New year tradition ?

[bama20a]

Was talking around here,About the New Year tradition.About eating Black eye peas& hog jowl,& collards on year day, Something about good heath & money :D
Does anyone know?  :new_year:,Mark,,,,,,

[clww]

Sure thing! We've done it in our family since before I was on the scene. :new_year:

[doctorb]

My favorite New Year's tradition is to gather at the home of one of the 6-7 friends / couples that see each other often during the year.  When you arrive with your dinner dish to add to the supper, it's about 7 pm.  However, by tradition, the clocks are set forward 2 hours so that they read 9 PM.  You have a cocktail hour, eat dinner, and enjoy the company until midnight (really 10PM).  Everybody does the usual stuff at midnight, and most couples are gone within the hour.  We get home early and are in bed with our wives / significant others by midnight, which is the very best place to celebrate New Year's Eve, IMO.  Most people think it's crazy, but it's fun, it's easy, you are not out driving after midnight, you're probably gonna get lucky, and you get a decent night's sleep to boot.  What's not to like? :D :D

[chain]

Always...

black eye peas
cheese grits casserole
fried smoked hog jowl
slaw
griddle cornmeal cakes
spun honey

football games

:new_year:

[red oaks lumber]

i like the way you think doctorb :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Always...

black eye peas
cheese grits casserole
fried smoked hog jowl
slaw
griddle cornmeal cakes
spun honey

football games

:new_year:

We are starting a new tradition this year......my family and friends are going to CHAIN's house.  :D

[Autocar]

Doctorb has the right idea, thumbs up  :new_year:

[samandothers]

x 3 on Doctorb!   I like it.

My mother always prepared hog jowl, black eyed peas, and greens.  My wife always mentions it and we think about it and usually have the jowl or some pork and greens.  She does NOT like black eyed peas so that is out.

[drobertson]

Our tradition, since married with kids have been the usual black eyed peas, greens and pork. However, since the kids are about gone and as far as the big dinner goes they are gone.(most of the time)  Doc has the answer! an outstanding tradition we will try to employ,  I kinda like the idea of just me and Christy at new years! :new_year:

[mrcaptainbob]

The black eye peas are for good luck. Wife also throws in beets, hominy and corn bread. YUMMY STUFF! No football here, though.

[doctorb]

Obviously, the only way to improve my New Year's tradition is to take these black eyed peas, hog jowls, greens, pork concoctions to the party!

[Norm]

That's a great idea Bobby, thanks for the idea!

[bama20a]

went yesterday, & cut some collards out of the field. Last night got some Blackeye peas & Hog jowl from the store.
  Got a nice iron skillet out to make Corn Bread,
Let the COOKING begin.  digin_2 
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Everyone & God be with each & everyone of you,Mark,,,,

[Texas Ranger]

In my miss spent youth it was trying to sober up day, that is long behind me.  Now a day of reflection and family, if they call.  No special food, wife is a yankee and blackeye peas, fat back and greens, is NOT on the menu.  Have a good friend that makes blackeye peas so good makes ya wanna smack your momma, looking forward to a visit.  Peas, a touch of pork and corn bread, and I have myself a day.

[LeeB]

Lindy doesn't eat black eyes either, or at least not like most of us. She does however make a concoction called Texas Caviar consisting of canned jalapeno blackeyes, onion, bell pepper, avocato, cilantro, and italian dressing. Eat it with Frito scoops. Sounds weird but it's really good stuff. I may make a pot anyway and I have some poke salad frozen from last spring.

[Roger2561]

Well my SIL felt we as a family need to do something different this year.  Mind you, most of my siblings and I are in our fifties or darned near it.  She wants to start a new tradition by holding a sledding party! (Me thinks she fell on her head sometime ago and didn't tell anyone) I haven't been sledding since I was in my early teens!  I don't know if my back would be able to hold up due to degenerative disc disease!  If you don't see me on this forum for a bit, it's either I'll be layed up in a hospital somewhere trying to get my back, back together or my back has compacted leaving me 3 feet tall.  Wish me luck!  Roger   

[beenthere]

Wish me luck! 

I only wish you good sense before you do something you regret.  ;D

[Den Socling]

Sledding? When I was a kid, my dad decided to buy a toboggan. "You can't get hurt. You're sitting on the ground." Well he went with my mother and another couple and pulled it up a hillside. His friend that he worked with was sitting on the back end. They came down the hill and flew over the hump made by a fence row that was now open. His friend was bucked high into the air and came down on his back. Lost a week of work. That was the last time they used the toboggan. So watch out for your new family tradition, Roger.

[Roger2561]

Wish me luck! 

I only wish you good sense before you do something you regret.  ;D

beenthere - The sledding field is at the local High School which sets on side of a hill.  At the bottom of the hill is the soccer/football field.  Thankfully no obstacles in the way.  Before going down the hill I'll see what the conditions are first.  If it's too fast or rough, no way heck in am I going down.  Oh, Happy New Year! 

[Roger2561]

Well, other than having my older brother put his feet on my shoulders and pull upward on my head so I could see where I was driving, I have no incidents to report   Honestly, I did not attempt the sledding down that steep hill.  Some kids arrived before we did and they built a bunch of jumps.  A couple of my brothers jumped them as did a bunch of kids but I sat back and watched the mayhem from the top of the hill.  There was no way I was going to injury myself, even when my 8 year nephew called me chicken.  I prefer to call it caution.  Have a good week everyone.  Roger

[BBTom]

Being of Switzer-Dutsch decent makes my New Year's Dinner just a little different.  It is pork ribs and kraut for me on the first.  Hope you all enjoyed your jowls, I certainly did enjoy my ribs. Happy, Healthy and Wealthy New Year is wished for each and every one of you.

[gspren]

  My area of PA is also a pork and saurkraut tradition spot. if you eat saurkraut on Jan 1st you'll have money all year. I always eat the kraut and I aint broke!

[Den Socling]

Yep a pork roast in a slow cooker with sauerkraut and hot dogs makes January 1 my favorite day of the year.