I never knew about the black eyed peas, around here it's always been everyone has to eat pork on New Years, supposedly because pigs only walk forwards, never back up? I have no idea if that's true or not, I'm a city boy, so if any of you farm raised folk can confirm or deny that porcine fact I'd be greatly obliged.
The NE Pennsylvania traditional new years meal is Pork and Sauerkraut but my wife does a lot of Hispanic inspired cooking and her daughters like it and were coming over so this year we actually had Pernil (roast pork) with rice and beans and Puerto Rican potato salad, and for desert we had an authentic Puerto Rican flan, prepared by a friend from PR who is visiting the girls for the for the Holidays.
It was very good, but I still missed my sauerkraut
Got to have black eyed peas on New Years Day. I forgot why, but the wife always fixes them with a big ham bone, cornbread and fried taters. Don't care much for them, but I always eat them.
I think I'd like to try the sticky bun things for a few years. That sounds good.