TRUE LIFE SITUATIONS: MAKING A TRADITIONAL NEW YEAR'S DINNER
Thousands do it without any hesitation. They go and buy the ingredients and make a traditional good luck dinner every New Year's Day. I've seen where the dinner varies, but there is one basic food that's always dressing the plate and it's "black-eyed peas! " A menu of the dinner itself might include a meat usually pork chops, or fried chicken, followed with a possible rice dish, and sweet potato and or potato salad. The sweet potato is also a part of the main course. It could be served as pie, or a "pone" or slices in a skillet. Then some have the soul meal of neck bones, okra, or ham hocks. Some cooks go all the way with serving chitterlings! As more and Black Americans are looking to do better and healthier cooking the new meal may be changing its face. Black-eye peas is a main stay, but not with all the meat in the pot. Salads could be added; and really I could take away the sweet potato but it's not in my thoughts at all. It's a true life situation eating healthier on holiday meals has got a "stretch of a challenge to beat." Not yet.
Sound delicious Miisrael. Except for the okra. And I've never had neck bones, that might take some getting used to. And I've never had chitterlings believe it or not. What are they exactly?