Black eyed peas New Years tradition

I only remembered that the Mrs, from Chicago, introduced this Oklahoma boy to the black eyed peas New Years tradition.

But I asked her, and she said our she first heard about it the first year after she came to Oklahoma, when our then, and current , neighbor asked, were we going to have black eyed peas for New Years? We both said, what?

But Mrs is a master chef, and we've kept the tradition ever since. With variations in recipe this might send some folks here screaming, but always black eyed peas.

We have a new local source for the basic ingredient for our favorite sauce, NM green chili. I'll be adding a dollop of that. Helps make the luck flouresce.