New year's day food

[Granbonny]

I have my black-eyed peas, pork roast for Sunday..NO collards..smell up the house. these are tradional southern foods for New Year's Day.Suppose to bring money and luck for New year.. BET, ANN will answer SOON..and Danny.. Bonnie

 

[Mary]

Bonnie,
We usually have beans and ham with cornbread on the side, but I'm making sure I'm using the black eye peas this year. I'm hopeful that I will be showered with money and good luck!

 

[Wise]

Isn't cabbage one of the New Year's Day musts? If it is maybe I'll make some, because I like it. I don't have any traditions along that line; didn't grow up doing anything special I guess. Bonnie, you could probably make black eyed peas actually taste good...to someone like me who isn't really into them. Anyway, whatever I eat I hope the big bucks roll in. Happy New Year!!

Wise

 

[Glenda]

Mary, you sure can tell that we're from Missouri. I plan to have beans & ham and cornbread too along with black-eyed peas for good luck. I don't know if it works or not but doesn't hurt to give it a try, Right? We've always had black-eyed peas on New Years. just an old Smith family tradition.

Bonnie, the pork roast sure sounds good too, now collards I can do without. I love spinach but not collards.

I pray that the new year will bring everyone health and happiness.

 

[Mary]

Isn't cabbage one of the New Year's Day musts? If it is maybe I'll make some, because I like it. I don't have any traditions along that line; didn't grow up doing anything special I guess. Bonnie, you could probably make black eyed peas actually taste good...to someone like me who isn't really into them. Anyway, whatever I eat I hope the big bucks roll in. Happy New Year!!

Wise

Wise,
I'm originally from S. Illinois, and over there you have to have cabbage on New Year's Day. Maybe KY and IL share that cultural tradition?
Anyway, maybe I'll have cabbage too in addition to black-eye peas. I don't want to pass up an opportunity to improve my chances on luck and money in 2006!
Glenda,
Add cabbage to your meal! We might be on to something!

 

[ShezaGirlie]

I'll drag myself home and fix this if y'all will come..

I'll drag myself home and fix this if y'all will come..

Menudo...para mis amigos!

A large saucepan
1 calf's foot (about 1 to 1 1/2 pounds)
2 pounds honeycomb tripe (from the cow's second stomach only)
1 large onion
3 cloves garlic, peeled
6 peppercorns
2 teaspoons salt, or to taste
4 quarts of water
A comal or griddle
3 large chiles anchos
A spice grinder
A large chile poblano, peeled or 2 canned, peeled green chiles
The calf's foot
1/2 cup canned hominy (1 pound) drained
Salt as necessary
1 scant teaspoon oregano

Have the butcher cut the calf's foot into four pieces. Cut the tripe into small squares. Put them into the pan with the rest of the ingredients. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Lower the flame and simmer uncovered for about 2 hours, or until the tripe and foot are just tender but not too soft. Meanwhile, toast the chilies well. Slit them open and remove the seeds and veins from the chile poblano, cut it into strips, and add to the meat while it is cooking. Remove the pieces of calf's foot from the pan, and when they are cool enough to handle, strip off the fleshy parts. Chop them roughly and return them to the pan.

Add hominy and continue cooking the menudo slowly, still uncovered, for another 2 hours.

Add salt as necessary. Sprinkle with oregano and serve (see note below).

This amount is sufficient for 7 or 8 people. It should be served in large, deep bowls with hot tortillas and small dishes of chopped chile serranos, finely chopped onion and wedges of lime for each person to help himself, along with Salsa de Tomate Verde Cruda to be eaten with tortillas.

 

[Ross]

Pork and Saurkraut here, along with vegetable trays, cheese and crackers, trail and beef bologna, drinks at random.

 

[weekycat]

Hmmm...

Hmmm...

I've never heard of "traditional" New Year's food here in MN, but we were planning on making a glazed ham since we're celebrating Christmas with Ray's daughter and her hubby. I haven't decided exactly what to serve with it though... don't really want to go all out like a Christmas meal. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

(I don't think I could get anyone around here to eat black-eyed peas...but we sure could use some luck this year)

 

[Emma]

Do you celebrate New Years day there too then?? We don't really do anything for it here (or maybe its just us?!)... unless I can convince mym mum that it should be a new tradition for her to cook for us all again for new year!???

Emma
xxx

 

[terryj]

I'm cooking black eyed peas,collards,mashed potatoes and a meatloaf. We have to have the black eyed peas and collards every New Years Day. I vary the other dishes. My husband loves the collards and we hope he tests a little high on his INR this week so he can have a larger portion. I forgot the cornbread and onions. Those are a must.

 

[Mary]

Do you celebrate New Years day there too then?? We don't really do anything for it here (or maybe its just us?!)... unless I can convince mym mum that it should be a new tradition for her to cook for us all again for new year!???

Emma
xxx

Yes Emma,
New Year's Day is a major holiday. Of course I think it's a holiday so people who have been out partying the night before don't have to go to work the next day.
Many of the college "Bowl" games are played on New Year's, and there are parades around the country celebrating the start of the New Year.
Mary

 

[geebee]

Being from a "pig" city, ham (or pork roast) and beans are traditional NYD food items. I am doing a Honey Baked Ham instead of a saltier country ham (can't give up ham altogether). Also making corn bread, beans, sauerkraut and pineapple cake.

Enjoy your New Year's whatever you eat and best wishes for a great 2006.

 

[Emma]

Thanks Mary! New years day is a bank holiday here too so we all get the day off but it doesnt sound like its celebrated anywhere near the way you do it there. Lucky you! Sounds good!

Next question, whats corn bread, black eyed peas (apart from the group) and collard???

Emma
xxx

 

[Mary]

Thanks Mary! New years day is a bank holiday here too so we all get the day off but it doesnt sound like its celebrated anywhere near the way you do it there. Lucky you! Sounds good!

Next question, whats corn bread, black eyed peas (apart from the group) and collard???

Emma
xxx

Oh, Emma, Emma, Emma!
You need to come visit us so we can cook them for you, rather than just tell you about them!
Black-eye peas are beans that have a black colored portion on them. I'm assuming they're beans but maybe they are peas. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
Corn bread is made from cornmeal rather than flour. It can be baked in a square pan, in an iron skillet, or in muffin pans.
Collards are greens. I don't know how to describe them very well. Do you know what mustard greens are? They are very similar and are a cluster of long, green plant leaves confused: ) that are difficult to describe.
Don't worry; one of our Southerners will be along shortly to give you a more concise description.
What they all have in common is that are cheap, but very filling.
Mary

 

[JimL]

Our traditional New Year's food is picked herring in wine sauce, but the last of our children are planning to return to school on Sunday, so we'll probably just be crying in our beer.

 

[Granbonny]

Black-eyed peas are...peas.. This time of the year..you can buy them..dried, frozen or canned...Only fresh in the summer when they are still in the garden. ..I prefer dried..must have to soak..I do the quick soak.. Put peas in a pot, add 6 cups of HOT water..bring to a boil..remove and leave in pot for 1 hour..Drain again..add ham bone..and cook for 2 hours. ( any left over ham will be good)From Xmas, ect.........Terry..How do you do your collards..they smell up the entire house. ..and all of you eating the greens (cabbage, collards, suakrkraut)like Terry said, hope your INR's are on the high side. Yes, I am having cornbread, too...but buy the Martha White .Cotton Pickin Cornbread..Just add water..(It's a buttermilk mix) but, always cook in a heavy iron skillet..Well greased and hot.. 450 degrees for 7=8 minutes ..then take out and pour mixture in...........Janie..the only Ingredients I have in my house for your recipe.. would be water, onion and salt.. however, I do know what hominy is...watched my late Granfather make it in a big..black pot..Corn, swells and then they throw lye in it. Have seen it canned..but, never buy it... .......I know my Hubby loved to eat...a German dish when he was flying to Germany..I think it is a large pig Hock?I know, there is a German place here in Helen that only cooks it on new year's Eve.I told him..you are welcome to go and bring it home. ..Jim, I love pickled herring in sour-cream..put on crackers.Swedish F/I/l loved it with hard-boiled eggs............The next American Holiday for cooking..St. Patrick's Day..Now, that's when I will have the cabbage with cornbeef. Geting hungry typing this. Bonnie

 

[geebee]

Bonnie,

One of the German dishes for New Year's is made from a veal shank but I can't recall the name right now. I think the dish can be made with pork shanks also but the veal is more tender. We used to go to a German tavern when we lived in New Jersey that made the dish every year for their New Year's party. It's very good, if done right, tender and juicy. Almost wish I were back in New Jersey.

 

[Granbonny]

Gina

Gina

Asked hubby to spell it for me....Schwin Haxin???Said it was coated with a very good honey? based coating..then grilled..and when opened..was wonderful.. Maybe I will surprise him and order a take-out for New Year's Eve. ..This is a man that speaks 5 different languages..I speak 1..Southern.. ..Born a Yankee raised in Sweden..I was born in Alabama and raised in Alabama.. He eats all my home cooking..except Grits and okra.. ....We will be married 40 years this coming Sept..Guess..Opposites do attract. Bonnie

 

[Superbob]

Pass the grits and okra!

Pass the grits and okra!

He passes up the grits and okra? Unbelievable. Them is FINE Southern food. Yum!

 

[Phyllis]

Dick and I are celebrating New Year's Eve with our 5 and 7 year old grandaughters while their parents get a break and spend New Years in Coral Gables-they both graduated from UM undergraduate and like to go back when they are visiting here in FL. So Grandma and Grandpa will most likely be having hamburgers for dinner and I bought some funny hats and noisemakers at Publix today (hope the neighbors don't mind ). We should all be in bed by 8 PM!