I hear our store manager has been out on the porch some

Working with his pits?

That's right...

Got a few more to finish by Christmas.

Hey JJ, do you sell them? Or, would you rather not say because you'd get a gazillion orders? LOL!

Yep, that comes right after Brazillian.

Christmas dinner was quiet.  Just the two of us so we did herb crusted prime rib and baked potatoes 

Tonight.....garlic bread pizza, homemade. YUM!

We have been frying for over an hour. We're frying potatoes, mushrooms, zuccini, hush puppies, Sac au Lait [Crappie] and shrimp. The girls are doing the cooking, I am so proud. They ask a cooking question every.......now and then.

That's making me hungry.

Too tired and sick to cook...

Made Donnie a BBQ yesterday.  He will eat the rest tonight I guess

Ooo, Bojangles', I LOVE Bojangles'!!!  

Gonna have Jersey Mike's subs tonight! GREAT subs!

Wow, Bojangles, that's a resturant chain that is not around here. Sounds good, fried chicken is one of my favorites.

Spicy fried chicken! 

made speg and meatballs tonight.  Also made a big pot of blackeyed peas and a pot of greens.  Can not have a new year with out em

I had broth.

We were just talking about the tradition of blackeye peas, cabbage or greens, cornbread for new years and what each dish represented.

Our New Years tradition is pork and sauerkraut.

Robert,  we always have pork chops, black eyed peas, greens and cracklin cornbread on New Years day.

Traditionally they are supposed to represent---

The pork is symbolic of progress and prosperity because the pig is the only animal that eats while it is moving forward.

Black eyed peas symbolize good luck. There are several stories around as to why. The one I have heard most is that when Savannah was burned to the ground, the people suffered great deprivation, and then, luckily, a huge barrel of black-eyed peas was discovered and the black-eyed peas kept the population from starving until more food could be had. 

(Mom always said they represent our pennies.)

The collards are green (and our dollar is still green, and the rest of the money is still mostly green) - prosperity.

The cracklin cornbread?  I don't know a reason other that it was my mothers recipe and a favorite of mine.

How do you all cook Black eyed peas? I've never liked them. Sometimes it all in how things are cooked. Also how do you all cook collard greens?

Pork and sweet potatoes, and broccoli casserole.....and GRAVY!

Pork chop sandwich for supper, last night.

Hoppin Johns for lunch today...

Greens are sooooo easy to cook Craig.  Clean them, strip out the stems.  Get the water ready.  a small touch of brown sugar, a ham hock, some salt and pepper,onion and garlic powders in chicken broth.  put the clean greens in and cook until tender   Eat and enjoy

Hmmm, that sounds like they'd be good like that Jan! Cass is going to try it sometime.

It's PDQ sammiches tonight! Their "Thanksgiving on a bun" is GREAT!

Its cold here again today so tomorrow will be Navybean soup with cornbread

Hey, ya'll cook soup when it turns cold? We do to sometimes but most of the time everyone cooks a Gumbo of some kind.

I should have thought of that Robert and made gumbo.  Got a good recipe? 

Robert, my favorite winter soup is the 15 bean soup, by "Hursts".

Never follow the recipe on the bag though.  Just add what ever I want.  (Always have some ham bones in the freezer,)

1 bag makes a large pot...

Happened to have a bag of the "Cajin" variety in the pantry.  Made up a pot and threw in a couple of pieces of rib eye steaks along with a ham bone.  If I would have found some chicken I'd have added that too, for some barnyard soup...

Finally warmed back up to FL weather.  Salad for dinner :)

Gonna have meatloaf stuffed with whole eggs today.

That bean soup sounds good, I make one every now and then.  I haven't cooked a soup in a while, I might have to get one going.

We had homemade bean soup and toasted cheese sammich.

We're going with sausage dogs tonight.

One of my grand daughters, cooks us some "pigs in a blanket" sometimes. I like it. It's a fancy way to cook a hot dog.

You're living high on the hog Robert! They call that "finger foods"! LOL!

Tonight, Lasagna....from a box.

Oh yea, well tonight is rabbit gumbo!  lol I guess we're high on the rabbit tonight. It's some frozen left overs but still real good.

Tonight was chinese food :)

Tonight; Domino's Pizza - deep dish....YAY!

LOL, I love Pizza.  Tonight was a simple omelet and toast

Ha Ha, I got lucky and got some boiled crawfish for our supper! Their had to get this time of year. I can't wait to eat em up. yum yum...lol

Craig convinced me tomorrow night is a home made pizza

I might go to LA for some crawfish though LOL

That sho sounds good to me, JJ. that's three of my favorites. We always try cook something special on weekends, don't know about ya'll, but that's what we do. Helps keep my girls close to home.lol

Sunday is ham day. Big spiral cut ham. Pig must be God's favorite animal....'cause there's so many good things that come from pig....ham, pork roast, bacon, Scrapple......hmmm, scrapple, we need to have scrapple again soon.

Twice baked SOB taters on the menu tonight.