Want to Have Luck and Wealth in the New Year? Make This Gratin

Start the new year off right with this delicious and different way to enjoy black-eyed peas and greens.

If you want to have luck in the new year, you absolutely must eat black-eyed peas on New Year's Day. And if you want to have any money, you also had better eat your greens. Dreamstime/TNS

By Meredith Deeds From Star Tribune

Whether you’re from the South, have lived in the South or, like me, was raised by a Southerner, you know two things in life to be true. If you want to have luck in the new year, you absolutely must eat black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day. And if you want to have any money, you also had better eat your greens.