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I will be having my usual New Year's Day meal, Collards, picked from my garden, black eyed peas from a can, ham, good Southern cornbread[ no sugar], big slice of sweet onion, sweet tea, and sweet potato casserole . Got to have them greens and peas so I will have money. It's always worked and I'm not taking any chances, plus it's good.
That sounds divine! I myself am having black-eyed peas to bring good luck. I'm not in the mood to include the rice though.
As for me, I and my family are going to eat sweet potatoes, meat (I think beef), sushi (various kinds), chocolate mousse cake, probably some kind of cheese, and maybe one or more other foods as well. Also, we are certainly going to stay up all of the way up to midnight (for the record, I live in Southern California).
Anyway, any thoughts on this?
Also, in addition to all of this food, I also ate a lot of lentils and one peanut butter and caramel candy from Trader Joe's.
Do you make your own chicken broth? If so, have you tried roasting the bones in the oven first (even if the chicken is already baked)? It really increases the depth of flavor. I read that tip just recently and it explained to me why my turkey soup is always better (because I use a turkey that was roasted on a barbecue grill instead of baked).
Wow, no, I haven't tried that - sounds GREAT. Thanks for the tip!
Whyyyyy did you schedule a root canal for new year's eve??!!
Sometimes you don't schedule tooth drama. I didn't schedule this! I consider myself lucky to have a dentist who could work me in!
I'm fine now though - not relegated to soup, though that's what I had last night. Regular eating today - black eyed peas, cabbage and pork chops.
Oh and I discovered this excellent way to bake cornbread - you lay bacon in the bottom of a cast iron skillet in a lattice pattern. Put it in a hot oven while you're mixing up the cornbread, and let it start to cook for about ten minutes prior to pouring the cornbread batter over it. Then just bake the cornbread as usual. DANG. That's so freaking good!
We're having strawberries with real whipped cream (I don't do that canned whipped cream and I for sure don't do that fake stuff in a plastic tub!) over pound cake for dessert.
This is a decadent meal but tomorrow the low carb diet starts. LOL! We'll see how long that lasts!
Whyyyyy did you schedule a root canal for new year's eve??!!
I had to schedule a root canal right before Christmas once. It was either that (I was lucky - someone else had cancelled) or get it in three months. And the tooth was broken and as painful as it could be.
Whyyyyy did you schedule a root canal for new year's eve??!!
Often times, you can't help when you have dental work done. Teeth don't care about holidays. I had an emergency root canal the day after my birthday last year. I put it off a day because of my birthday. Definitely not something I planned on, but crap happens.
I was going to make a big breakfast, but I wasn't very hungry. My son was supposed to eat breakfast (at lunch time) with me. He didn't want breakfast...too much "fun" on New Year's Eve. I was going to make pot roast. I grazed all afternoon and wasn't hungry then, either. I'll have the post roast today.
Tooth drama is over and we had a fantastic New Years Day, with delicious black eyed peas, cabbage, corn bread - and some big, thick pork chops. Yes!
Thank God for dentists.
You've got a good dentist then. Mine keeps cancelling on me
Leftover duck salad was delicious yesterday and got some left for today. Going to make stock with the carcass today to get the most out of the duck.
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I myself am having black-eyed peas to bring good luck. I'm not in the mood to include the rice though.
Also, we are certainly going to stay up all of the way up to midnight (for the record, I live in Southern California). 
