primitives discuss dinners to make the New Year lucky

[franksolich]

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REACTIVATED IN CT  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 01:24 PM
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What are traditional New Years Day/good luck in the new year foods ?

franksolich usually tries to have turkey, mashed potatoes, corn and peas, gravy, and whole-wheat rolls on New Year's Day.  And on Easter.  And on Memorial Day.  And on the 4th of July (in a restaurant, of course).  And on Labor Day.  And on Thanksgiving Day.  And on Christmas.

It must work, because franksolich is the luckiest person he knows.

Phoebe Loosinhouse  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 01:28 PM
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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!

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 01:52 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
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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.

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Tesha  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-31-09 02:39 PM
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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...

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 04:15 PM
DOUG'S EX-WIFE
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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  (235 posts)      Thu Dec-31-09 04:37 PM
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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.

Turkey's better.

Tesha  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-31-09 05:03 PM
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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  (235 posts)      Thu Dec-31-09 05:14 PM
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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.

tigereye  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 05:08 PM
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8. my mom often made corned beef, cabbage and Irish Soda bread

FarPoint  (235 posts)      Thu Dec-31-09 05:18 PM
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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  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 05:20 PM
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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  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 09:44 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
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14. A few of us did it this year

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

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

Tesha  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-31-09 06:27 PM
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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!

Inchworm  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 07:12 PM
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13. Thats me too

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

I dunno.

You know, when growing up, I don't recall any special New Year's Day dinner.

[GOBUCKS]

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 04:15 PM
DOUG'S EX-WIFE
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We're a little Italianate tonight, lol, with late supper of eggplant parmesan for stragglers.

Can you be "Italianate", or have stragglers, in a camper?

[Oceander]

Anything that fills the empty spot and keeps starvation away is a "lucky" meal.

[delilahmused]

Can you be "Italianate", or have stragglers, in a camper?

Bobolink coming for dinner, maybe?

Cindie

[franksolich]

Can you be "Italianate", or have stragglers, in a camper?

It's a dig at me, because Doug's stupid ex-wife reads franksolich.

Once in a while I will repeatedly use a word in its slightly incorrect form, to "test" to see if any primitives pick it up, thus illuminating me that they do read franksolich.

Am I sneaky, or what?

[kenth]

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-31-09 04:15 PM
DOUG'S EX-WIFE
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5. Same here. A nice big ham bone from our Christmas ham

What, she didn't make it into a gift?

[Lord Undies]

I have black-eyed peas on simmer now.  I do so because of southern tradition, not some misguided concept of what brings me "luck".  I derive my luck from my faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.  I derive tradition from my earthly heritage.

[thundley4]

I have black-eyed peas on simmer now.  I do so because of southern tradition, not some misguided concept of what brings me "luck".  I derive my luck from my faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.  I derive tradition from my earthly heritage.

But that southern tradion is based on the belief that it brings luck. 

Looking for good fortune in 2010? Eat your black-eyed peas and you may be in luck. A Southern tradition dating back to the American Civil War, black-eyed peas are thought to bring prosperity to those who eat them on New Year's Day.

So what's the connection between peas and prosperity? "People looked at the black-eyed peas as change or coins," writes Frederick Opie, author of "Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America." He continues, "In the same way, they looked at greens, like collard greens, as dollars."{/quote] Me Lucky Charms.

[NHSparky]

Guess my pizza will have to do--homemade, of course.  Nobody delivers here and I really don't feel like driving out to get it.

[Lord Undies]

But that southern tradion is based on the belief that it brings luck. 

And I still support the tradition of welcoming Santa Claus once a year.

[JohnnyReb]

Well, wife is fix'n pork chops, blackeyed peas, greens, mac and cheese and cornbread......it's her/our southern tradition.....and she's running late with it. My idea of a good years dinner is similar to my dad's.....feed me something dammit, I'm hungary.....

[Lord Undies]

Well, wife is fix'n pork chops, blackeyed peas, greens, mac and cheese and cornbread......it's her/our southern tradition.....and she's running late with it. My idea of a good years dinner is similar to my dad's.....feed me something dammit, I'm hungary.....

After dinner you will be belarus and need an alka-seltzer. 

[Texacon]

Bobolink coming for dinner, maybe?

Cindie

Now that's just COLD!  Well, maybe its Bobbolink who is cold .... living in a car in Colorado.   

KC

[GOBUCKS]

Now that's just COLD!  Well, maybe its Bobbolink who is cold .... living in a car in Colorado.   

KC

We haven't heard much from DUmmy bobbolink lately. Maybe people finally started caring. She is homeless, you know.

[thundley4]

We haven't heard much from DUmmy bobbolink lately. Maybe people finally started caring. She is homeless, you know.

She might be frozen in a snow drift, somewhere.

[DefiantSix]

She might be frozen in a snow drift, somewhere.

It could just be that the Øbamaville she's holed up in for the winter is too far from the Lie-barry's wi-fi signal. 

[Chris_]

The greenbriar cooking show

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greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-30-09 02:56 PM
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do you do the "BLACK EYED PEAS" superstition on New Years Day?
 I don't really believe, but we do it anyway.


Friday's dinner

Black Eyed Peas
Baked Ham with brown sugar and pineapple
Mashed potatoes and Gravy


yummmmm
 

Wow, back from the brink of death.  She'll gain her weight back in no time.

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-30-09 04:24 PM
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7. I don't really know. I just know that for as long as I can remember
 we have had black eyed peas for New Years Day


It is supposed to bring you wealth.

The more you eat, the more you are supposed to get

Same old greedy gut greenbriar.

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-30-09 04:35 PM
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9. thank you. I make a good ham and everyone loves my mashed 
 potatoes.

I don't do instant and I put extras in the potatoes when I mash them up. Very good

Please.  You don't "make" ham.  You cook it.  And mashed potatoes are easy.

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-30-09 04:45 PM
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12. come on over 
 we have plenty of room
 

Don't be tricked.  She doesn't really mean come over.

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-30-09 06:32 PM
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25. daughter's beau has German in their family and they do saurkraut
 and beef.

I hadn't heard that before
 

Beau ?  Now she's a southern belle ?  GAG.

[greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-30-09 06:48 PM
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32. well, they are past the "boyfriend, girlfriend" thing but not quite engaged yet
 although if he had more money, I think he would have proposed to her at Christmas.

They are both in college and while she is living with us, he has an apartment and it pretty much takes most of his job money. The rest he spends on her...


He is a really good guy. Opens doors for her, helps her with her coat, pretty much thinks she walks on water...


I asked her if they ever fight...she said yea, but they were like me and her dad...she is like her dad and blows up and he is like me keeping things inside and trying to keep peace. LOL.


She also said that when he did things like the doors and coats, it wasn't just for show, that was how he always is. She said she felt blessed because none of her friends have ever had a guy treat them the way he treats her.

He is a real gentleman. That is all I could ever hope for.
 
/quote]

What a beautiful story.  I hope she doesn't accidentally get pregnant and have an abortion like you did then brag about it on the DUmp. 

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jan-01-10 02:22 PM
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77. thanks. I think so
 he even took out the trash when it got full last night. No one asked, he just did it.


He slept on the downstairs couch and when I got up this morning, he was folding blankets and straightening up.


Heck, I have family that doesn't even do that!!!
 

You're a real DUmmy if you think he slept on that couch.

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-30-09 08:05 PM
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39. Daughters Beau is from Ohio and he says that is what they do
 the pork and sauerkraut


I do the Corned Beef and Sauerkraut on Saint. Patrick's day


and Fried potatoes...I LOVE fried potatoes

Wait until beau finds out you're blabbing all his family history all over the internets.
Is nothing sacred to you ?

Oh, another fake invite

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-30-09 06:50 PM
Response to Reply #31

33. sure come on over
 the ham is big and the pot of beans will be huge!


I will have to buy more potatoes tho with you and Big Will added 

Big Will ?  greenbriar gettin' all cozy with bigwillq ?  I wish he'd show up and shock the sh*t out of her.

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jan-01-10 05:18 PM
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79. hubby likes buttermilk
 me not so much

Yeah, like you care.

Excuse how this posted.  It scrolled out of control. 

[GOBUCKS]

If Pam had Holli's talents, she could have nailed that cruise ship cabin boy.