Everybody ready? Today I'm testing the first of hopefully many recipes from the Country Tart.
The first thing I did was print out the recipe. I went through the list of ingredients, pulling from my pantry whatever was on the list that I already had. Then it was off to the grocery store to pick up the rest. I wanted to go to the Indian store for the spices, but they aren't open when I am ready to shop today. If I waited around for the rest of the world to get rolling, I'd never accomplish anything, so I went to the regular old grocery store. I thought this would be a good way to see if the ingredients for this recipe could be purchased at my regular store, and it turns out they could. Altogether I spent $19.98. I could have kept it lower than that by buying smaller jars of spices, but I have a feeling I'll be using a lot of these ingredients in recipes to come so I didn't scrimp. Besides, I bought a lottery scratch ticket and won $20, so technically it was all free anyway. Plus, they paid me $0.02. So not only is this recipe filled with foods that love me back (TM COUNTRY TART), it is paying me to cook it.
The link to Lynn's blog posting of this recipe is given above, but to keep everything in one place, here is the recipe:
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A New Way with Black-eyed Peas for 2011
THE FINAL RESULT
This recipe is going into my permanent file. DELICIOUS - the beans are smoky, with a deep flavor that tastes so good you want to drink a cup of the juice. My sister, who agreed to try black-eyed peas fixed this way in spite of the fact that she has never liked them, ate a whole serving and said they were delicious! We had them for dinner, with beef brisket and cornbread. Here's a picture of my finished product.