The Bulgar Bugle

Anyone of a culture that derives from the American South knows the absolute importance of eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day.  Here’s an easy and very tasty way to start the New Year out right that is a bulgarish twist on the traditional “Hoppin’ John recipe.

Before you go out to party on New Year’s Eve, take out your crock pot, and fill it with:

• 1 lb dried black-eyed peas
• 1 cup uncooked bulgar
• Ham bone or chunks of ham or a hamhock or two or some bacon and/or enough broth or stock to fill the pot
• Seasonings to taste — I always add sauteed garlic and onions and my infamous Habanero sauce.

Turn the crockpot on low, cover, and leave it on overnight.  In the morning you wil have wonderfully seasoned, tender, black-eyed peas and bulgar.  If you have some frozen cooked greens in your freezer, heat them up and stir them in with the cooked peas and bulgar and you will double your abundance in 2009, since greens are another Southern tradition for New Year’s eatin’.

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