Okay, who else besides me is on the way to Lee's house??? YUM is right! Nothing better than a big pot of beans and ham hocks with cornbread and greens! I know here in Houston, Texas, all the folks I know eat greens and black eyed peas for New Year's Day too. I've always crumbled my cornbread onto my plate or into a shallow bowl, then spooned on a heap of beans and some hunks of ham hock meat. Then I top it off with chopped onion. My dad grew up in Swords Creek, Russell Co, Va, and that's how he grew up eating it too. I always did everything like my dad!! Anybody else grow up eating ox tail soup? Also ham and redeye gravy? Lucky for my parents, I ate anything they put in front of me!! Nobody could fry chicken like my dad, and make the best milk gravy you'd every want to eat! Mmm... Sue -----Original Message----- From: glh [mailto:glh@naxs.com] Down South the traditional New Years Day meal is ham hock, collard greens and blackeyed peas. yumm! Yumm! Good!! G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.

>>Okay, who else besides me is on the way to Lee's house??? YUM is right! Nothing better than a big pot of beans and ham hocks with cornbread and greens! <<< And Don't forget a big glass of Buttermilk! I think I'll chunk up the fire and start bakin' some cornbread!! G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va.