Posted on 12/30/2022 3:19:18 PM PST by DallasBiff
It’s no coincidence that pork chops and sauerkraut are traditional holiday dishes, especially on New Year’s Day.
This meal symbolizes wealth and prosperity for the coming year in German-American culture
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Black-eye peas with smoked ham hocks and corn bread. New Year’s Day tradition for me going on +65 years
Black-eyed peas and fried cabbage here every New Year’s Day.
My mother’s family was Savannah crackers.
New Year’s dinner is ham, greens, and Hoppin Johns
Pierogis...That was tonight’s dinner. I cooked a strip of bacon with my butter/onions. Will do again.
It’s a big tradition for New Year’s Day, here in PA.
Ham hock and barley (moms traditional)
Beans and spuds (mom in law)
Me? I vary but it’s usually a simple meal because Christmas has been a dining extravaganza. Heck, the lead up to Thanksgiving was pretty good too!
So wild rice and tiny sweet peas this year. And thank the Lord!
Been eating real good since the run up to Thanksgiving...Fish & Game, Surf & Turf, Italian, Southern, Southwestern, Gullah... ever since mid November. Whew!
Never heard of it.
Well, I don’t recall that for my family, and my moms family were pork packers in Baltimore.
We are big on sauerkraut though. And while I appreciate the simple pork with sauerkraut, our family recipe of sausage meatballs cooked in sauerkraut is really much more spectacular!
Yum. All of that! (Vernor’s for va va VOOM!)
Northeast?
There are hardly any Germans beyond New York. New England has virtually no trace, except my (Wisconsin) grandparents ended up in Maine with all their children and most of them are also very New-Englandish.
Meanwhile Maryland was a huge port for Germans, but we hardly get any credit (either Maryland, or Germans). Never mind the oldest broods all along the Appalachians in mid-Atlantic.
Yep, always
Don’t forget the cornbread, greens and hog jowls to go with those peas. You eat this to on New Year’s to get good luck for the year.
Each leaf of greens (turnip, mustard, collards or cabbage) you eat will grant you a green dollar each according to folk lore.
Hoppin John is our good luck New Years dinner. Hasn’t worked too well lately.
I’d eat sauerkraut anytime if others would.
I love it on hot dogs, and it is far too neglected as a frankfurter condiment.
And our family sausage recipe with it. And I’ll just eat it by itself.
In Campo, Colorado, New Years Day was always Black Eyed Peas.
Pizza is so overplayed.
It’s everywhere, so is not really of great value. You can’t avoid it.
I like pizza, but I get sick of it more than once a week (virtually necessary with picky hubby).
Yep...We also do the greens and cornbread, but we do ham instead of hog jowls...
Where I live it is pork jowls and black eyed peas.
Yuck! Give me steak!
“We don’t”.
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