Traditional New Year's Day foods?
I don't know of anything traditional in the Midwest. And Swedes don't have any good food ever! (Despite what my mother says about lutefisk and potato sausage). |
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I'm a midwestern german, so no lutefisk for me! 
However, we often do eat fish - because Todd and other male family members go ice fishing and if they are successful we have a big fishfry.  |
| In the south you eat black eyed peas - I think you are supposed to eat one for each day of the year. Alot of hispanics eat Tamales - but tamales are eaten on any holiday. Funny comment about the swedes. My dh is of swedish origins and I am not impressed with the food, except Gravlax, which his family doesn't eat.
I am making paella for New Year's Day. I rec'd a Paella pan as a gift and I am going to try it out along with a tapa or two. |
| We eat shrimp but pork and saurkraut is the tradition (for good luck) but then we do live in the heart of amish country. |
| What is Paella? Sorry never heard of it I think. |
| My mother-in-law always eats black-eyed peas and cornbread (yep, from the south). She always forgets to buy them and has to run around town looking high and low, because they always sell out. She says you get a penny for each one you eat. I don't like them, yuck..... my son and husband do, but I'm not fixing them this year, hubby's not home, and son wouldn't eat that many. I did tell MIL that from now on she is getting black-eyed peas for Christmas in her stocking |
| Leftover chinese food from new years eve LOL |
| Paella is a Spanish rice dish. Traditionally made with veggies or one type of meat; however, per the cookbook, if one were to go to Spain you'd likely get one that contains multiple meats and seafood to appeal to a broader populace. |
| Pork & sauerkraut here in the midwest. Sometimes Pigs in the Blanket in sauerkraut. Last Sat. my son, husband & I made 350 sauerkraut balls! We'll have some of those on New Year's Eve.! |
| We have a group of four families that have had a New Year's Day brunch tradition for many, many years now. The brunch is almost always followed by standing in the parking lot trying to figure out what we are going to do with the rest of the day.
Last year the restaurant was right next to a large bowling center complex, so the decision was easy! This year, we're going tot he same restaurant, but I plan on throwing in a different bowling center as a complication to the discussion. 
Tradition! |
| My mom sometimes made black eyed peas and spinach. The spinach represented green = money, and the peas represented good luck, or something like that. It's funny, though, because she's from So Cal, and so am I, and none of her family is from the south! So I don't know where it came from! |
| There's a seaweed soup and then a mondu/rice cake soup that koreans eat that give them an additional year of life for every year they eat it.
thankfully we're eating at my house. it'll be homemade pizza.  |
| traditionally it is herring at midnight and kielbasa and saurkraut New Year's day.
Our own tradition is a standing rib roast on new year's. this year I sent hubby to the butcher and we will be eating rib roast well into the new year |
| hmmmm, paella! Brings back memories of university in Spain. Saffron flavored rice and a yummy selection of meats, seafood, meats depending on region.
Down here we have posole. Hominy corn cooked with pork and red chile. Served with tamales. Of course the hangover cure is tripe stew called menudo. However I'll pass on all three. |
| We really don't have any traditional foods, but I'm planning to make a pot roast tomorrow with dried beans, carrots, potatoes and onions. I cook it low and slow, and the house smells wonderful! Tonight we are going out, and I may splurge on lobstah! |
debcram wrote: Tonight we are going out, and I may splurge on lobstah! 2 ounces = 1 point. I looked it up last night in case I decided to take advantage of the Jewel special--5 oz tail for $5.99 Butter, of course, is a ton of points. |
Paula O. wrote: debcram wrote: Tonight we are going out, and I may splurge on lobstah! 2 ounces = 1 point. I looked it up last night in case I decided to take advantage of the Jewel special--5 oz tail for $5.99 Butter, of course, is a ton of points. Butter 1 tsp = 1 point enjoy!!!!! I'm gonna! Are you opening the Jim Beam tonight? |
| This is an interesting and enlightening thread.
Here in the south we eat black eyed peas, cornbread, cabbage and pork on NYD. Our own tradition is hog jowls but a lot of people eat pork chops or ribs. It's supposed to make you healthy, wealthy and wise in the new year. I've eaten it every NYD of my life. |
| We're doing pork tenderloin, saurkraut and mashed potatoes with sour cream & chives. |
| My report back - no fish, not from Todd anyway. He stayed out too late playing poker and napped - all day long!
He did however make a turkey yesterday. He made it in the crockpot. We never have tried that, but will definitely do it again. Very moist and fall-off-the-bone tender. So, turkey for New Year's as well as Thanksgiving here. No stuffing though, but I guess I ate enough other stuff at the party last night. Plain turkey will do me good! |
| Seafood for us, I think because we like it. I'm talking crab legs, shrimp, scallops. Ethnically smoked oysters for New Years Eve, but not for us. Yuck |
| I ended up having leftover chicken, which I cut up and put in a salad. Ooh, exciting way to end the new year! |
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