You've got to rinse dried black eyed peas TWICE real good before soaking.Everyone in my family likes Black Eyed Peas, except for me. To me, they just taste like dirt. Had a spoonful this evening --- yep, dirt.
Love it good stuff
Aint nothing wrong with a little kraut
Everyone in my family likes Black Eyed Peas, except for me. To me, they just taste like dirt. Had a spoonful this evening --- yep, dirt.
Lentils are really good for you throw a little ham in them or sausage
Probably doesn’t do home made justice, but I absolutely love the Swedish meatballs and lingonberry sauce at ikea. I’ll go to that place just to get it and leave.When I was growing up on New Year’s Eve we would have a bunch of traditional Swedish type foods. My father’s mother was Swedish. I gather this was a tradition when my father grew up.
We lived in N.E. Kansas and my father would go to Kansas City where there was a Swedish grocery store and purchase Swedish type foods.
Here is a partial list of the foods we would have New Year’s Eve. I don’t recall all the foods.
Lutefisk – a nasty fish that is preserved in lye and has to be soaked in fresh water to re-hydrate, then cooked in a cream type sauce. ( I never acquired a taste for – nasty)
Pickled Herring - Creamed and Pickled
Smoked Whitefish - Actually fairly yummy
Seasoned Rye Crisp Crackers or Rye Hard Tack
Various Cheeses
Potato Sausage
Swedish Meat Balls
Lingonberry sauce – much like cranberries, but smaller.
Various Pastries – my mother baked them from my father’s mother’s recipes.
I’m sure there were a few other items I don’t remember. We snacked all night.
The following morning my father would make Swedish pancakes with Lingonberry sauce and powdered sugar.
My wife is an Okie and we have to have black-eyed peas every New Year’s eve. (To me, about as nasty as Lutefisk) I am forced to eat at least a spoonful.
