A Big Bowl Of Happy New Year and A Honkin' Big Porkchop
There is a long standing southern tradition that you should eat pork (specifically hogs jowl), black-eyed peas, some sort of greens (I prefer turnip greens, but collards are the most common), and cornbread. They're supposed to give you luck, happiness, prosperity, and good health in the new year. I'm not sure which is for what, so I make sure to cover all of them ... just to be safe!
A New Years Day Feast
A southern tradition with a twist.
The New Year's Day Feast might be an overstatement, but it is a lot of food. It has a nice big, bone-in pork chop with a creamy sweet potato (which keeps The Picky Eater on board). It also checks all the boxes for the southern New Year's Day tradition of having black-eyed peas, greens, and hogs jowl, of which The Picky Eater is very suspect (she actually really liked the A Bowl Of Happy New Year). There's really nothing special happening here as far as crazy ingredients (no, the bowl is not crazy if you live or grew up in the south - it's tradition). It's really a matter of seasoning properly and cooking it perfectly (which you will do if you follow the instructions).
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