Black eyed peas with a ham hock or hog jowls
Collards (pepper vinegar optional but recommended)
Cornbread with a lucky penny included in the batter.

Yum-yum!
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Beauregard wrote:
Black eyed peas with a ham hock or hog jowls
Collards (pepper vinegar optional but recommended)
Cornbread with a lucky penny included in the batter.

Yum-yum!
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This is best made as "Hopping John" which includes the peas, peppers,
onion and the ham hocks although my Yankee wife insists on just using
diced ham but the flavor suffers, She cannot cook collards so I depend
on the kindness of one of my employees wifes to cook them for me. I
make the corn bread (gotta be white corn meal). The saying is that for
every black eyed pea you eat on New Years day you'll make that much
money in the coming year.
As far as North Florida Culinary Culture, I am really slipping this
year as I have not yet had any smoked mullet although we did have
cheese grits on Christmas.

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The saying is that for
every black eyed pea you eat on New Years day you'll make that much
money in the coming year.

Would that be in pennies or C-notes? If it's pennies, I'm in trouble.

Max

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Beauregard wrote:
Black eyed peas with a ham hock or hog jowls

As far as North Florida Culinary Culture, I am really slipping this
year as I have not yet had any smoked mullet although we did have
cheese grits on Christmas.

What is mullet? I've had cheese grits in my travels.

New Year's Eve I cooked a double batch of fresh black-eyed peas.
Bacon, onion, garlic...not to mention my other special ingredients.

Cooked up some fresh green beans also. With bacon strips, of course!
Did I mention the cornbread or the ....fading

LP

Lady Pilot wrote:
wrote:

Beauregard wrote:
Black eyed peas with a ham hock or hog jowls

As far as North Florida Culinary Culture, I am really slipping this
year as I have not yet had any smoked mullet although we did have
cheese grits on Christmas.

What is mullet? I've had cheese grits in my travels.

New Year's Eve I cooked a double batch of fresh black-eyed peas.
Bacon, onion, garlic...not to mention my other special ingredients.

Cooked up some fresh green beans also. With bacon strips, of course!
Did I mention the cornbread or the ....fading

LP

Most people consider Mullet to be "trash fish" but it was long a staple
food for poor people along the N FL coast. Generally, it is eaten
fried along with Hushpuppies and cheesegrits and Cole Slaw washed down
with iced tea. Mullet is generally caught in nets and not on hooks.
Mullet roe is considered a delicacy by some but I wont touch it.
My policy on seafood restaurants is that if they consider themselves
too classy to serve fried mullet, I wont eat there because the seafood
is probably imported.
My brother in law started to fry mullet for Thanksgiving a few yrs ago
and we all think its better than having turkey. He always has plenty
cuz he knows how to throw a cast net.

wrote
Most people consider Mullet to be "trash fish" but it was long a staple
food for poor people along the N FL coast. Generally, it is eaten
fried along with Hushpuppies and cheesegrits and Cole Slaw washed down
with iced tea. Mullet is generally caught in nets and not on hooks.
Mullet roe is considered a delicacy by some but I wont touch it.
My policy on seafood restaurants is that if they consider themselves
too classy to serve fried mullet, I wont eat there because the seafood
is probably imported.
My brother in law started to fry mullet for Thanksgiving a few yrs ago
and we all think its better than having turkey. He always has plenty
cuz he knows how to throw a cast net.


Porpoises love to eat mullet too. I've stood on a bridge and watched a pod of porpoises
round up a school of mullet. They circle around and slap their tails and get the school
of fish compacted in the middle. Then one at a time they will break from the circle and dart
into the school and grab a mullet or two. I even saw one porpoise toss a mullet up in the air and
gulp it down like popcorn or a mini-snickers bar. Looked like he was really having some fun...

Cheers,
Ellen

wrote:
Lady Pilot wrote:
wrote:

Beauregard wrote:
Black eyed peas with a ham hock or hog jowls

As far as North Florida Culinary Culture, I am really slipping this
year as I have not yet had any smoked mullet although we did have
cheese grits on Christmas.

What is mullet? I've had cheese grits in my travels.

New Year's Eve I cooked a double batch of fresh black-eyed peas.
Bacon, onion, garlic...not to mention my other special ingredients.

Cooked up some fresh green beans also. With bacon strips, of course!
Did I mention the cornbread or the ....fading

LP

Most people consider Mullet to be "trash fish" but it was long a staple
food for poor people along the N FL coast. Generally, it is eaten
fried along with Hushpuppies and cheesegrits and Cole Slaw washed down
with iced tea. Mullet is generally caught in nets and not on hooks.
Mullet roe is considered a delicacy by some but I wont touch it.
My policy on seafood restaurants is that if they consider themselves
too classy to serve fried mullet, I wont eat there because the seafood
is probably imported.
My brother in law started to fry mullet for Thanksgiving a few yrs ago
and we all think its better than having turkey. He always has plenty
cuz he knows how to throw a cast net.

Of course green beans have to be flavored with bacon, they are
tasteless otherwise. Unfortunately, my yankee wife has never learned
how to cook REAL food although she can cook a good Rhubarb pie. She
found some Rhubarb in the store here and nobody else knew what it was.
If I had to live up north, I'd probably starve, one damned pot roast
after another.
When I was a kid, my family grew a lot of Okra ( I hate the stuff) and
some new sherrif deputy from up north who had never seen it before
thought it was some weird form of marijuana.

On 5 Jan 2007 08:13:30 -0800, "
wrote:


Lady Pilot wrote:
wrote:

Beauregard wrote:
Black eyed peas with a ham hock or hog jowls

As far as North Florida Culinary Culture, I am really slipping this
year as I have not yet had any smoked mullet although we did have
cheese grits on Christmas.

What is mullet? I've had cheese grits in my travels.

New Year's Eve I cooked a double batch of fresh black-eyed peas.
Bacon, onion, garlic...not to mention my other special ingredients.

Cooked up some fresh green beans also. With bacon strips, of course!
Did I mention the cornbread or the ....fading

LP

Most people consider Mullet to be "trash fish" but it was long a staple
food for poor people along the N FL coast. Generally, it is eaten
fried along with Hushpuppies and cheesegrits and Cole Slaw washed down
with iced tea. Mullet is generally caught in nets and not on hooks.
Mullet roe is considered a delicacy by some but I wont touch it.
My policy on seafood restaurants is that if they consider themselves
too classy to serve fried mullet, I wont eat there because the seafood
is probably imported.
My brother in law started to fry mullet for Thanksgiving a few yrs ago
and we all think its better than having turkey. He always has plenty
cuz he knows how to throw a cast net.


Until I moved away, every Sunday morning my father in law would wade
throw his cast net, clean the fish and fry up mullet and serve it
with fried green tomatoes and cheese grits to all family members and
friends who decided to show up. We're talking wading in January. When
water temps at their coldest, he might slip on a farmer john wetsuit
bottom.

Deceased now, he was the best cast netter I have ever seen. Could
get a perfect spread with a big net wading up to his armpits. And that
ain't easy.

Frank

Ellen MacArthur wrote:
wrote

Most people consider Mullet to be "trash fish" but it was long a staple
food for poor people along the N FL coast. Generally, it is eaten
fried along with Hushpuppies and cheesegrits and Cole Slaw washed down
with iced tea. Mullet is generally caught in nets and not on hooks.
Mullet roe is considered a delicacy by some but I wont touch it.
My policy on seafood restaurants is that if they consider themselves
too classy to serve fried mullet, I wont eat there because the seafood
is probably imported.
My brother in law started to fry mullet for Thanksgiving a few yrs ago
and we all think its better than having turkey. He always has plenty
cuz he knows how to throw a cast net.



Porpoises love to eat mullet too. I've stood on a bridge and watched a pod of porpoises
round up a school of mullet. They circle around and slap their tails and get the school
of fish compacted in the middle. Then one at a time they will break from the circle and dart
into the school and grab a mullet or two. I even saw one porpoise toss a mullet up in the air and
gulp it down like popcorn or a mini-snickers bar. Looked like he was really having some fun...

Cheers,
Ellen


Yeah...right...you mean you turned on the tv and watched a National
Geographic special...

wrote:
wrote:

Lady Pilot wrote:

wrote:

Beauregard wrote:

Black eyed peas with a ham hock or hog jowls

As far as North Florida Culinary Culture, I am really slipping this
year as I have not yet had any smoked mullet although we did have
cheese grits on Christmas.

What is mullet? I've had cheese grits in my travels.

New Year's Eve I cooked a double batch of fresh black-eyed peas.
Bacon, onion, garlic...not to mention my other special ingredients.

Cooked up some fresh green beans also. With bacon strips, of course!
Did I mention the cornbread or the ....fading

LP

Most people consider Mullet to be "trash fish" but it was long a staple
food for poor people along the N FL coast. Generally, it is eaten
fried along with Hushpuppies and cheesegrits and Cole Slaw washed down
with iced tea. Mullet is generally caught in nets and not on hooks.
Mullet roe is considered a delicacy by some but I wont touch it.
My policy on seafood restaurants is that if they consider themselves
too classy to serve fried mullet, I wont eat there because the seafood
is probably imported.
My brother in law started to fry mullet for Thanksgiving a few yrs ago
and we all think its better than having turkey. He always has plenty
cuz he knows how to throw a cast net.


Of course green beans have to be flavored with bacon, they are
tasteless otherwise. Unfortunately, my yankee wife has never learned
how to cook REAL food although she can cook a good Rhubarb pie. She
found some Rhubarb in the store here and nobody else knew what it was.
If I had to live up north, I'd probably starve, one damned pot roast
after another.
When I was a kid, my family grew a lot of Okra ( I hate the stuff) and
some new sherrif deputy from up north who had never seen it before
thought it was some weird form of marijuana.

Heck, I'm from up north and we had okra all the time...and instead of
mullet, which doesn't run in the G.L's, we fried smelt (yuck)...we also
boiled greens...and had chicken and pork along with the pot roasts...