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We've never really considered New Year's day a holiday... other than being day off for some. Or at least not a holiday where the meal is the star. So no special meal. If it's a quiet NY Eve, that's when I fix myself a nice meal... or maybe something a little special. Most of my meals are nice meals. And today, was like any other day. I had a really nice salad with spiced pecans and gorgonzola cheese, and broiled salmon filet.
Lunch - Taco Bell (my last fast food meal for a very long time).
Dinner - (which we always have on the 1st of January) - cooked cabbage, black-eye peas, pork chops, cornbread, birthday cake ice cream and yes the diet starts back tomorrow! I have gained about 8 pounds since December 1st!!
How do you cook hog jowls so that they don't taste like spit?
Lol--I take it you've never had any hog jowls . It's basically like smoked bacon, with streaks of meat & fat, but from the "jowl" of the hog, not the "belly".
Every New Year's Eve I make a big pot of french onion soup. Our traditional New Year's Day lunch consists of a big bowl of soup, with a toasted french baguette crouton, and loads of melted gruyere on top. We accompany this with a glass of good red wine.
Have never done the black eyed peas thing (with two kids in college, perhaps I should have as we could use good luck for prosperity). However, our dinner this year consisted of delicious homemade beer battered fish, oven roasted chips (with garlic & rosemary) and mushy peas, as that was one of our favourite meals we enjoyed this summer during our travels in Ireland and England.
How do you cook hog jowls so that they don't taste like spit?
Darn - this post will come to mind every time I cook smoked jowls.
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New Year's Day Meal
. It's basically like smoked bacon, with streaks of meat & fat, but from the "jowl" of the hog, not the "belly". 
