Since I have never taken much stock in the old Southern tradition of cooking black-eyed peas (with greens and hog jowls...) to encourage good fortune in the coming year, I decided to make a pot of Streit's Variety Vegetable soup with green and yellow peas, barley, mushrooms, onions, carrots, canola oil, natural flavor and turmeric. The box said: "No MSG Added... No Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Added... No Hydrogenated Vegetable Shortening... Contains No Meat Or Dairy Products..."
...pretty innocuous, and very easy to boot: After only 45 minutes I was enjoying a hot, tasty and (mostly) nutritious meal.
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| A new tradition is born |
There was also a container of old, dried uncooked beans that had been violated some time ago by little moths, which forced me to banish them to the back porch until I got around to tossing them outside for the critters to eat (which I never did), and so I picked out seven perfectly edible black-eyed "field" peas and threw them into the pot as well, for good luck (Yes, those old habits do die hard, even at the stroke of midnight).
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| Happy New Year, Planet Earth, with love |
So I wish you, one and all, a happy, healthy New Year, as I share some sentiments from wiser folk:
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
~Author Unknown
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
~Bill Vaughan
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
~Author Unknown
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.
~Michael Josephson
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
2 comments:
Soup - it combines all these different healthy ingredients, right? Sort of like New Year's - tossing all of our healthy intentions into the pot and hoping we come out with something tasty and good! Happy Soup...er...New Year!
exactly! what a wonderful analogy - i never know whether or not to comment on comments, but thanks for stopping by and leaving such a good one! Happy New Year - TJBG
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