New Year's Day food traditions?
Skyhooks
bring good luck for the upcoming year. Although I disliked them as a
kid, I was told in no uncertain terms to eat at least one of those nasty
"pills" <g>.
So, who has what tradition(s) for New Year's Day?
Sky, who still doesn't eat black-eyed peas
Margaret Suran
Jelly Doughnuts. At Midnight. I cannot eat them, as fried dough
makes me violently ill.
sf
<skyh...@NOsbcglobal.SnPeAtM> wrote:
>Sky, who still doesn't eat black-eyed peas
I was brought up with absolutely no good luck traditions for new
years. My husband's family ate noodles... long noodles = long life.
When niece married a Texan, I heard about the black eyed pea thing
which I just don't understand. Unlike you, I *love* blackeyed peas.
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Lisa Ann
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In my family we have to eat some form of cabbage...my mom's family always
did fried cabbage, my ex-husband's always did sauerkraut. Last year I ate
pickled red cabbage. Some years we'd eat slaw. It didn't matter *how* the
cabbage was fixed, but you had to have cabbage!
Corned beef or pork crown roast was the meat course, depending on whether
the cabbage was fried or sauerkraut.
Lisa Ann
Vickie in Utah
Nobody in ouf family liked black-eyed peas so my Mother and/or
Grandmother made them like backed beans. Everybody else ate them but
since I don't like those either I would just choke down one. There was
also always cabbage of some sort. All day long was an open house so
there was tons of food and football. I remember one year when my
younger sister and I wanted a "bicycle built for 2", our Father told us
that if we could find some place that would sell us one on New Year's
Day he would buy it. We spent hours trying to call every place that
sold bikes. Finally we got someone to answer the phone. It was a bike
shop and the lady was there doing paperwork but was not open. She did
not have what we wanted but when we told her why we needed it that day
she said if she had one she would let us come buy it. We went and told
Dad and he said that was good enough for him so the next day he took us
shopping and we got our bicycle. In case you are wondering, yes, we
were spoiled rotten. LOL
Vickie
Serene
<skyh...@NOsbcglobal.SnPeAtM> wrote:
>In my family, black-eyed peas were always served on New Year's Day to
>bring good luck for the upcoming year. Although I disliked them as a
>kid, I was told in no uncertain terms to eat at least one of those nasty
>"pills" <g>.
>
>So, who has what tradition(s) for New Year's Day?
In my family of origin, it was sausages (usually breakfast links) and
champagne (sparkling cider for the kids). Don't ask me why.
Serene
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The French-Canadian side of our family (quite a few, cousins by
marriage) claimed that if you didn't eat ham on New Year's Day your
belly button would fall off.
We never had New Year's traditional food. I'm guessing it was just
too close to the excesses of Christmas food.
modom (palindrome guy)
<skyh...@NOsbcglobal.SnPeAtM> wrote:
Black eyes for luck and cabbage for money. Corned beef sneaks in
there somehow, too. I know not why.
You might Google up a recipe or two for Texas caviar to make black
eyed peas more palatable.
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modom
Goomba38
>> So, who has what tradition(s) for New Year's Day?
>>
>> Sky, who still doesn't eat black-eyed peas
>
> Black eyes for luck and cabbage for money. Corned beef sneaks in
> there somehow, too. I know not why.
I learned that in Spain they eat sweet grapes one by one at the stroke
of midnight, to bring in a sweet year.
Virginia Tadrzynski
"Skyhooks" <skyh...@NOsbcglobal.SnPeAtM> wrote in message
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Hog Jowls, collard greens and black eyed peas. (rural NC)
-ginny
Andy
No food traditions. Wake up and watch the Mummer's parade here in
Philadelphia, switching back and forth to the Rose Parade in Pasadena after
it begins, switching back and forth to the Outback Bowl, go Penn State,
then the Rose Bowl Game. GO USC!!!
Maybe a little hair o' the dog that bit me and some cold cheesesteak for
breakfast. Likely, pizza and more beer for the bowl games.
Andy
"No Resolutions!"
yetanotherBob
@comcast.net says...
> I learned that in Spain they eat sweet grapes one by one at the stroke
> of midnight, to bring in a sweet year.
>
>
one into your boca at each stroke of the clock at 12 midnight. It's a
pretty cool tradition and a lot of fun. Of course, if you're three
sheets to the wind by that time (on that occasion, a common state of
consciousness), you've got to be a bit careful about getting your
chewing and swallowing in sync.
Nevertheless, it's probably a bit less hazardous for the severely
inebriated than the Japanese thing with mochi on New Year's.
Bob
Virginia Tadrzynski
"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:Xns98A5DDF...@216.196.97.136...
Ah, the Mummers. I remember when it was drunken men in panty hose and
feathers, before they allowed women and all the 'sponsors'.
-ginny
(who prefers the original route up Broad Street)
Marcella Peek
Skyhooks <skyh...@NOsbcglobal.SnPeAtM> wrote:
Tamales.
It takes a couple days to make them...day one the chili, day two
assembly before we can feast on them for New Years.
marcella
Andy
> Ah, the Mummers. I remember when it was drunken men in panty hose and
> feathers, before they allowed women and all the 'sponsors'.
> -ginny
> (who prefers the original route up Broad Street)
ginny,
They got the Broad Street parade route a few years ago.
http://riverfrontmummers.com/graphics/mapbroad03.jpg
I arrived in Philadelphia in 1991, about the last year they allowed the fun
of old. :(((
Andy
sf
<yetano...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Nevertheless, it's probably a bit less hazardous for the severely
>inebriated than the Japanese thing with mochi on New Year's.
Please explain! I'm all ears.
Kris
pickled herring at midnight for good luck. Luckily, I love the stuff.
:)
Kris
s.a.s...@gmail.com
Kris wrote:
> I'm half German, and have been told it's a tradition to eat some
> pickled herring at midnight for good luck. Luckily, I love the stuff. :)
I am German; though I have not lived there for a number of years - just
visits to friends and family. The pickled herring sounds like from the
North of Germany but even when I lived in Hamburg, I saw nobody doing
that (you can do it, if you like ;-) What is a must, is to have a
party (food what you and your guests like) and then watch the fireworks
at midnight; yes, even rural areas have those and kids beg to able to
stay up for it plus you must open the champagne bottles and drink the
stuff to welcome the New Year! Of course, the parties then go on. I
still don't get it how some people prefer to sleep through the change
of the years....
Happy 2007 and a great party for its welcome! --Stephanie
zxcvbob
I always eat black-eyed peas on New Years Day, even though I don't like
them very much. I don't eat them for good luck, but to remember my Great
Aunt Mary, who was very superstitious and actually believed in the good luck.
Best regards,
Bob, a native East Texan (now living in Minnesota)
Blair P. Houghton
> So, who has what tradition(s) for New Year's Day?
1. Make hangover jokes.
2. Get shitfaced.
3. Make hangover noises.
--Blair
sf
You just reminded me (via the noise of fireworks)... neighbors who
were of Irish extraction used to go to their back door at midnight to
bang on pots and pans which was supposed to keep away bad luck in the
new year.
sf
wrote:
>Skyhooks wrote:
>>
>> Sky, who still doesn't eat black-eyed peas
>
>
>I always eat black-eyed peas on New Years Day, even though I don't like
>them very much. I don't eat them for good luck, but to remember my Great
>Aunt Mary, who was very superstitious and actually believed in the good luck.
>
Awwww! That's sooo nice!
shir...@hotmail.com
Enh... nobody really paid any attention to New Year's Day in my family
after the Christmas blowout. It was pretty much an afterthought with
everyone slumped in front of the TV for the Rosebowl or reading or
whatever. Mostly because we knew the Dread Return to School was just
around the corner.
For a long time, I spent each New Year's Eve with a friend of mine, and
we often ate Creme Caramel for dessert after midnight. Sometimes, I'll
have a late New Year's Eve lunch consisting of Pate on crackers, which
I adore. But that's as close as I've ever come to any sort of
tradition.
Melissa
prfe...@hotmail.com
> In my family, black-eyed peas were always served on New Year's Day to
> bring good luck for the upcoming year. Although I disliked them as a
> kid, I was told in no uncertain terms to eat at least one of those nasty
> "pills" <g>.
>
> So, who has what tradition(s) for New Year's Day?
Hello Sky:
Pork and sauerkraut was the tradition, because it made one prosperous.
Baked together in a large roaster for hours. In deference to
eleventeen kids who didn't much care for the pork, Dad always threw in
a few dozen hot dogs. (It scared me to think what life would have been
like if we hadn't eaten the kraut on New Year's. Ye gods and little
fishes, if THIS was PROSPERITY, what was poverty like?? <grin>)
Dad and Mom still do the pork-and-kraut, but we don't. Mainly because
I'm the only one in this family that loves kraut.
Best -- Terry
Nancy Young
<prfe...@hotmail.com> wrote
> Pork and sauerkraut was the tradition, because it made one prosperous.
> Baked together in a large roaster for hours.
I didn't know that pork roast and sauerkraut was a New Year's
tradition. My inlaws made it, I thought it was nuts. Tried it, liked it!
Haven't had that in some time, just isn't as good any more with the
leaner pork. Can barely find pork roast with bones, for pete's sake.
But I will be making that soon.
New Year's Day, maybe?
nancy
LT
> bring good luck for the upcoming year. Although I disliked them as a
> kid, I was told in no uncertain terms to eat at least one of those nasty
> "pills" <g>.
>
> So, who has what tradition(s) for New Year's Day?
>
Black eyed peas
Grapes
Pickled herring
Plus anything else someone says brings good luck. I like to cover all the
bases.
Larry T
George
Thats definitely a tradition in our family but enjoy it a lot so we have
it a lot more frequently. I usually buy the country ribs when making
pork & sauerkraut. Its also does really well in the crockpot. I brown
the pork with some onions and then put alternating layers of
pork/sauerkraut/potato slices and a sliced apple in and let it go all day.
You just need to go to a real market to get the pork. There is a large
family owned Italian market in our area that has meat cutters and
doesn't have the "Walmart style meat". They do a big meat business and
there is always a good selection on display but they will happily
produce almost anything you want if you ring the bell.
Goomba38
> You just reminded me (via the noise of fireworks)... neighbors who
> were of Irish extraction used to go to their back door at midnight to
> bang on pots and pans which was supposed to keep away bad luck in the
> new year.
>
I recall while living in a small village in Germany that at midnight a
lot of rifles shot off in celebration.
It can't be only German though because a lot of areas of North Carolina
and elsewhere in the South do it also.
cybercat
<sf> wrote
>
> You just reminded me (via the noise of fireworks)... neighbors who
> were of Irish extraction used to go to their back door at midnight to
> bang on pots and pans which was supposed to keep away bad luck in the
> new year.
>
Probably because, traditionally the Irish were the ones with nothing to put
IN their pots and pans. I'm making Hoppin' John. Mmmm.
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yetanotherBob
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:49:43 -0500, yetanotherBob
> <yetano...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Nevertheless, it's probably a bit less hazardous for the severely
> >inebriated than the Japanese thing with mochi on New Year's.
>
>
> Please explain! I'm all ears.
>
>
- - - - - - - -
New Year?s Death Toll Mounts
Monday, January 3rd, 2005
Every year, a number of people choke to death on mochi, pounded sticky
rice cakes, in Japan during the New Year?s holiday. The Mainichi Daily
News reports this year?s death toll at four so far, and fifteen remain
in critical condition.
The Asashi Newspaper reports that in Tokyo 26 people were taken to the
hospital by ambulance, one died, and fifteen are in critical condition.
Choking on mochi is a particular problem for the elderly. 24 of the 26
were over the age of 60.
To keep from choking to death the Tokyo Fire Department recommends
cutting mochi and meat into small pieces, eating slowly, and not eating
alone.
- - - - - - - -
And here's a link to the mandatory Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochi_(food)
If you've never eaten Japanese mochi, it's sweet and a tad sticky when
it's fresh, and imo, very addictive.
Japanese folks traditionally make it by hand on New Year's eve/day, and
consume it along with copious amounts of beer, sake, etc. as part of the
celebrations. If they don't make at home, it's sold everywhere with
festive wrappings and various flavorings for the occasion. I could see
where, if you were a bit (or a lot) tipsy, laughing and having a good
old time, you could inhale the chunk you're chewing pretty easily.
I was over there in the 1970's, and it happened then, and it will
probably continue to happen through the 2070's. That and poisonings
from eating fugu.
Bob
TammyM
I'd not heard of this tradition until housemate moved in. She
couldn't find the "proper" sauerkraut (?) in the local grocery store
(Albertson's in Sacramento), so we'll make a trek to Morant's deli in
South Sac in a day or two for the good stuff. And I'll buy some nice
sausages and tilsit cheese, to be sure. Pork spareribs for matey's
dish are in the freezer.
I usually make a black-eyed pea soup, throwing in a large-ish amount
of kale or chard. It's very good. This is a pressure cooker recipe,
but adapt it as you wish. I usually goof around with the ingredients
more than a bit ;-)
Black-Eyed Pea & Sausage Soup
2 cups (12 ounces) dried black-eyed peas, sorted and rinsed
1/2 pound bacon, diced
1 large red onion, minced
3 garlic cloves, chopped
6 cups chicken broth
1/4 cup tomato paste
2 teaspoons dried Greek oregano
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 pound turkey kielbasa, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/3 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/3 cup parsley, chopped coarsely
Soak peas for 4 hours or use quick-soak method.
Saute bacon until crisp. Add onion and garlic and cook until onion is
softened, about 3 minutes. Add peas to bacon mixture and stir well.
Add broth, tomato paste, oregano, bay leaf, salt and brown sugar. Stir
until thoroughly mixed. Secure lid. Over high heat, bring to high
pressure. Reduce heat to maintain pressure and cook 5 minutes. Release
pressure. Add kielbasa, bell pepper and parsley to soup. Bring to a
boil over high heat and cook, uncovered, for 3 minutes, stirring
occasionally. Discard bay leaf.
6-8 servings
sf
her family eats mochi on New Year's.
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sf
wrote:
>
>You just need to go to a real market to get the pork. There is a large
>family owned Italian market in our area that has meat cutters and
>doesn't have the "Walmart style meat". They do a big meat business and
>there is always a good selection on display but they will happily
>produce almost anything you want if you ring the bell.
Ye gods man! At least brag about which city you're in so others in
the area can sniff out that market!
:)
Nexis
"Nancy Young" <rjy...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Nancy,
Instead of a pork roast, my mom makes this with the "country style" pork ribs. Never
too lean, and preferably with the bones in. Works better than modern day roasts, IMO.
kimberly
cybercat
"TammyM" <m...@privacy.net> wrote
>>Dad and Mom still do the pork-and-kraut, but we don't. Mainly because
>>I'm the only one in this family that loves kraut.
>>
>>Best -- Terry
>
> I'd not heard of this tradition until housemate moved in. She
> couldn't find the "proper" sauerkraut (?) in the local grocery store
> (Albertson's in Sacramento), so we'll make a trek to Morant's deli in
> South Sac in a day or two for the good stuff. And I'll buy some nice
> sausages and tilsit cheese, to be sure. Pork spareribs for matey's
> dish are in the freezer.
>
> I usually make a black-eyed pea soup, throwing in a large-ish amount
> of kale or chard. It's very good. This is a pressure cooker recipe,
> but adapt it as you wish. I usually goof around with the ingredients
> more than a bit ;-)
In our German family (my mother's grandparents were Bavarian
immigrants) pork and sauerkraut was served as a side dish for
Christmas dinner.
yetanotherBob
>
> Thanks, Bob.... I sent this along to a Japanese friend and asked if
> her family eats mochi on New Year's.
>
> ``````````````````````````````
>
Of course, if they're living here in the U.S., they probably munch on
Buffalo wings and watch football on TV for New Year's, just like
everyone else...
Bob
Omelet
Skyhooks <skyh...@NOsbcglobal.SnPeAtM> wrote:
> In my family, black-eyed peas were always served on New Year's Day to
> bring good luck for the upcoming year. Although I disliked them as a
> kid, I was told in no uncertain terms to eat at least one of those nasty
> "pills" <g>.
>
> So, who has what tradition(s) for New Year's Day?
>
> Sky, who still doesn't eat black-eyed peas
Mom always made Eggs Benedict on New Years morning...
I'll probably be spending the night at the house that we'll party at,
but I'm considering taking ingredients, and making it there for
everyone. :-)
Either that or I'll make it for dad the next day.... Depends on what the
hosts have planned.
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sf
They live here, but retain many customs.
Biff
easy to prepare.The bacon brings warm weather and good luck...Biff
Tara
Cabbage for money
Cornbread
Tara
Jke
Oliebollen are fried yeast dough balls, usually with raisins. The dough is
differnet from doughnuts or German pfannkuchen/Berliner, because the Dutch
dough is amde without fat.
The Usual Suspect
Skyhooks wrote:
> In my family, black-eyed peas were always served on New Year's Day to
> bring good luck for the upcoming year. Although I disliked them as a
> kid, I was told in no uncertain terms to eat at least one of those nasty
> "pills" <g>.
>
> So, who has what tradition(s) for New Year's Day?
>
> Sky, who still doesn't eat black-eyed peas
I hated the peas, but loved the sterilized dimes that were put in for
luck.
readandpostrosie
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> here in wisconsin, creamed herring is a favorite for NEW YEARS DAY.
> (YUCK)
Yum! I had some in December, having not had any in years. Now I wish I
had some in front of me (SoCal) right now and that's not because it's
NY's Day. :)
Some brats would be nice, too...
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