HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

By Mama Wad:
Whatever you do, don't forget to eat hog jowls and black eyed peas for New Year's! You'll NEVER get published if you don't!

For you Yankees, hog jowl is basically bacon, a bit saltier than regular bacon, but yummy. We buy the sliced, smoked hog jowl, pat a little flour on it and fry it until crispy, just like bacon. You can cut it into pieces and use it to season the black eyed peas.

Or make Hoppin' John - black eyed peas, onion, hog jowl, Rotel, rice. Yum yummy!

God bless you all through the new year. May you be published often. May those who reject your work have itches in places not easily scratched.