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Originally posted by konata88:
Not sure about luck but we usually eat ozoni, mochi, soba and duk (tteok).

We have ozoni with mochi, but missed out on the soba, this year.

My wife's is delicious.

Oh, by the way, she did finally admit that her karaage recipe is not exactly standard.

There's a fried chicken boom going on here in Japan, just so y'all know...

Seems you and I should have a long talk, someday, sir.



Happy New Year, all youse folks!

Im in the pork and saurkraut camp.PORK IN THE KRAUT.

Here in Louisiana we are having

Black Eye Peas
Homemade Cornbread
Cabbage
Pork

This has been our New Years dinner since I can remember.

First meal of the New Year, based on this feast, I'd say I'm in for a good year.

Hoppin' John
https://www.southernliving.com...c-hoppin-john-recipe

Baby backs and black eye peas

Collard greeens and black eye peas

Had some ribeye's last night to ring in the New Year

My Dad's side of the family (Texans) always eat black eyed peas.

Personally, I don't really like black eyed peas, unless they're an ingredient in something like posole.

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by SSgt USMC/Vet:
Black eyed peas.

That is what my mom always touted. I do have a can of them in my cupboard, but they've been there for years. Not sure they'd be any good. Maybe look for a restaurant offering them tomorrow. I'm not fond of them, but with enough Cayenne pepper they're OK.

flashguy

Make cowboy caviar and eat with tortilla chips

Pork and kraut. Our's has been cooking in the crockpot since early this morning.

I make black eyed peas from dried peas and the left over ham from the Christmas meal. Serve with cornbread. It’s a southern tradition that dates to the civil war and Sherman’s March through the south. The folklore is:

Most Southerners will tell you that this culinary custom dates back to the Civil War. Black-eyed peas were considered animal food. The peas were not deemed worthy of serving to General Sherman's Union troops. When Union soldiers raided the Confederates' food supplies, legend says they took everything except the peas and salted pork. The Confederates considered themselves lucky to be left with those meager supplies, and survived the winter. Peas then became symbolic of luck.

Prior to meeting and then marrying my wife 33 years ago, I never had any special New Year’s Day foods. However, Mrs. SigFan is an Okie, and her family had lots of traditional foods for the various holidays, and she got me eating black eyed peas on NYD. I had never even tasted black eyed peas prior to her introducing me to them 33 years ago; I prefer them with jalapeños but I’ll eat them plain as well.

When the girls were younger and my wife’s parents were still alive, we would often travel to OK from AZ during the holidays, and one year we were driving home on NYD and got our black eyed peas at Cracker Barrel in Amarillo, which was our usual stop anyway. So the next year we planned on the same thing, but we left OK later. So by the time we got to Amarillo, Cracker Barrel had run out of black eyed peas! (Apparently lots of people had the same idea...) We went ahead and ate dinner anyway.

Mrs. SigFan isn’t superstitious, but she wants her black eyed peas on NYD, dang it! So we drove around looking for restaurants likely to serve black eyed peas, and decided to try Texas Road House. By now it is getting late and since we didn’t want to eat again, I just went in and asked the hostess if I could just order a side of black eyed peas and explained the situation. She ended up just giving me an order for no charge. Now that’s Texas hospitality! Needless to say, Mrs. SigFan was happy that we all got our black eyed peas.

Happy New Year, y’all!

Every year, bean soup made with Great Northern Beans and bone-in ham:

Scallops wrapped in bacon and calamari.

I go for everything said to bring good luck for the new year. (within reason)

Grapes
Black Eyed Peas
Cabbage in the form of Brussels sprouts
Herring
Corn bread
Some sort of pork

Dry aged locally raised beef tenderloin and Alaska King crab legs, served with good vino. Thats been y go-to for New Years eve for years. Local Costco has huge crab legs this time every year.

Football watching kind of day and as CEO of my own leisure group, I choose pizza ... !!! ROLL TIDE !!!

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Pork loin, mashed taters buried in kraut.

I stopped and asked a pig. He said: "Mostly corn".

I won't be eating corn for good luck...

Pickled herring on New Years Eve, and black eyed peas on New Years Day.