OT - New Years Day Food Traditions

[Barcelona Rick]

I have lived in Texas my entire life (except keeping the commies from overrunning the world.....USN Fleet Sailor) but I have visited about three dozen countries. I married a Florida surfer girl (she is even educated) so we have shared a common taste in food. This afternoon my boy, his wife, son and daughter came over to eat.....now my son and his wife are very typical 26 year olds (raised in Texas).....in other words they are rednecks (instead of smoked ham they would have served venison)....we had what we always have on New Years Day.

Field peas with snaps and smoked ham, spicey scalloped tomatoes, rice, cabbage, cornbread and something to drink (they had ice tea, the grandkids bug juice and I had a big ole cold glass of Buttermilk)....

What did y'all have ??? Tradition or ???

jumbeaux

[rjohns94]

normally in Pa round here, its pork and sourkraut. I had steamed spiced shrimp and sweet potato.

[rock-steady]

black-eyed peas for luck
steamed cabbage for money
smoked ham cause its good

thats the way we was raised

[2ndovc]

The Kids go with their father on New Years Eve so Blondie and I have the place to ourselves!!

She whipped up an onion breaded grilled chicken with stuffing and green beans that just rocked!

Some Belgian beer for me and vodka and cranberry for her.

Wonderful evening!


jb

[Hobie]

Wife had her black-eyed peas for good luck and I had mine to keep her happy.

[Modoc ED]

When it's just the wife and I, as it is today, we don't go traditional so to speak but rather with what we like.

For lunch today, I had baked cod in garlic and buter sauce with battered salmon slices and the wife had a reuben sandwich.

Around 3:30PM I had a half dozen raw oyesters with a sprinkling of cider vinegar and salt and pepper.

Tonight for supper we are having shrimp creole over rice, sliced cucumbers, and kale along with garlic bread. Iced tea for beverage. Coconut cream pie for desert.

Anymore, I'm willing to give up tradition as long as the food (whatever it is) is good.

[tman]

pork and bannana peppers and sauerkraught. crown royal and dark beer

[Modoc ED]

pork and bannana peppers and sauerkraught. crown royal and dark beer

Ya want something really good -- not that your choices aren't good.

Slice some Jalopena peppers in half length-ways, scoop the seeds and pulp out, fill the halves with tuna fish salad, pop them in the freezer for 30-minutes and serve with beer.

[cshold]

pork and sourkraut.

[2ndovc]

pork and bannana peppers and sauerkraught. crown royal and dark beer

Ya want something really good -- not that your choices aren't good.

Slice some Jalopena peppers in half length-ways, scoop the seeds and pulp out, fill the halves with tuna fish salad, pop them in the freezer for 30-minutes and serve with beer.

That Sounds Good!!

jb

[RIHMFIRE]

Venison...seasoned Lawrys perfect blend which has
garlic, black pepper, paprika, rosemary,thyme, parsley
and a bunch of other seasonings
baked potato, Zuccinni, squash, onions,
garlic bread......and beer....

[fatoldfool]

fried cabbage, brown beans & a beer.....it's been interesting......I'm afraid to go to sleep.

[mklwhite]

Ham, black eyed peas, deviled eggs, buttermilk bread. No cabbage today. The only way my wife can get me to eat cabbage is kraut, slaw or fried colcannon. Can't stand boiled.
Funny about the pork and kraut stuff being mentioned. The wife and I just heard about that last night at the grocery store from someone who was down here from New York.

[86er]

Is Famous Grouse food? I worked on New Years Eve from my first job continuously for 15 years. Now I traditionally enjoy just enough Famous Grouse on New Years to celebrate the fact that I can do what I want on that eve.

[Hobie]

I didn't have kraut but I did have kimchee...

[mav]

Pork, kolbasy, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes washed down with some Troegs HopBack Ale.

[JoeRinMD]

Lentils are an old Italian tradition. So, I found a lentils and sausage dish on the web and prepared it for some friends. The legend is since lentils are shaped like small coins, they are supposed to bring good fortune for the year.

Of course, it was served with appropriate quantities of red wine!

Joe

[Rusty]

Yep B.E. peas and cabbage are traditional. I was delivering to a store earlier this week and the person unloading the truck was talking about the new ast. manager with no kind words because he had only ordered 8 cases of B.E. peas. People were already lined up in the isles waiting for it.

[Doc Hudson]

Today was not a bi day for us. We both slept late and neither of us dressed today, just jammies and robes.

For lunch i made a big pot of Hoppin' John and we finished it for supper.

Tomorrow, Arroz con Pollo!

[Pete44ru]

A delicious baked Ham ( for once, not salty), adorned & baked with pinapple rings, cloves & glaze, accompanied by sweet potatoes (yams), smashed potatoes, green beans, baked carrots glazed w/brown sugar, cranberry sauce and home-made bread rolls.

What I like about Ham, is although sandwiches can be later made (like Turkey), some of it can also be processed into Ham Salad spread, and the meaty bone save/frozen to make some Hambone/split-pea soup for a cold Winter's day.

'Course, dessert was my wife's sugar-free Apple Pie - the one I have to fight to get one piece of, when I take a pie to deer camp.

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[alnitak]

We don't have many New Year's food traditions, unlike Christmas and Thanksgiving. But, there is one tradition we have for the holidays -- milk punch!!

My dad brought it back from New Orleans, maybe 50 years ago, and it quickly became the family "tradition" for holiday mornings. The recipe is simple -- 50% whole milk, 50% bourbon (we use Jack Daniels), and one heaping teaspoon of confectioners powdered sugar per glass (roughly 3-4 ozs). Shake to mix, pour in a wide glass of some type (e.g., burgundy wine glass, brandy snifter, etc.) over a couple of ice cubes and sprinkle a little ground nutmeg on top. Mmm, mmmm.... A couple glasses of that will get you going on New Years day.

[roundup]

My Dad's family was German/Scandanavian. My Mom's was from the South. New Years eve we had black-eyed peas and pickled herring. Plus bourbon and akavit.

[Old Ironsights]

New Year's Day Food?

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