I made this recently and enjoyed it!
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I love cowboy caviar, maybe when it warms up a bit. Thank you!
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Looks tasty – and sounds like a variation on Usal. Thank you!
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Thanks! I have spinach, never thought to combine.
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I haven’t tried these, but they’ve been saved for a while:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/sweet-potato-collard-and-black-eyed-pea-soup/
I might have made this one:
Meera Sodha also has a black-eyed pea curry in Made in India (p. 37) that is good with spinach added
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My fam makes black-eyed pea hummus - they say it’s lighter and tastier than the chickpea version
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USDA threatened by DOGE cuts but hurts small U.S. farmers
From the Boonville Barn Collective newsletter 16Feb2025:
(footnote in italics is mine – OP)
A Note on Agriculture Policy: … a lot of this information about Tepary Beans* [came] from the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service’s plant guides. The NRCS is currently facing a potential $8.9 Billion in funding cuts with the current administration’s attempt to curtail government spending.
This includes programs that farms in red states and blue states take advantage of like the Conservation Reserve Program (provides a yearly rental payment to farmers who remove environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and plant species that will improve environmental health and quality), Conservation Stewardship Program (helps you build on your existing conservation efforts while strengthening your operation), Environmental Quality Incentive Program (NRCS’ flagship conservation program that helps farmers, ranchers and forest landowners integrate conservation into working lands), as well as various watershed protection and air quality programs just to name a few.
CRP, CSP, and EQIP account for about 80% of the proposed funding cuts at NRCS. These programs are programs that directly PAY FARMERS for the environmentally beneficial work they are doing on their farms. CSP and EQIP are reimbursement programs which means farms that had these contracts have already paid for and implemented the projects and are awaiting payment from USDA. Losing just these 3 programs will have incredibly damaging effects on farmers’ bottom lines. The NRCS is staffed by incredibly smart scientific field agents who provide impartial technical assistance to farmers across the country.
*Boonville Barn Collective, like Rancho Gordo, grows heirloom variety beans. This newsletter featured Tepary beans, long a staple of SW Indian tribes. These beans are exceptionally high in protein with a low glycemic index, and are thus diabetic-friendly.
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Same author from her Instant Pot Miracle Mediterranean Diet cookbook:
Black-eyed peas w/berbere
Everything but herbs into the pot. High pressure for 15 minutes and 10 minutes NPR. You can use an immersion blender to thicken the stew a little bit. Garnish with the cilantro and mint.
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Sounds good! Maybe I’ll compile some berbere. Still have the cooked black eyed peas waiting to be used.
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