Today is New Year's Day and we sill start the new year like we do every year, with a meal of ham, black eyed peas cooked with hog jowl, collard greens and cornbread. It is supposed to be a lucky meal and I suppose I would eat it even if I did not like all the components, but I am a traditionally raised southern gal and really do like all of it. On New Year's we call it our good luck meal, other days we just call it dinner.
How many of you have a traditional meal to usher in a new year and if you don't mind share what it is.
Also do any of you know the traditions origins? Mine is just because I grew up with it.
This is not a photo of our actual meal. I won't be cooking it until later this evening so this is just a random picture, but it looks much the same minus the corn bread. Oh and for the sake of disclosure our iced tea will be sweet but our corn bread won't!
How many of you have a traditional meal to usher in a new year and if you don't mind share what it is.
Also do any of you know the traditions origins? Mine is just because I grew up with it.
We have pork (bone-in pork loin), usually mashed potatoes (put canned potatoes in with the pork) and sauerkraut. My dh believes that if you eat any form of chicken on New Years Day you scratch for money the rest of the year. We are doomed, I gave him hm soup with chicken broth for lunch. He'll get over it.
ReplyDeleteI am from the north and unsweetened tea and slightly sweet cornbread. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteI can do unsweetened tea but sweet cornbread is pretty much a blasphemy.
DeleteYikes! I'm with Cheryl. I like syrup on my corn bread in fact. Sorry!
DeleteI know a lot of people north of the Mason Dixon like it that way.
DeleteNo traditional new year meal here! I'm very bad at traditions, I change everything all the time. About the only thing I insist on is hot cross buns for breakfast on Easter Day.
ReplyDeleteYour meal looks like great comfort food, which is a good thing in the middle of winter!
Our Easter meal can is is anything, so I have no traditions there. In fact, NYS is the only absolute I observe. Alll other holidays are variations of something traditional or some entirely new meal.
DeleteWe would have the traditional turkey, mince pies and Christmas pudding on Christmas Day but I used to think "yuck mince pies and Christmas pudding" so I put a stop to that when I had my own family. I also did NOT make a turkey for Christmas Day (I made mustard filet of beef - lovely) because I hate being "told" what to do. Weird I know. I agree with Cheryl though that we didn't eat meat that "scratched backwards" on New Year's Day either for the same reason. Anna
ReplyDeleteFunny, I had never heard of scratching backwards before! I guess we all grow up hearing different stories of what is lucky!
DeleteAnything leftover that needs to go....I start out he new year NOT cooking :)
ReplyDeleteStarting the year not cooking sounds like a good idea!
DeleteNew Year’s Day is always blackeyed peas cooked with a little diced ham, white rice, cornbread and stir fried cabbage. This year, my daughter cooked the cabbage and peas and invited us over. I took the rice and cornbread.
ReplyDeleteYou have basically the same meal. We have done Hoppin John many times but tend to like everything separate.
DeleteYum! I don’t do hog jowls, but we do ham or bacon in ours. We made a version of Hoppin’ John today.
ReplyDeleteI buy the bacon sliced jowl, use 2 slices then freeze the rest until the summer when I find it again and throw it out.
DeleteI am with Kylie. No traditional meal here. And indeed I think I had fruit salad (leftover) for dinner and himself had left over turkey. Co-incidence.
ReplyDeleteLike Kylie hot cross buns are a MUST at Easter. And I resent seeing them in the stores for months beforehand.
Hot cross buns are so pretty, but look like a pain to make, so I don't!
DeleteNo tradition here- leftovers and throwing away the sweets. I used to make cole slaw New Year's day but didn't have the cabbage here this year.
ReplyDeleteWe are huge college football fans, so we are delaying the official tossing of the sweets until next Monday night after the last game.
DeleteMilk rice is our traditional New Year's Day food. Basically, it is rice cooked with milk (often coconut milk, but, sometimes, regular milk), a little like rice pudding, but it is not sweet. It is eaten, on New Year's Day for breakfast, with spicy onion sambols, or curries, or jaggery (palm sugar), accompanied by bananas and various other sweets.
ReplyDeleteI made my milk rice at midnight, after I boiled the pot of milk until it overflowed (another New Year's tradition). Later in the morning, one of my friends prepared a tray with the traditional New Year's breakfast foods (and some additional chocolates and sweets) and brought for my daughter and me; I posted a picture of it on my blog.
I think traditions are fun and it is so interesting to hear about others traditions! I have learned so much from what you have shared.
DeleteBlackeyed peas is the tradition for me. Of course, the greens and ham go along with that. I went to a New Year morning every year. I carried the blackeyed peas and coleslaw. People brought an assortment of food--leftover cakes and candy, eggs and bacon to cook breakfast, bowl of cherries. Since I was the only one of these women to cook peas, my peas were always gone before the day was over. My tea and cornbread had no sugar.
ReplyDeleteI would have assumed you did peas too!
DeleteI grew up eating pork, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes (or noodles). Sometimes it was hot dogs or kielbasa as the pork, with buns instead of potatoes or noodles. But usually a pork roast cooked with sauerkraut. I always assumed it was a conglomerate of PA Dutch and Germanic traditions, although I don't know more than that. Michael grew up with Hoppin' John. We go back and forth between which one we have any given year, although this year I goofed and forgot to put the pork in early enough....so we're having it today. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteWe were in London one NYE/NYD and had to wait until we returned home to eat ours. Fortunately Mom cooked extra and we had it as soon as we walked in the door on the 4th.
DeleteNothing traditional here - just being as creative as I can with the leftovers. Like other commenters I start tossing out the sweets as well. I was glad to see that Kazi had finished off the Bailey's in her coffee - the recycle bin is getting really full :)
ReplyDeleteI think everyone is ditching the leftovers and sweets right now. My body is screaming for intense veggie meals now.
DeleteI love corn bread, Canadians don't often serve it although my Ukrainian husband makes a mean cornbread style souffle (Nachynka http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/ukrainian-nachynka-cornmeal-dressing-78470) that is to die for (and a lot of calories as we use lots of butter). Happy New Year Anne!
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