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Hi! My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I am going to show you
how to make black eyed peas. Okay let's see what we need for today's video. First things
first, black eyed peas. This is a pound which calls for this recipe so one pound of black
eyed peas. You can get them at any grocery store. You can get them either soaked or unsoaked.
You can also get them in cans. We want the hard dry for this. If you try making this
with can blackeyed peas, it's not really gross unless you make black eyed pea soup basically.
Not the way to do it. So just plain old dry black eye peas, four cups of just plain old
normal water, the tap variety. I've got a one medium yellow sweet onion. I always use
sweet onions unless I want to use red onions for some things. We need a whole one for this.
Sweet onions are also good because they have a much mellower flavor than a regular old
yellow onion. Your salt and pepper, I've got one cup of ham. You could also use diced up
ham. I just happened to cook a ham a couple of days ago so I had some ham lying around
so I just pulled some pieces off and will shred it for later. I've also got about three
and half ounces of, this is called salt pork. It is a pretty easy to find product at least
here in Texas and some other places it is a little harder to find; goes by different
names too. What it is though is a really thick slab of uncut bacon so you could substitute
bacon for this so you can substitute bacon for this essentially. But salt pork also carries
a little more salt in it so it is going to be a little bit saltier; three and half ounces
of salt pork which we are going to cut up. That is it for our ingredients. Let's see
what equipment we are going to need for todays video.