what is this tradition of black eye peas on new years. enquiring minds want to know

[yellowdogintexas]

14. just let me make you a cheese grits souffle. You will not (believe it is grits

It is awesome with the other traditional New Year's day foods.

I hated grits when I was growing up. We often had them when mom made "Breakfast for Supper" and we would have fried eggs, bacon or ham, biscuits and grits. She and my dad always put sugar and butter in their grits and I could not stand it. Seriously if I wanted hot cereal I would just as soon have oatmeal. Now that I like grits, I have them plain with salt and pepper with my eggs. (for some weird reason they also did this sugar business with rice when we had it as a side. I did not learn to really like rice until my uncle made me some rice with gravy. My whole world changed)

So anyway I was at a church pot luck with my folks and my mom got really excited over this dish of cheese grits. She told me I had to try it so I did. She was right. Now I make it often to take to pot lucks.