January 2, 2026
Black-eyed peas are for luck or silver depending on which family member you ask. While you can eat them in several different ways, I always make them the way my family did when I was growing up.
Greens are for having lots of cash come your way.
Cornbread, a lovely gold color, is for having gold come to you.
You can tell this is an old tradition, started when money was mostly silver and gold.
I made my family’s traditional meal.
The leftover collard greens are going to be made into a hortopita, a Greek pie similar to spanakoptia.
I may toss in some black-eyed peas. I noticed in one of my Greek cookbooks, “Ikaria: Lessons on Food, Life, and Longevity from the Greek Island Where People Forget to Die” by Diane Kochilas, that hortopita can have pumpkin or zucchini in it. I also read that they use black-eyed peas in salads. So why not make this hortopita a Southern-style hortopita?
I’ll let you know how it turns out!
May 2026 be a happy and prosperous year for you and your family!
Blackberry Homestead 
It seems we were raised the same way. 🙂
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Your meal looks lovely.
On the 1st, I was going to eat leftovers. Neighbor Shawn brought me a jar of piping hot black eyed peas in a slightly spicy sauce. What a treat!
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How nice! Of them to think of you! I put Tabasco Pepper Sauce on my black-eyed peas and greens.
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I hoping to have whirled peas soon. Snorf.
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