Happy new year!!
Good morning ya'll.
Mean Queen, thank you. And the same to you!!
We had our annual get together at a neighbors place. I love living here.
HAPPY NEW YEAR SADIEDOG!!! I hope it's a really, really great year for you!
My in-laws are expecting a whopper of a storm, I think it's supposed to run from tonight right through Sunday?? Well, make sure you've got your essential supplies, rent a few movies, and get cozy I guess!
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Guess it's a born-in-the-South thing cuz I have no clue!
This Yankee is lost?
Well, I'm not, but one of my FB friends posted that she and her family had black-eyed peas, cornbread, cabbage and pork last night.
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ETA: I also discovered last night - to my horror - that Chinese food down here is NOTHING like we would get in NH......How very disappointing....
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How can you go for Chinese food and NOT get a Pu-Pu Platter?!! Ugh.. We ended up ordering a variety of appetizers, but they still did not have Chicken Fingers, Chicken Wings, Spare Ribs OR Beef Teriyaki sticks!!!!!! I got Chicken Lo Mein, which was ok, but I much prefer Chow Mein and couldn't find it anywhere. The one "plus" that I'll give them was that we ordered Beef Fried Rice and instead of these little bitty pieces of beef, there were huge slices of the stuff and lots of it, which I was impressed with. But then again, this IS Texas.....
We never had the chance to get Chinese food while we were in Florida, but we get it EVERY New Year's Eve so we started looking up places here in our part of TX. Of the menus that I could view on-line, not ONE of them had a Pu-Pu Platter.....
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Hmmmm, now I'm craving Chinese food.
...the Tag Fairy toggled my tag TWICE in the last 10 minutes....!!
Yummmmo!!! We also had a roast, mashed potatoes and gravy, mac and cheese and cornbread. With sweet potato pie and babnana pudding for dessert. 
Good morning ya'll.
Amanda....We had our Collard Greens and Hoppin John.
kimmar....Congrats on the toggled tags!!
I love hearing about regional foods. My oldest DSs girlfriend is from Boston. So we had quite a discussion about food at the table last night. That was her first time eating collards and hoppin john. She wasn't crazy about the collards. But she liked the hoppin john. 
Hey SadieDog.
Hoppin John is field peas and rice cooked together. Except I never get the ratio of rice to liquid right so I cook the field peas with ham hocks for flavoring. Then take the liquid out and add it to the raw rice. Once the rice is done I just mix it back in with the peas. (ham hocks removed.) I make my banana pudding by layering vanilla wafers with a mixture of vanilla pudding and banana cream pudding. Then a layer of a mixture of cream cheese, a large container of cool whip, a cup of sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.(whipped until smooth) I do this until the glass container I use is full ending with the coolwhip/cream cheese mixture with crushed vanilla wafers on top.
I understand it gives a good flavor to food. Since I don't eat pigs, I buy turkey ham. I know, I know, not nearly as tastey. The past month, I have not been able to find it at Walmart or my local grocery store. It was always easy to purchase in the past. If I don't find it soon, I'm going to ask in the meat department. 
