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Black eyed peas with ham hocks, collard greens, macaroni and cheese, jalapeno cornbread, white rice, and a pork tenderloin.

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Had pretty much the same thing but ham instead of the pork tenderloin. Looks awesome!
 

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I’ve been wanting to smoke some beef ribs. Any other details? How long?

I cook them Texas style, just like a brisket. A very thick coating of fresh coarsely ground black pepper and kosher salt. I’ve done these several times, so I know they take between 3-3.5 hours.

I like them better than brisket.
 

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4C830DF7-E82E-480B-BCA8-DDE667EF4D9C.jpeg Wife’s having to stay with her daddy. 95 and health is really declining. I got put in charge of the kitchen. Threw this together after getting home from work. Roasted some skinless chicken thighs, saffron rice, Sedandy peas, and cabbage. It filled a hole.
 

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Wife’s having to stay with her daddy. 95 and health is really declining. I got put in charge of the kitchen. Threw this together after getting home from work. Roasted some skinless chicken thighs, saffron rice, Sedandy peas, and cabbage. It filled a hole.

What are sedandy peas? Google has removed that search from the internet.
 

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Sedandys are a variety of white acre / field peas, very similar to the cream varieties. When we were growing peas years ago, we planted a lot of the Cream 40’s. Those days are long gone and we usually buy 3-4 hampers and put them up. The guy we’ve been buying from has had the Sedandys the last few years. I can’t tell much difference in them and what we used to have. I don’t have to pick or shell them anymore and that’s important! I guess if Google removed the search, they must have been used as rations for Confederate troops sometime along :)

*From Bing - Southern Pea (Cowpea) 75 days — 'Sadandy', also marketed as 'Sa-Dandy', 'SA Dandy', and S.A. Dandy', is a medium maturing, " cream pea " type variety with glossy, dark green colored leaves, white flowers, on semi-erect, bushy plants.
 

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Sedandys are a variety of white acre / field peas, very similar to the cream varieties. When we were growing peas years ago, we planted a lot of the Cream 40’s. Those days are long gone and we usually buy 3-4 hampers and put them up. The guy we’ve been buying from has had the Sedandys the last few years. I can’t tell much difference in them and what we used to have. I don’t have to pick or shell them anymore and that’s important! I guess if Google removed the search, they must have been used as rations for Confederate troops sometime along :)

*From Bing - Southern Pea (Cowpea) 75 days — 'Sadandy', also marketed as 'Sa-Dandy', 'SA Dandy', and S.A. Dandy', is a medium maturing, " cream pea " type variety with glossy, dark green colored leaves, white flowers, on semi-erect, bushy plants.

My mom made field peas for supper as a kid but I haven’t had them in years. Maybe I’ll try some in the garden this year.
Shelling and snapping beans has always been something I like to do with the kids on the front porch. It’s our thing!
 

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My mom made field peas for supper as a kid but I haven’t had them in years. Maybe I’ll try some in the garden this year.
Shelling and snapping beans has always been something I like to do with the kids on the front porch. It’s our thing!
Sounds like how we used to spend a lot of summer evenings. I recall them being fairly easy to grow. Had to keep them dusted to keep the stink bugs out. A lot of the old folks used to scatter the hulls out on the dirt roads to “make it rain!” I don’t know just how well it worked, but it was regular practice in our area. That and hanging a snake over a fence if you killed one. Old wives’ tales!
 

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Sounds like how we used to spend a lot of summer evenings. I recall them being fairly easy to grow. Had to keep them dusted to keep the stink bugs out. A lot of the old folks used to scatter the hulls out on the dirt roads to “make it rain!” I don’t know just how well it worked, but it was regular practice in our area. That and hanging a snake over a fence if you killed one. Old wives’ tales!

Interesting old wives’ tales. Haven’t heard of those two.
 

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Wife’s having to stay with her daddy. 95 and health is really declining. I got put in charge of the kitchen. Threw this together after getting home from work. Roasted some skinless chicken thighs, saffron rice, Sedandy peas, and cabbage. It filled a hole.
I hope you put some pepper vinegar on them there peas.
 

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Yes, but it only gets used on collard and turnip greens!
There was always a row of peppers in the garden, usually rooster spur, cayenne, bird eye, and cow horn. Granddaddy would chip a cayenne up in his peas and butter beans and make pepper sauce out of the other varieties. He’d put a skosh on the peas and beans in the cold weather when the cayennes had played out. Always, always had to have the pepper sauce on any greens!
 

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