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here in North Carolina the New Years meal
has black eyed peas and collards or cabbage
the story goes you will make a dollar for every black-eyed pea
you eat
back home in MI my mom would have
either sour kraut or Cole slaw and herring
(she was of Norwegian decent.) my Dad was
German so he was good with that ...
how about you guys ...
Dave in VA
(2,039 posts)cabbage, black eyed peas, corn bread, green beans with roasted peppers and onions, ham, and various desserts.
And yes I do all the cooking. Everyone else just brings their appetite and a few containers to carry more home!
Silver Gaia
(4,546 posts)paired with jambalaya and collards
Freddie
(9,273 posts)MUST have pork and sauerkraut on New years day. I hate sauerkraut (there goes my Dutchie cred).
MOMFUDSKI
(5,637 posts)herring in a jar that would bring one good luck in the New Year. My parents would encourage me to just have a little bite but NO. Never did.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Last edited Mon Dec 26, 2022, 02:01 AM - Edit history (1)
I thought you just had to have it in your possession, like on the shelf in the pantry or in the fridge even. My parents always had pickled fish in jars and cans in the pantry and the fridge, they actually ate some of that stuff. I would go in another room and gag.
We have Fin in our heritage and a lot of the fish thing came from that end of the family so I thought that, maybe, just having it in store was good luck or something - I never asked - but if, in order to have the good luck* ...if you have to eat it, hell no!
*Which is arbitrary at best, I'm sure!
peacefreak2.0
(1,023 posts)pickled herring at my Grandmothers house. I bought a jar for the holidays. Tried to share it, nobody seems interested. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Retrograde
(10,156 posts)I still like pickled herring though - and it's not just a New Year's thing!
trof
(54,256 posts)Delicious
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)like many purportedly omnipresent Southern traditions, I never heard of it during my upbringing in the South, but only after I moved away.
Perhaps that's because it's really more of an African-American tradition, and I'm not AA. There are many variations, with black-eyed peas evidently being the later version, but rice, peas, and at least some pork appear to be the essentials. When you mentioned the dollar for each black-eyed pea, that's when I was reminded of Hoppin' John.
https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/dining/saving-southern-recipes-old-fashioned-hoppin-john/uUBhUeCZaAy5QYzF921EhJ/
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)It's a nice change.
I also never heard of it until I came across it in a cookbook and decided to try it.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)It was tamales for Xmas, too, so these were likely frozen then nuked. They're just as good the second time, nuked.
Tamales were the original MRE, sent out with Aztec raiders because they'd stay hot and good for hours. They take a long time to wrap and steam, so they're a seasonal treat in most families.
I'm glad I left Hoppin' John far behind. Tamales are better.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)and the signs for tamales go up about 3 weeks prior to Thanksgiving. There are a ton of places to order them.
My sister in law is 2nd generation Mexican and her mom brings tamales to the holiday parties. They are SO good!
Warpy
(111,339 posts)and they were fantastic. I think some asshole complained, though, and the public health laws governing food here are stupidly ferocious, so I haven't seen her for a few years. I miss her. Fucking bureaucrats.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)Not at the Same Time. I live in the DFW area and you better get your Tamale order in early, way before Christmas. Usually a long line at the Tamale Factory.
Have a large ham in the fridge, planned to cook on New Years along with Hoppin' John, collard greens and cornbread. not now, my gas is turned off, have a gas leak in my house, so we are camping out at me daughter's place They couldn't find outside, so they have to go under the house, will be there on Tuesday,
I am just glad I called the gas company. Saw on TV that people in our area were having trouble with gas pressure and I thought that might be my problem. My furnace wasn't putting out enough heat.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)I think I will steam up a cabbage this year.
I was surprised when visiting my daughter that her mother in law (who is Kurdish/Iranian) keeps black eyed peas in her pantry. Actually Persian food uses a lot of dried beans. One year my daughter & I cooked the peas and I made cornbread; her mother in law had never eaten cornbread and she liked it.
Long years ago I spent a New Year's weekend in Maine with some college friends. His mother always made a boiled dinner. She used a smoked shoulder instead of corned beef, and put potatoes, carrots, turnips, parsnips and rutabaga then packed cabbage on top towards the end.
hippywife
(22,767 posts)My mom used to mention that black-eyed peas brought luck, but she knew she'd never get us to eat them.
Now, my own is pork roast with sauerkraut. I didn't think I would like sauerkraut until I spent New Year's Day with the family of a roommate. That's what they were having, so to be polite I ate it, and in the process, found I loved it and eat it through the year. But New Year's Day is as convenient an excuse to have pork and sauerkraut as any.
trof
(54,256 posts)Black eyed peas and collards.
Collards = dollars
Black eyed peas = coins (Gold?)
Corn bread just because
Wealth in the New Year
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)I'm constantly amazed by them.
For a while, when I was married and had two kids, I'd have cold cuts and salads out on New Year's Day. It was sort of my tradition for a while, but nothing that stuck.