O.T. New Year traditional meals of yours?

[Steelerone]

As a colleague of mine once said at Commander's Palace in New Orleans, "You can never have too many shrimp."

What a great quote. RIght out of "Forest Gump". Have a great New Years Milford Husky and, more importantly, a safe New Years Eve.

 

[Waquoit]

This year it's Indian take-out!

 

[triaddukefan]

Now yall got me wanting some chittlins...... the Boneyard strikes again

 

[Charliebball]

We've pretty much gotten tired of the New Years parties around here so for the past few years our evening has consisted of dinner at Cheesecake Factory (my guilty gastronomic pleasure), a movie and home by 10 pm..........nothing better then watching hundreds of thousands of freezing, drunken tourists in Times Square from under the covers.............

 

[Bigboote]

We don’t have any traditional meals. This evening I made pho from scratch for the first time. The broth was from the Christmas turkey, flavored with star anise, coriander, cloves, etc. It was mighty good.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Now yall got me wanting some chittlins...... the Boneyard strikes again

Don't do it! Doughnuts.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Love the exotics, but I come from simple folk. Ham. Almost always ham.

Oddly - we have company and my wife has a cold (always a concern when you are immuno-surpressed) - so instead of our usual New Years Eve (dinner at PF Changs) - we had our New Years Ham. What we are having tomorrow - don't know.

 

[Bigboote]

Love the exotics, but I come from simple folk. Ham. Almost always ham.

Oddly - we have company and my wife has a cold (always a concern when you are immuno-surpressed) - so instead of our usual New Years Eve (dinner at PF Changs) - we had our New Years Ham. What we are having tomorrow - don't know.

How about ham croquettes? We always had them after a ham when I was a kid.

Unfortunately, neither my wife nor kid likes ham much. Kid doesn’t even like cheese potatoes or homemade mac and cheese, which is what I pair with ham.

 

[triaddukefan]

@CocoHusky and any others........ if you want some Chitlins for New Years 2021... here is a place to consider. One of the top BBQ restaurants in NC offers them, and they ship.

King’s Cleaned & Cooked Chitlins

 

[msf22b]

My (Chinese) wife suggested and executed a new tradition to which I hardily approve:
Mariscada with Egg Sauce....served with Yellow Rice and a simple salad.
Clams, mussels, shrimp (lots), squid and Scallops

It's reputed to be Castilian but there is no recipe on the web for a garlicky white sauce with egg, nor mention of it in standard cookbooks from Spain

It's served in a small group of Greenwich Village restaurants, the most famed El Faro, having gone out of business some years ago. A version I have enjoyed for decades is cooked nightly in Sevilla on Charles St.

It's possibly an invention for foreigners (Americans) that locals have never eaten (but it's delicious).
Examples abound: Chop Suey, Egg Foo Young and Moo Moo Gai Pan are unknown in China and Italians would never put meat balls in spaghetti or sprinkle parmesan on clam sauce (perhaps some barbarians do according to Inspector Montalbano).

My wife reverse engineered the sauce to perfection and improved the dish by cooking each of the seafoods separately (a hint from Bobby Flay).

Highly recommended (very)
The only problem is: there is no reason to go back to our Charles Street abode.

 

[Huskygamble19]

New Years meals usually consisted of Honey Glazed or just plain ham, Hominy,black eyed peas,collared greens and au gratin potatos. Once we had a break with Chicken Fried Steak. For dessert was usually good old apple pie and ice cream.

 

[willtalk]

Great post Winlots. In Pittsburgh if you went to the market two days before New Years Eve the Kielbasa was long gone. My Grandmother made our sauerkraut and during the rest of my entire life I regret eating it because it spoiled any other I've tried. Hope you and yours have a great New Years and enjoy the Huskies for the rest of the season.

As Winlots stated the New Years meal ( especially sauerkraut ) is supposed to bring luck throughout the year. Fortunately, I paid attention when my mother made her sauerkraut so I can make it myself. The kraut they make in the states is too sour and no one in my family would ever eat it. We would cook the pork in the Krout. My mother would also make doughnuts and Piroshki's ( they were my favorites ). Of course that required a special dough which she would throw together without measurements which I ( and no one else in our family) could not ever attempt to duplicate.

I will say that I like my version better than the one she made, probably because I adjust it to my taste. There are different types of kraut. One of which is sweet. I sort of combine the two to create a type of sweet and sauer kraut. It is very simple to make.