New Years Day food.(Vanity)

My fecund brain | 12/27/07 | Me

[TexasMatty]

It’s one of those foods you can’t look at when you eat it. LOL.

LOL! There is a lot of Mexican food that you may not want to look directly at. Sesos is one, lengua is another.It dosn't bother me as I only have three things I won't eat. A:Bananas, B:Eggplant, and C:Cauliflower. Other than that it's open season.

[angcat]

My husband loves Pork and my mom makes a mean Sweet Potato Pie. I’m not much into meat or pork.

Enjoy your feast!

[Grampa Dave]

Most of the time I cook black eyed peas/beans with smoked ham hocks and some type of greens as a side (fresh greens if possible or frozen if no fresh greens are available).

I also cook up a small side of Zatarain’s New Orleans Red Beans and Rice for those who don’t like black eyed peas/beans. Our grandkids haven’t developed a taste for the blackeyed bean cousins, and they love the red beans and rice.

If we have guests, who don’t like the black eyed beans, I will cook up a large pot of Zatarain’s New Orleans Style Jambalaya Mix. I will add shrimp, firm white fish, and a good spicy sausage to the pot. I will fix a side of greens to go with the Jambalaya to things from jamming up.

If the food is just for my wife and I, I will fix cornbread with honey, some spicy cheese and a few dashes of Hot Sauce. If we have guests, there will be another cornbread with only honey added to it.

The cornbread with more honey on the table is also the dessert.

[grame]

I can tell you what we won’t be eating at my house. The recipe we tried about 20 years ago when my children were ages 7 to 16.
My mother had given me a recipe for cabbage rolls, food you are supposed to eat on New Year’s Day, and at the time we were on a program where we had to try at least one brand new recipe or food every month. The recipe called for gr beef, tomato sauce, etc plus tapioca then you made large meatballs and wrapped them in cabbage leaves and baked.
HaHa. I think she gave us a recipe for tennis balls. Those things were horrible, awful and I will never live them down. To this day someone will remind me of them if someone brings up cabbage.
Bad food, great memory.

[pandoraou812]

When I first got married & was a new cook I did a cabbage dish too. It was ham , carrots, cabbage & potato's all boiled together. My husband got red cabbage & everything turned an awful color. Being broke we ate it anyway & still laugh over my purplish dinner.

[SuzanneWeeks]

Slovak Stuffed Cabbage

“Here’s a five-generation family favorite. Parboiled cabbage leaves are stuffed with a mix of ground beef, ground pork, and rice, layered with sauerkraut and bacon, and baked.”

INGREDIENTS:
1 pound ground beef
1 pound ground pork
1 onion, chopped
1 teaspoon salt
black pepper to taste
1 teaspoon chopped fresh
parsley
1/2 cup cooked brown rice
1 1/4 teaspoons garlic salt 2 (10.75 ounce) cans
condensed tomato soup
27 ounces sauerkraut, drained
1 (29 ounce) can diced
tomatoes
1 medium head cabbage
2 tablespoons white sugar
3 cups water
Pork Bones

DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bring a pot of water to a boil.
2. Mix beef and pork together. Stir in onion, cooked rice, parsley, salt, pepper, garlic salt and 1/2 can of tomato soup. Mix well.
3. Core head of cabbage, place in boiling water and boil until partly cooked. Separate leaves and trim stems. Reserve about 24 to 32 whole leaves. Cut remaining leaves and line the bottom of large roasting pan, add the pork bones (left overs from Bone in Pork Chops WORK GREAT)
4. Lightly pack a small handful of the meat mixture and place in the center of a cabbage leaf. Fold top part of leaf over mixture, then fold in the sides and roll until mixture is completely encased. Lay rolls on top of torn cabbage leaves in pan. Place sauerkraut evenly over rolls. (you can leave the sauerkraut out if you want) Sprinkle with 1 to 2 tablespoons of sugar. Mix chopped tomatoes and soup with water and pour over rolls. (you can use a can of tomatoe soup if you want, this is what I do) Add additional water to reach top of cabbage rolls.
5. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 1/2 hours or until cooked through.

[SamAdams76]

Chinese food is the big tradition for my New Year's Eve. We show up at the restaurant around 3PM and get through about three scorpion bowls and then we order a whole mess of take-out to bring home. Then we spend the night nibbling pork strips, teriyaki beef and all that other MSG-infested stuff.

Then the next morning, we vow to stay away from chinese food for the New Year. Or at least until Dec 31.

[nomorelurker]

Blackeyed peas (with salt pork), cornbread, cooked greens (any kind will do) that’s the traditional stuff, we also have ham. I hear all kinds of stories about this meal, green means money etc. My mother always told me that if you were poor in Northeast Texas and looked around for something to eat on New Years Day what you found was a few old dried blackeyed peas, some cornmeal, a few greens still hanging on in the garden and the last bit of the hog you killed in the fall.

[SoothingDave]

Stuffed cabbage, aka Halupki, aka “hunky hand grenades” are obligatory food at weddings here.

[grame]

I wouldn’t have wanted to give my children any ideas that day. They were all starving, and I fear I would have been the target, and my husband would have joined in! Next time it comes up, I’ll have to remember to tell them.

[grame]

Ya know, this looks pretty close but the recipe we had contained tapioca. And no roast pork to fall back on. I think if I tried to serve this again, I’d be eating alone, even though now I have 10 grandchildren. My reputation with cabbage rolls is ruined forever.

[grame]

One of only a couple of times they refused to eat one of the ‘new’ recipes we tried. And we were not newly married, but broke most of the time anyway with four children. I learned read recipes differently, so I could better gauge how they would turn out. A new recipe is one thing, weird they didn’t want any part of.

[buck61]

What do y’all do in other parts of our great nation?

Turnips, dried beans cooked in a Ham, sweet onion, corn bread,
mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, and the cream de la cram, Ham Hocks.

[FredHead47]

THAT’s why they call it Red Eye Gravy!

v8-headsmack

I did not know that.

Happy New Year and Thanks!

[TankerKC]

Pork, sauerkraut and mashed potatos here in PA.

Meatballs (hamburger and pork sausage), sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. We eat them right at mid-night for good luck the next year.

Tradition from my wife's Slovak family in eastern OH.

[ShadowDancer]

They are a Michigan thing and they totally rock.

[TankerKC]

That sounds like what we call “Halupki.”

[NittanyLion]

That sounds like what we call “Halupki.”

My family (Austrian) calls that Halupki as well.

[ShadowDancer]

My husband’s family is Hungarian and that’s what they call it. All of my Polish friends called it golumpki.

[Rudder]

Crock pot Pork roast (with lots of onions, carrots, celery in the pot) with brown sugar and mustard glaze

Mashed potatoes with liquid from the roast as gravy

Homemade horseradish applesauce

Eat to just short of the bursting point---Happy New Year!