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I was raised to always have greens and black eyed peas on New Years day and you would have money all year. Its worked so far and I’m not taking a chance this year, so tomorrow, we will have ham, black eyed peas, turnip greens, pepper sauce for the greens, corn bread and a sweet potato pie and of course sweet tea. I can hardly wait.
Well, it turned out wonderful. I had some corn bread left over, so I crumbled it up and put it in the “Pot Likker”.
Um, um good. Happy New Year and prosperity to every one.
I heard of the black-eyed peas superstition from coworkers. I never ate or even heard of any of those foods except ham until I was an adult. (Had sweet potatoes growing up, but didn't know some people put them in a pie.)
Now I like them all. Enjoy your dinner, and I hope it works again!
Another food I didn't grow up with but I eat quite a bit of - Black eyed peas.
I can have black eyed peas, cornbread, as mustard greens as a light supper. I love to sop the pot liquor up with the cornbread.
early on it was at my grandmothers house in Kennebunkport she would order Omaha steaks (tenderloins) and dad would cook them on the grill..... us kids loved going to visit we would all raise our drinks ...even if soda for a new years toast …
after that (early 70's) then dad took over the new years party …. he's a lobster-fisherman that would go scalloping/shrimping in the winter …. he would make this grand seafood chowder … with lobster/scallops/shrimp all as fresh as can be and loaded... in the chowda ….
we would also have steamer clams and mussels us kids would dig and pick...and they'd be soaking in butter with little fondue sticks …
as teenagers we were allowed to have some cold-duck … a glass.
unfortunately no more family parties...…. everyone seems to want to stay off the roads and not go out - I feel the same..
so this year... I cooked something different /delicious a sirloin strip roast on the big George rotisserie.... cooked medium rare......melt in our mouths- good!!!
I was raised to always have greens and black eyed peas on New Years day and you would have money all year. Its worked so far and I’m not taking a chance this year, so tomorrow, we will have ham, black eyed peas, turnip greens, pepper sauce for the greens, corn bread and a sweet potato pie and of course sweet tea. I can hardly wait.
Well, if it doesn't do anything for your pocketbook it sounds like it's still going to be good for your soul!
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I do pork and sauerkraut, which I understand is a PA area tradition.
Why am I not surprised? It's common in Scandinavian countries and is on the menu for the week. Mine will be with ribs and a gift of homemade kraut.
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These days, one has to have already achieved prosperity to afford that rib roast!
Snickering. Later this week I'm making fattigman,Norwegian poor man's cookies. They call them that because by the time you buy all the ingredients, guess what?
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Among Scandinavians fish seafood and herring are popular.
That's what we're doing. No more lutefisk for us. We've suffered enough.
We have shrimp cocktail, garlic bread, relishes, bacon cheese spread with crackers and the time-honored rice pudding with raspberries and blackberries. Whipped cream with cardamom. Some years I buy the traditional lingonberries.
“Godt Nytt År, takk for det gamle” Happy New Year, thank you for the past year to all.
I hope the New Year has you feeling better very soon!
Thank you. Enjoy your vegan new years feast!
Cold Duck is still in production. A few new years ago a neighbor invited me for a drink of champagne...turned out to be Cold Duck. What a shock! I thought that stuff had disappeared years ago.
My parents friends would all come over for appetizers and then they would be in black tie and go to the club. Us kids would have a big sleepover at one of the parents houses with the babysitter(s).
I remember things like relish trays, celery stuffed with creme cheese, cheese and ritz crackers, etc.
I remember that when I was fifteen and older (many moons ago) on New Year's Eve, my parents and I sat at the dining room table and enjoyed a few alcoholic drinks. New Year's Eve was the only day of the year that my father drank.
He drank shots of Polish vodka, and my mother drank a few glasses of her beloved gin and tonic.
My father bought me a case of Molson Ex, eh? A whole twelve!
A year or so later, I was allowed to invite a friend over, as long as my mother cleared the beer drinking with my friend's parents.
We had a spread of deli food on the table for snacking on New Year's Eve. Rye bread, cheeses and various meats, pates, etc.
My friend at the time was trying to become a vegetarian but she couldn't resist the kielbasa.
remember while cooking beans or peas don't add salt at the beginning it makes the skins hard learned that from a southern cooking show . add while cooking .
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