Watcha eating?

[dmccarty]

I kinda prefer the Purple Hull peas; we usually plant them later in the year, after the onions are all harvested. Small plot, but enough to last through New Years and satisfy those intermittent cravings during the year. Sometimes all it takes to make me happy is a couple of cold beers, a bowl of Purple Hull peas with a smidgen of bacon or ham, some Texas 10-15 onions, a little pepper sauce, a big slice of Sharn Jean's cornbread, and a big glass of buttermilk (Ok, so I was lying about the buttermilk).

Wink Wink Nudge Nudge on the "buttermilk." :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I did some Inet Reading on these here Purple Hull and Crowders. The Purple Hull is ringing a bell for some reason. I don't think I have eaten them but the name is familiar for some reason. I found a Purple Hull Festivel in AR that looked like it might have been on a road we used to travel many years ago.

Later,
Dan

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Wink Wink Nudge Nudge on the "buttermilk." :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I did some Inet Reading on these here Purple Hull and Crowders. The Purple Hull is ringing a bell for some reason. I don't think I have eaten them but the name is familiar for some reason. I found a Purple Hull Festivel in AR that looked like it might have been on a road we used to travel many years ago.

Later,
Dan

Purple Hulls are to me just a "kinder and gentler" Black Eyed Pea.

 

[toppop52]

We can't get crowders around here, being from northeastern NC they are popular around there. My mom's family brought them from Alabama in the early 40's and they caught on there big time. Sometimes I can drive 30 miles south, just across the Virgina line and get them in T's Corner at the Food Lion. Otherwise my brother sends them to me from Elizabeth City.
I like the southern style corn bread mom makes, around here and in eastern NC they make that wet, sweet pasty crap.
I love mom's corn bread crumbled into a big old glass of buttermilk, eat it with a spoon, good as it gets!

 

[two_bit_score]

What's a "hot ring"?

Sausage ring w/jalapeño

 

[IslandTractor]

Sausage ring w/jalapeño

Never seen such a thing north of the Mason Dixon line. I'll have to try some next time I get to Texas.

 

[two_bit_score]

Never seen such a thing north of the Mason Dixon line. I'll have to try some next time I get to Texas.

It's also the way it's smoked too but I always like the jalapeño hot rings. Never get cold rings myself.

City Market in Luling has the most outstanding sausage but I don't have any pictures from there.

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[two_bit_score]

We can't get crowders around here, being from northeastern NC they are popular around there. My mom's family brought them from Alabama in the early 40's and they caught on there big time. Sometimes I can drive 30 miles south, just across the Virgina line and get them in T's Corner at the Food Lion. Otherwise my brother sends them to me from Elizabeth City.
I like the southern style corn bread mom makes, around here and in eastern NC they make that wet, sweet pasty crap.
I love mom's corn bread crumbled into a big old glass of buttermilk, eat it with a spoon, good as it gets!

These are not the 'good cream crowders' but they are good for frozen peas.

Quality vegetables from Pictsweet, a family owned, family run frozen vegetable company.

They have really good field peas too.

 

[IslandTractor]

These are not the 'good cream crowders' but they are good for frozen peas.

Quality vegetables from Pictsweet, a family owned, family run frozen vegetable company.

They have really good field peas too.

Is there a difference between crowder peas, black eyed peas and cowpeas or are they all the same thing by different names? I'd never heard of crowder peas but the photo in the link looks like black eyed peas and when I google crowder I get references to cowpeas. ????

 

[toppop52]

Not even close, crowder's are different than black eyes, quite a bit. Some people confuse crowder's with field peas, but they are different as well. I don't know what cowpeas are.

 

[toppop52]

These are not the 'good cream crowders' but they are good for frozen peas.

Quality vegetables from Pictsweet, a family owned, family run frozen vegetable company.

They have really good field peas too.

One of our local Walmarts claims to stock Pictsweet crowder's but they don't ever have them and the sku # doesn't show up in their inventory. I have some small spots of ground in the back on a small ridge that has poor soil for most stuff, usually great for growing peas, I may plant some there just to see what happens. I hope the birds, rabbits and groundhogs enjoy them!:laughing: