New Year's Black Eyed Peas

Inexplicably difficult item to photograph

Since we're Southern, we had to have black eyed peas on New Year's Day to guarantee good luck in the new year.  We made tacos with the leftover roast from Friday night, so we had to make the black eyed peas conform to the ethnicity of the rest of the dinner by making them into Mexican black eyed peas.  Here's how we did it.

Merry Christmas Dinner

Merry Christmas!  I hope you're enjoying a dinner as tasty as ours.  On the menu today is Mom's pineapple brown sugar ham, cornbread dressing, bing cherry salad, corn casserole, and green bean casserole.  All the recipes will be up once I'm out of my food coma, which will likely be tomorrow.

Merry Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!  I hope you all have plans to spend time with your families today.

At the Lindsey house, we will begin our traditional family activities tonight with our annual "appetizer dinner," a tradition that started when Jason and I had one of our typical arguments over the appetizer to be served on Christmas Eve several years ago.  In an effort to appease both of us, Mom prepared both appetizers, which were eaten in mass quantities while the entree went largely untouched.  Since then, we have had a dinner that consists only of appetizers every Christmas Eve.

Tonight's menu isn't terribly exciting, but the three of us enjoy it immensely.  We'll be having sausage balls, little smokies, pimento cheese, deviled eggs, and an assortment of Christmas candies.  I'll post pictures and recipes once the food is prepared.

Enjoy your day!

Family Cookbook

After six months of hard work and collaboration with my aunts, uncles, and cousins, Mom has completed the Dowling-Spears-Lindsey family cookbook.  It includes four generations of our family's favorite dishes.  From the raisin pie my grandmother always made for her father on his birthday to the baked chile rellenos I concocted to fill the void left by the unavailability of Trader Joe's chile rellenos microwave dinner, there is a little bit of everything in this book.  At some point, most of the recipes that are in it will be included on this blog.  However, if you'd like to order one for yourself, here's the link where you can purchase it.  Mom will receive no money from your purchase, so you shouldn't feel any pressure to buy one.  If you do decide to purchase one, enjoy!