{"id":767,"date":"2014-01-08T21:55:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2014-01-09T21:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:18:37","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started the year out with a bang in our house.  And by bang, I mean sick.  The little one had croup, the hubs had a sore throat, and I think I may have caught the plague.  The two guys have recovered, but I&#8217;m not so lucky.  I&#8217;ll get there eventually, but in the mean time, I&#8217;m not cooking too much.  I made some black eyed peas for New Year&#8217;s Day, but the rest of the day was spent elsewhere.<br \/>\nWe haven&#8217;t been hit quite as hard by the cold as other places, but for Texas, it has been cold here too.<br \/>\nThe beans I made were pretty good. I&#8217;ve played with them for a while, and almost went the ham rout this year, but with all the sickies this year, I had to improvise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140109-150426.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140109-150426.jpg\" alt=\"20140109-150426.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luckily I bought some peas that had already been soaked, but you could use canned, or dry, just rinse them and soak them.<br \/>\nI saut\u00c3\u00a9ed a diced onion and diced garlic (about two cloves) in a tablespoon of butter until transparent.  Then I added salt, and the beans and cooked for a little while, say 30 mins, and before serving I added the chopped fleshy part of a tomato (the part without the seeds) and cooked a couple mins.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140109-151032.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140109-151032.jpg\" alt=\"20140109-151032.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140109-151138.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20140109-151138.jpg\" alt=\"20140109-151138.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My poor sick little guy ate three servings of these on New Year&#8217;s, so I&#8217;m hoping for excellent luck for him this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started the year out with a bang in our house. And by bang, I mean sick. The little one had croup, the hubs had a sore throat, and I think I may have caught the plague. The two guys &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/?p=767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}