caseydog
Master Chef
Hmm...black eyed peas (https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/213029/new-year-black-eyed-peas/) we had them last year. @Meryl I didn't know lentils could be a yearly tradition, where you live, then why not where I live.
Or split pea soup on new years. https://deliciousonadollar.com/2014/01/02/new-years-split-pea-soup/
I'm guessing at the time the black eyed peas tradition started in the South, lentils were not grown there. Just a guess, but a lot of food traditions changed when immigrants came to America a long time ago, because old world ingredients weren't available here.
Chicken fried steak was what German immigrants to Texas made in place of schnitzel. Beef was abundant while pork... not so much.
CD