DAY Recipe

As any southerner will tell you, eating black-eyed peas at New Year’s will ensure good luck. For a simpler (and meatless) version of this hors d’oeuvre, omit the pork and serve these tender little cakes topped with just the red pepper mayo.

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Start with vegetable sticks and dip from the supermarket. Warm tortillas and a plate of sliced red onion, orange and avocado are nice sides. To end, sprinkle rum and brown sugar over fresh pineapple chunks. Look for the coconut milk in the Asian foods section of the grocery store.

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This would also be good on broiled sea bass or red snapper fillets.

Makes about 1 1/3 cups.

INGREDIENTS
1/2cup soy sauce
1/4cup asian fermented black beans,* rinsed well, drained
1/4cup rice vinegar
3tablespoons water
3tablespoons (packed) thinly sliced pickled ginger*
1tablespoon chopped peeled fresh ginger
3garlic cloves, [...]

Bente Birkedal-Hansen of Bethesda, Maryland, says that Azalea Restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, does a great job with catfish, serving the whole fish with an Asian-style black bean sauce. It would make an impressive main course at a dinner party.
If whole catfish are difficult to get at your local supermarket, order them from the fishmonger and [...]

Makes 6 servings.

INGREDIENTS
1tablespoon olive oil
1large onion, chopped
2garlic cloves, minced
1tablespoon chili powder
1 1/2teaspoons ground cumin
128-ounce can diced tomatoes in juice
2pounds kabocha or butternut squash, halved, seeded, peeled, cut into 1-inch pieces
4ounces green beans, trimmed, cut into 1-inch pieces
115- to [...]