Ingredients

• Black-Eyed Peas
• 1 pound black-eyed peas, soaked 6-8 hours
  
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
  
• a medium sweet onion, quartered
  
• 2 cloves garlic, smashed but intact
  
• a ham hock, or a ham bone, or even a big chunk of ham
  

• Relish
• Black-eyed peas (from above)
  
• 1/2 cup chopped red onion
  
• 1 shallot, chopped
  
• 4 healthy-looking green onions, white part only, chopped
  
• 2 lovely tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped
  
• 1 cup diced peppers (red and yellow are nice, but green works too. Or orange. Or all four)
  
• Juice from two limes, maybe 1/4 cup
  
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  
• 1 cup chiffonade basil
  
• 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  
• 1 cara cara orange, supremed
  
• some chopped cilantro