What are traditional New Years Day/good luck in the new

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year foods ?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. Black eyed peas

I have to remember to run out and get some. I make them into a cold salad with a red wine vinagrette with onion, parsley, roasted red pepper, parsley and oranges. Yummm!

[Arkansas Granny]

16. I've got mine in the pot right now and they are smelling good.

I don't believe in the good luck part, but I just love them. I'm going to fix a tater tot casserole to go with them.

[hippywife]

2. Here in the south it's black-eyed peas

and I need to remember to pick some up for my husband. I grew up in Ohio and there it was pork with sauerkraut, which I much prefer to the BEPs.

[Callalily]

3. Oh, I'll be making some

black eyed pea soup tomorrow. Stay tuned for pictures. ;)

[Tesha]

4. lentils...

a pot of lentil soup is workin' away on the stove now.

Carrots and onions and celery and ham.
Someone once old me the flat round discs
were representative of coins, therefore prosperity.
It's also a nice dinner on a cold winter's night... :9

[EFerrari]

5. Same here. A nice big ham bone from our Christmas ham

carrots, celery and I threw in some stewed tomatoes and fresh basil. We're a little Italianate tonight, lol, with late supper of eggplant parmesan for stragglers. :)

[FarPoint]

6. Roasted Pork Loin with Fresh Sauerkraut-Potatoes and Kielbasa

I'm in the process of making this for several friends right now....

Of course, I brine my pork loins...say 12 hours. After the brining, I dry them off, and impregnate them with garlic cloves then sear them with seasoned flour in a hot as hell cast iron skillet with bacon drippings. ( I save mine for days like this).

Next, to roast, I prepare roasting pan by pouring in apple cider for moisture, easily covering the bottom; then rinse off the fresh sauerkraut( bought in store plastic bag)and squeeze out the water, cover the bottom of roaster pan bed with the kraut.

Next, add brown sugar 1 cup or more over the kraut, sprinkle red pepper flakes then add the loin to the bed. Next, julienne a large white onion...place over the loin...then, cover loin with some of the bed kraut and drizzle balsamic vinegar over the onion and kraut.....

Roast at 350 for about an hour.... During the cook time, prep the potatoes (yukon gold with skins left on...1/2 or 1/4) and get your kielbasa and smoke sausage out at room temperature...(I also use smoke sausage as well; similar to it's cousin kielbasa but with more flavor).

Take out of oven, add more liquid if needed...apple cider is my choice today, then place the potatoes, sausage and kielbasa around the loin.. I always 1/2 some of the kielbasa and top it over the loin so dripping ooze into the loin while it cooks....add more kraut on top of loin...say cook another 30 minutes or so.....


That's it.

[Tesha]

7. mmmm I can almost smell it...

one of our winter favorites, your friends are going to love the way the kraut melts in their mouths, and the pork is moist and tender.

and recipe from an old German friend calls for a few bay leaves, and a handful of whole peppercorns (probably in place of the pepper flakes) and quartered apples.

[FarPoint]

9. I have seen the apple used with pork so I

put my own twist into the dinner......I want lots of moisture so the apple cider was my choice; plus it can balance out the kraut. It indeed smells wonderful at the moment.

[Jazzgirl]

24. I just saw this post but I am so bookmarking it!

On edit:

I just added the recipe to my electronic cookbook program. Of course, I attributed it to you Callily! This recipe looks awesome!

[tigereye]

8. my mom often made corned beef, cabbage and Irish Soda bread

[FarPoint]

10. I have yet to try and make a corned beef....

Your mom worked really hard for a fine New Years feast, I know that much! I love corned beef and cabbage...the bread is a bonus! Yum-oh!

[tigereye]

11. I don't cook beef in my house, but I remember it tasted very good

we are having my husband's chicken curry. Yum. And I usually make gingerbread on NYE, not sure why.

[hippywife]

14. A few of us did it this year

thanx to Ms. Sazemisery and it was easy and great!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=236&topic_id=49633&mesg_id=49633

You pork loin dinner sounds fantastic. Enjoy and welcome to C&B! :hi:

[FarPoint]

15. Thank You! I bookmarked it....

I follow Michael Rhulman now....started in November so I didn't see this post. I have his book "Ratio" and just got Michael Symons book which he contributed to the writing. I also adore Thomas Keller...I got Ad Hoc last month...fantastic book.

I love this forum! :hug: :woohoo:

[Tesha]

12. Whoa! Found in our backup refrigerator downstairs: the corned rib left-overs from a few days ago!

Mr. Tesha used to love to eat at a local restaurant that,
once a week, served New England boiled dinner with your
choice of corned beef or corned pork ribs; he always
went for the corned pork ribs with that meat-falls-off-
the-bone goodness.

So a bit more than a month ago, he came home with some
marked-down baby back ribs and I did the corning thing
for him. We finally made the meal maybe a bit more than
a week ago and he took a couple of days of left-overs
into work with him for lunch, but we then forgot that
more left-overs had been ditched into the downstairs
'fridge. Well, until today when I found them. My first
thoughts were "Uh-oh, maybe I'd better let *HIM* open
up that container!" But he did and everything smelled
just the same as when it went in. (The 'fridge downstairs
keeps everything very cold, and the ribs were quite well
pickled before they were cooked.)

So our New Year's dinner switched from the planned
Cheese Fondue back to leftover corned ribs. ;)
Hey, you go with what life gives you, right?

And if you never hear from me again, well, then our
assessment of the state of the ribs wasn't so good.
But otherwise, yummmm! And the fondue and the bread
that I baked for it will happily wait for New Year's
Day!

Happy New Year's eve, everyone!

Tesha

[tigereye]

18. oh, now I am craving ribs, even when I was a vegetarian for years, I would

still crave them (and cheat occasionally!). :evilgrin:



Alas, I don't cook beef or pork here in the house (chicken only)

[hippywife]

21. SCORE!

:rofl:

Both meals sound pretty yummy! :)

[Inchworm]

13. Thats me too

Too bad I still can't get out to the store. Dang ice storm!

:)

:hi:

[Callalily]

17. Today I made Black Eyed Pea Soup.

And as a matter of fact am eating it as I type.

My modifications to recipe: added hot pepper flakes and Spanish hot smoke paprika to add to that smoky flavor seeing that the recipe did not call for hom hocks or bacon. And in case you are wondering, it is very good.



Black-Eyed Pea Soup
Ingredients
1 (16-ounce) package dried black-eyed peas
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 small green bell pepper, diced
1 celery stalk, diced
1 tablespoon olive oil
6 cups water
1 (32-ounce) can whole tomatoes, undrained and chopped
3 cups chicken broth
1 tablespoon chicken bouillon granules
2 jalapeño peppers, unseeded and chopped
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
Preparation
Bring peas and water to cover to a boil in a Dutch oven; cook 10 minutes. Remove from heat; cover and let stand 1 hour. Drain and remove from Dutch oven.
Sauté onion and next 3 ingredients in hot oil in Dutch oven until tender. Add peas, 6 cups water, and remaining ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, stirring occasionally, 1 hour or until peas are tender.
Yield
10 cups

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

19. That looks really good

My friend did a vegetarian soul food meal for New Years Day - Hoppin John, cornbread, collard greens with raisins and an African stew with tempeh and carrots. Everything was excellent. I'll have to get her recipes. For now I have some leftovers she gave me. I made a pumpkin raisin bundt cake - anything shaped like a ring is supposed to be good luck - and brought pumpkin eggnog

[kestrel91316]

20. I LOVE Hoppin' John. Raisins in my collards, not so much, lol.

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22. Raisins and OJ, she told me

It is very tasty. Not sweet at all.

[kestrel91316]

23. Nope. NOT gonna go there, lol.