New Year's Food Traditions & Another Recipe!
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope this day finds you recovered from last night’s revelries and ready for new beginnings. What are your resolutions or plans for the New Year? I have set some goals to meet including improving my diet and health, getting some more exercise in, and completing an educational goal 35 years in the making. New Year’s Day is met with many food traditions, as I found out in 1982, living in Houston, Texas. A friend of mine, Sharon Montgomery ( http://www.sharonmontgomery.com/ ) invited me over to her apartment on New Year’s Day for cornbread and black eyed peas – for health, wealth and luck. I’d never heard of the tradition, nor had ever eaten black eyed peas in my life, and never was much of a corn bread fan, but Sharon was a fabulous cook. After that meal, this token Yankee and adopted Texan was a fan and decided to adopt the tradition myself. Somewhere along the way, pork was added to the meal and I’m told it h...
