[TexasMatty]

I am curious to know what y'all will be eating New Years Day. Here in Texas it's all about ham, greens, black eyes, red eye gravy, sweet taters, and Pecan pie. I put the ham on the pit at about 6am, get the greens going with some bacon and onion, cook the black eyes with garlic, bacon and onions, and I use my leftover coffee grounds for the gravy. What do y'all do in other parts of our great nation?

[1rudeboy]

Chicago. Beer.

[NittanyLion]

Pork, sauerkraut and mashed potatos here in PA.

[cripplecreek]

My family doesn’t really do anything special for new years day. Maybe I’ll go ice fishing.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Alka Seltzer.

[Sybeck1]

In Mississippi, its collard and turnip greens, as poke salad is out of season for money in the next year, my grandma tells me. Some hamhocks, and maybe some deer meat. And some black eyed peas and pinto beans and cornbread.

And also, we don’t wash clothes on the 1st. Old tale around here you are washing for the dead, or that person will die that year.

[SF Republican]

Crab and champagne.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Black eyed peas for good luck, Cabbage for financial success.... football, beer and hopefully someone to clean up the kitchen!

[poobear]

Black-eyed peas with smoked hocks, short ribs slow cooked in pintos and jalapeno peppers, collard greens, white rice, corn bread and beer. Oh yes, and lots of football!

[Xenalyte]

Don’t forget the beer! That helps the black-eyed peas go down. :)

[FredHead47]

coffee grounds in the gravy?

[RooRoobird20]

Menudo, of course!!!

(I have to cover it with LOTS of chopped cilantro, green onions, and ground chili peppers because otherwise it’s too disgusting-looking to eat LOL)

[Clemenza]

I miss having a roasted pig with my friends when I lived in Miami.

New Years Dinner for me this year will probably be lobster.

[angcat]

We have lobster on New Years Eve. On 1/1 we have ham which I hate so I am also making baked Ziti.

[wardaddy]

Pork....sweet potatoes, black eyed peas, corn bread.

Some egg nog (yes again) the night before or on occasion instead on New Years Day evening

Homemade Nog.....bourbon, eggs, cream, sugar.....whipped then folded

some folks don’t do ambrosia till New Years Day

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!