Kitty Crider published this recipe from Dottie and Joe Wilkison in the Statesman one of those years ago when the Longhorns were in a New Year's Day bowl game. She said it was not only tasty, but kind of orange colored, so perfect. It's also very easy, with only six major ingredients. We save our spiral honey-baked ham bone from Christmas dinner for this.
It is a really, really tasty soup ... a stew, really. We've changed it up to work in a crock pot.
2 cups dried black-eyed peas
Ham bone with meat or ham hocks
2 cups minced celery
1 large onion, minced
2 cups minced carrots
1 lb. smoked sausage
2 Tsbp. chili powder
Wash the peas and put in crock pot with 1 1/2 quarts of water. (No need to soak peas.) Add the ham bone, the celery, onion and carrots. Cook on high for 4 hours or on low for 8. Cut up the smoked sausage and chili powder and cook for another 30 minutes to an hour, or whenever you can't stand it anymore and have to have a bowl. If needed, add more water, salt or black pepper. It's great with corn bread.
