Beans, Sausage & Ground Beef

This is one of my favorite recipes. The recipe for canning is in this blog post.

I’ve been wanting this for several weeks and we’ve been having other things. I brought a jar upstairs at least two weeks ago. Today we’re having leftovers from Christmas and I was thinking tomorrow I can cook a pot of rice and pop open a jar of beans, sausage and ground beef and make a pot of cornbread.

But then I started thinking .. what if I make a big pot of beans, sausage and ground beef for New Year’s day. The sausage is pork, I could make coleslaw (which I almost always serve with this), and cornbread. Can red beans be substituted for black eyed peas on New Year’s Day? Probably shouldn’t. The black eyed peas are for luck . . I’m not risking skipping the black eyed peas. 🙂

Here’s what I’m going to do. For New Year’s, I’ll bake a ham, fix black eyed peas and greens, cabbage with sausage, and cornbread. I know we’re supposed to have collards with the black eyed peas. I have canned collards but I also have freeze dried sweet potato leaves which I think would be great with the black eyed peas.

Then, on January 2, the guys are going to be here installing the radon mitigation system. I can make a big pot of beans, ground beef and sausage and feed them. That’s a good idea, don’t you think?