hubby wasn't a huge fan. He wanted to make sure I understood I didn't need to make it anytime soon. I tried to inform him that this was a down south meal for country folks that didn't have a lot of money for meat. I guess that's why we have a beef ranch to make sure he has meat to eat!! Lol

  Some day I'm going to try shrimp an grits.

Love

Ranchmama