This is our low from several winters ago. I don't remember it ever being that cold before they say it has.
Ham and navy beans sound good, @Joyce Mcgregor . I'm going to have hog jowl and black eye peas tomorrow.
@Shirley Martin Your meal of Hog jowl and Black eyed peas is sure to bring you Good Luck in the coming year! We Southerners know about that. I will also have a bowl of black eyed peas tomorrow.
@Shirley Martin Easy, now....easy...... I love peas and beans of all kinds, but jowls, well, not very much indoctrinated to such. The weird (I thought, as a kid) meals my Dad asked for, kidney, for example, taught me how his early childhood on the farm had showed their dependence on consuming the whole animal. Kidney, (whew, the stink was awful), liver, brains, stomach, "sweetbreads", lung, (jeez, I'd better stop). Sickening now as it was then. Frank
It is tomorrow now. I've got peas and hog jowl ready for the pressure cooker. The only greens left in the pantry is some kale and, of course, there will be cornbread too.
It is in the very low 20s here in North Alabama. To be 10 degrees over night. I am not a big fan of heat and humidity of the Southern summer but right about now, I would welcome it~ And my silly little dog wants to go out again. She has lost her mind!!
Here is a picture of my hog jowl. Looks good, doesn't it? With black eye peas...... My luck is all set for 2018.
They are saying we might get snow Wednesday night and Thursday. If we do, it will certainly stick. Everything is frozen, including my birdbath. I dumped a big clump of ice out and refilled it. If it snows, things here could get interesting.