Jack did tell me that if I was going to cook something special for New Year's Day, I had to include black-eyed peas, cornbread, and collard greens. That's what he grew up eating on January 1st every year for good luck.
Having grown up in a non-Southern family, I have no idea how to make black-eyed peas and collard greens, and my cornbread is just barely acceptable since I don't own a cast iron skillet. So I cooked a pot of black-eyed peas anyway, but I forgot to get the collard greens. At our "New Year's" party, I convinced everyone to try cornbread and black-eyed peas. Jack also mentioned Tabasco sauce as an important ingredient. When I reluctantly got around to tasting black-eyed peas with Tabasco sauce and cornbread myself, I ended up going back to get a second and third helping. It turns out that black-eyed peas and Tabasco sauce are really good. . .
And then Jack got home for lunch. And let me know that the Tabasco sauce is for the collard greens, not the black-eyed peas.
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