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Starting the New Year With Traditional Black-eyed Peas/Bean

Posted on by Linda
How do you start your New Year? My mom always made Black-eyed Peas/Beans on New Year's Day. She said it would bring us luck in the New Year! Keeping traditions alive are necessary! Love this simple, healthy meal to start the year. Can only hope the luck comes with it! Mom's Black-eyed Pea Soup 3 Smoked Hammocks 1 med Onion - chopped 3 carrots - chopped 3 stalks celery - diced 6 cloves Garlic - diced 24 oz dried Black-eyed Peas/Beans Rosemary...

I Live a Soupy Life – My Story of Weight Loss Surgery

Posted on by Linda
The year was 2010, the place was Yellowstone National Park, the feelings were; irate, mad, annoyed!   Yes, I was angry.  I couldn’t do anything, I felt my body had failed me, but I had failed my body.  Getting up in the morning was a chore, my husband would wake early in the morning, start a campfire, eat breakfast, and read his book.  I laid in the tent, sleeping, or just laying there, dreading the time I stepped out of the tent....