Do you have a New Year's Day food tradition?

Greens (collard or turnip), ham, black-eyed peas, cornbread.

Greens for financial well-being, ham for moving forward in the new year (because hogs root forward), black-eyed peas for luck, cornbread for gold.

Dessert? Not here. We don't need anything more than we already have leftover from Christmas!
 
In the south it’s traditional to have black eyed peas as a New Years Day food. It’s considered good luck.

So I make something called Hoppin John, which is basically a soup prepared with black eyed peas and ham, lots of spices and a few veggies, ladled over cooked rice, with a tower of cornbread on the side. The family loves it and it’s a good way to make use of leftover ham and that big meaty hambone!!
 
Pecos said:
Black eyed peas and collard greens.
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This just brought a smile because a memory came back to me. A guy I used to work with ate a black eyed pea on New Year's Day for each day of the year. One year he had extremely horrid luck for months and some crass soul at work said hey, where's his good luck... he ate all those black eyed peas! And he looked right at the person and said "I only ate 365. I forgot it's a leap year." 🤭
 
Turkey sausage & sauerkraut... bake the sauerkraut for a couple hours in the oven with a bit of sweetener and extra caraway seeds sprinkled over. Then add the sausage and bake for another hour. That removes the bitter flavor from the sauerkraut. Serve it with mashed potatoes.
 
New Year's Day is when Japanese celebrate. Family tradition was to get together to have Japanese food,
but, the elders are either gone or in the Senior's home now. With Covid in the picture, we haven't gotten
together in quite awhile :confused:

Mom used to make a sweet thick adzuki (red bean) soup with mochi for New Year's morning, which I
really miss.
 
Liberty said:
Turkey sausage & sauerkraut... bake the sauerkraut for a couple hours in the oven with a bit of sweetener and extra caraway seeds sprinkled over. Then add the sausage and bake for another hour. That removes the bitter flavor from the sauerkraut. Serve it with mashed potatoes.
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Have you ever rinsed your kraut with warm water to get the brine off? I do that before I use it in any recipe. Then I'll use a riesling type wine for moisture, caraway & cubed pork for flavor if I'm doing the kraut as a stand alone side dish.
 
Lewkat said:
I never heard of any traditional New Year's dinner.

We had pickled herring on New Year's eve.
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Pork & kraut is a German thing. Pork because pigs root moving forward & you are moving forward into the New Year. Cabbage is supposed to represent money & since kraut is from cabbage it's believed to bring prosperity.

I didn't know about black eyed peas until I worked with a guy whose wife was from the south & he told me about it. At his house they had both the German & southern traditional food.
 
We too will be having the traditional Southern New Year Day‘s meal : ham, black eyed peas, collards, chow chow, corn bread, rolls, & sweet potatoes . Possibly Mac & cheese, undecided on that yet. Dessert probably peach cobbler. Homemade cookies, fudge, etc.
I know it sounds like a lot of food but there will be 8 ( maybe 10) of us and everyone will take home leftovers
 
CallMeKate said:
I'll be making our traditional pork & sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, corn, and probably dinner rolls. Cake for dessert. I'm going to have to ignore the carb-counting that day or I'll terrify myself. :eek:
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Quite similar to what we'll be having, too.
 
In the parts of Scotland that I am familiar with we cook
and eat, minced/ground beef, mashed potato and some
mashed turnip, (optional), on New Year Eve, at 9PM all
because we will be going out "First Footing", so the food
is for soaking up the Booze.

Mike.
 
When I was growing up, New Year's was spent at my grandmother's house.

Italians traditionally have a seafood dish as a first course, so you may find spaghetti and clams or a seafood risotto. Or instead, it could be tortellini in brodo (stuffed pasta cooked in chicken broth) or stuffed pasta such as cappelletti. The second course is cotechino, a large, delicately spiced pork sausage with lentils, for good luck. The second course might also include salted codfish or octopus, roasted meat, or other types of sausage. It's traditionally served on New Year's Eve at midnight. At the end of the meal, there are nuts, dried fruit, pomegranate, and grapes, also for good luck. For dessert, there are cakes such as Pandoro, Panettone, and biscotti dipped in Vin Santo, along with espresso and Sambuca. I have very fond memories of those glorious meals. These days, I don't do all that.

It's also traditional to wear red underwear. 😊

My husband was German and liked to have sauerkraut, pork roast, and mashed potatoes on New Year's Day. I was always happy to make it for him. Now, I've returned to my roots and enjoy cotechino with lentils.

Bella✌️
 
Until a few years ago the New Years' parade was held a few blocks away from my house.I got a ton of people stopping over at my house. So I always had trays of food and roast beef sandwiches. It was also my SIL's Birthday so I had a birthday cake for her.
 
charry said:
nothing special this year
just finger buffet , christmas and new year
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Same here, for the bells we have the addition of prawns with homemade cocktail sauce besides finger sandwiches.

What I miss is the long breads cut horizontally which you could roll up and make pinwheel sandwiches.
 
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