Happy New Year everyone! For real this time! I didn't plan on posting again for a day or three, but sometimes ideas just happen.
This one came to me while I was doing my pre-New Year dinner shopping. My oldest son LOVES beans. However, the younger two, not so much. Pinto beans are pushing it, so any parent can imagine their HORROR when I mentioned black-eyed peas were on the menu. As soon as I dropped the bag into the basket the yearly, " I am not eating THAT," whine-fest began.
Normally, this would have irritated me, but on this particular day, it gave me the BEST idea. I would TRICK them into eating their New Year staple!
This is what I came up with...
They are black-eyed peas, so they ought to cover the tradition, right?
*Don't panic mom, I will make them eat at least five real ones*
Seriously, that was the plan all along.
*BRIBE THEM*
My kids will do almost anything for a cookie.
I was all around unsure about this cookie when I started. First of all, I didn't know how well a black-eye pea would translate to a cookie. There is a very fine line between creative and UGLY. So, before embarrassing myself, I sent a quick phone pic to my buddy, L, and got the thumbs up. She knew EXACTLY what they were.
Luckily, I happen to own a jelly bean cutter, and even though it always looked like a kidney to me {there IS such a thing as a kidney cookie} I knew it would work perfectly as a bean.
On a BAD note, I might have broken my resolution for no ugly cookies. Bottom line, black-eyed peas just aren't cute...unless maybe I gave them a face...but, um, not today.
However, since I was experimenting, I tried out a recipe I have been dreaming up for a while now. I made lemon poppy seed cookies, with lemon royal icing.
*Hope no one is too disappointed that my black-eye pea cookies aren't black-eye pea flavored*
I wasn't sure about the combo at first, but they are Bern Dogg's new favorite, so I KNOW they are pretty darn good. But, just to double check, I might post my recipe soon, so I can get outside input.
Happy New Year, everyone, be safe and make it a good year!
