Get ready for your New Year's Day traditional food porn!

Naturally, you took my advice and bought a bag of black-eyed peas, right? If so, you can participate in real time. First, get out that bag of dried peas:

Pour the peas into a suitably large soup pot (a big saucepan will do) and cover with at least an inch of water:

Put the cover on that sucker and go to work. We're not doing anything with this until they've soaked at least 24 hours. Tomorrow, we turn them into New Year's traditional goodness.