New Years Day food.(Vanity)

My fecund brain | 12/27/07 | Me

[TexasMatty]

What do y'all do in other parts of our great nation?

[TexasMatty]

I am curious to know what y'all will be eating New Years Day. Here in Texas it's all about ham, greens, black eyes, red eye gravy, sweet taters, and Pecan pie. I put the ham on the pit at about 6am, get the greens going with some bacon and onion, cook the black eyes with garlic, bacon and onions, and I use my leftover coffee grounds for the gravy. What do y'all do in other parts of our great nation?

[1rudeboy]

Chicago. Beer.

[NittanyLion]

Pork, sauerkraut and mashed potatos here in PA.

[TexasMatty]

Yum!

[cripplecreek]

My family doesn’t really do anything special for new years day. Maybe I’ll go ice fishing.

[NittanyLion]

Your ham sounds pretty good too...

[TexasMatty]

Beer, Kiełbasa, and Pasties.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Alka Seltzer.

[TexasMatty]

The Ham isn’t the star. I.M.H.O. it’s all about the greens and black eyes. You can cook damn near anything in bacon/baconfat and it is godly!

[1rudeboy]

Beer. Football. Women (to do the work).

[TexasMatty]

I quit drinking, so the usual Alka Seltzer, 3 excedrin, prilosec cocktail is no longer needed.LOL!

[Sybeck1]

In Mississippi, its collard and turnip greens, as poke salad is out of season for money in the next year, my grandma tells me. Some hamhocks, and maybe some deer meat. And some black eyed peas and pinto beans and cornbread.

And also, we don’t wash clothes on the 1st. Old tale around here you are washing for the dead, or that person will die that year.

[duckman]

Pasties?????

[SF Republican]

Crab and champagne.

[TexasMatty]

I usually go with collards but I also like mustard greens. I forgot the skillet cornbread, though in Texas we add cheese and chilis.(damn Tex-Mex ya know!lol!)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Black eyed peas for good luck, Cabbage for financial success.... football, beer and hopefully someone to clean up the kitchen!

[poobear]

Black-eyed peas with smoked hocks, short ribs slow cooked in pintos and jalapeno peppers, collard greens, white rice, corn bread and beer. Oh yes, and lots of football!

[Xenalyte]

Don’t forget the beer! That helps the black-eyed peas go down. :)

[FredHead47]

coffee grounds in the gravy?

[TexasMatty]

http://www.exploringthenorth.com/foods/north.html

Though they are also enjoyed throughout the Mid-West. I ate them in Rockfalls, Ill as a kid. My Grandmother made em and Boy were they good.