Start the New Year with a Healthy (and Lucky) Black-Eyed Pea and Kale Salad …

Restaurant/bar Voodoo Queen on the east side of downtown was cooking up black-eyed peas for their crowd on Wednesday afternoon. The bar skews toward Cajun fare, both in their drinks and cuisine. Expect red beans and rice, honey cornbread, and 

For those of you who believe eating black eyed peas in the New Year will bring you luck (and we can certainly all use a little more luck) this healthy bean salad is for you! Whether you eat this as a salad or serve it as a dip with 

Don't even bother with trying to replace the meat at all, the black-eyed peas give this soup plenty of hearty flavor and texture. Spicy black-eyed pea soup. Soak: 6 hours. Cook: 8 hours in the slow cooker. Serves: 8-12. 16 ounces dried black-eyed peas.

Many Southerners and African Americans eat black-eyed peas on New Year's Day. Down South, African Americans often ate them because they were cheap and filling. Some believed they offered hope of freedom or 

Restaurant/bar Voodoo Queen on the east side of downtown was cooking up black-eyed peas for their crowd on Wednesday afternoon. The bar skews toward Cajun fare, both in their drinks and cuisine. Expect red beans and rice, honey cornbread, and