Black eyed peas

These are the days we crave soups, stews, chilis – anything to ward off the winter chill (OK, I admit it was a balmy 60 degrees this past weekend in Philly but I’m still bracing for those frigid temps that I know are coming.) Anyway, my sister’s co-worker is Ghanaian and his wife shared the …

Black-eyed peas brought us a fair amount of luck in 2011. These ‘magic’ beans just appeared in our garden this year; and as coincidence would have it, this season we had the most bountiful garden in our gardening history! While our home-grown supply of black-eyed peas has long since been turned into salads, soups and …