Happy New Year!

Here’s a beautiful new beginning to a New Year.

I hope your New Year has begun in a positive way. I had to begin with the lucky foods, of course.

From the top right: barbequed boneless pork chop, black-eyed peas (not ever my favorite, but I want to earn some money this year), and then steamed mustard greens and kale (not the normal greens here in North Carolina, but I had these greens in our freezer.)

We’ve already had a snow event in the beginning of January. Really, it was more of an ice eve...