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Location: Gainesville, TX | How many people have had hopping john for New Years? |
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Location: Montana | No, but I did have black eyed peas! :) |
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| 10 times better than black eyed peas. |
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Location: Roping pen | Every year! So, far, healthy, weathly (enough), and wise (some would disagree!), so must be working!!! |
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Location: Southwest Minnesota | What is "Hopping John"? |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | chuckie31 - 2014-01-07 3:31 PM What is "Hopping John"?
A southern new year's tradition. You cook up a whole package of bacon, then you slice up some onion, celery, and bell peppers and cook till soft in the bacon grease. Break your crispy bacon into tiny pieces. Cook up a few cups of rice and some black eyed peas. Add the veggies, bacon bits, rice, and blackeyed peas together. Walah. It all tastes like bacon and black eyed peas. Can't go wrong there. Good enough you'll slap yourself.
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Location: Kansas | oija - 2014-01-07 4:11 PM chuckie31 - 2014-01-07 3:31 PM What is "Hopping John"? A southern new year's tradition. You cook up a whole package of bacon, then you slice up some onion, celery, and bell peppers and cook till soft in the bacon grease. Break your crispy bacon into tiny pieces. Cook up a few cups of rice and some black eyed peas. Add the veggies, bacon bits, rice, and blackeyed peas together. Walah. It all tastes like bacon and black eyed peas. Can't go wrong there. Good enough you'll slap yourself.
YUMMMMMMMM!!! I want to try some now! |
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Location: Southwest Minnesota | hoofs_in_motion - 2014-01-07 4:16 PM oija - 2014-01-07 4:11 PM chuckie31 - 2014-01-07 3:31 PM What is "Hopping John"? A southern new year's tradition. You cook up a whole package of bacon, then you slice up some onion, celery, and bell peppers and cook till soft in the bacon grease. Break your crispy bacon into tiny pieces. Cook up a few cups of rice and some black eyed peas. Add the veggies, bacon bits, rice, and blackeyed peas together. Walah. It all tastes like bacon and black eyed peas. Can't go wrong there. Good enough you'll slap yourself.
Want to share a recipe with me? That looks yummy! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | chuckie31 - 2014-01-07 3:31 PM What is "Hopping John"?
I was wondering to what Hopping John was, wow looks really good  |
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Location: Southwest Minnesota | My first thought was that Hopping John was the name of someone's stud horse. Glad I asked.  |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | chuckie31 - 2014-01-07 5:34 PM My first thought was that Hopping John was the name of someone's stud horse. Glad I asked.
 The same thought went through my head! That does look delicious though. |
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Location: Montana | Hopping John does look good, we may have to try that! |
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Location: Right Where I'm Meant To Be :) | Looks good! Here in Western PA it's pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for Good Luck throughout the year  |
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| Emeril's recipe is good--google it. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Here's Emeril's recipe . . .
Ingredients 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 large ham hock 1 cup onion, chopped 1/2 cup celery, chopped 1/2 cup green pepper, chopped 1 tablespoon chopped garlic 1 pound black-eyed peas, soaked overnight and rinsed 1 quart chicken stock Bay leaf 1 teaspoon dry thyme leaves Salt, black pepper, and cayenne 3 tablespoons finely chopped green onion 3 cups steamed white rice Directions Heat oil in a large soup pot, add the ham hock and sear on all sides for 4 minutes. Add the onion, celery, green pepper, and garlic, cook for 4 minutes. Add the black-eyed peas, stock, bay leaves, thyme, and seasonings. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 40 minutes, or until the peas are creamy and tender, stir occasionally. If the liquid evaporates, add more water or stock. Adjust seasonings, and garnish with green onions. Serve over rice. Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/hoppin-john-recip...Here's mine. 1 package of bacon w/ brown sugar on it. 6 cups prepared white rice 1 pkg black eyed peas soaked 2 large onions, diced 2 large bell peppers, diced 10 stalks celery, diced Rosemary (I do all the below spices 'to taste' ) Salt Pepper Garlic Seasoned Salt (or instead of the veggies you can use the frozen package of seasoning mix from Walmart and instead of soaking your black eyed peas just used canned--works good either way ) Cook the entire package of bacon until pretty crispy but not burnt. Keep all the grease and cook your diced veggies in it. Break up your bacon into small bits while your veggies and rice are cooking. After everything is done, combine rice, black eyed peas, veggies, and bacon bits into a pot and cook for about 10 minutes to let everything mix well. Add your spices to taste and tadum. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | A really good recipe is on The Southern Lady Cooks. I love her hopping john. You make it in the crock pot or the stove. I usually make it once a month. My husband loves it too. The onyl thing I do different is I add some Red Cayenne pepper. Or just add hot sauce when you serve the individual.
She is on FB and also has a web page. All of her recipes are great. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | BTW, mine will serve quite a few people (like 8-10) unless you like extra big servings. We always have leftovers. |
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