2025 New Year's Menu & Traditions

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Is this the dinner thread for today? I had planned to make oyster stew since that is the tradition, but the store I normally shop at was out of fresh oysters and I was too tired after work yesterday to drive 20 miles to the store I know has them.

So change of plans, I made bang bang salmon with baby broccoli and a sweet potato. Not traditional but pretty tasty. Sorry, I didn't take a photo.
I don't know. I treated it like it was the dinner thread for New Year's Eve.
 
We always have Hoppin' John on New Year's Day...this is my usual go-to recipe. Quick and easy.

HOPPIN’ JOHN
2 15-ounce cans black-eyed peas
3 cups water
1 large onion, sliced
2 stalks celery, sliced (1 cup)
2 slices bacon, diced
1 teaspoon instant chicken bouillon granules
½ teaspoon garlic salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
¼ teaspoon bottled hot pepper sauce
½ cup long grain rice

In a large saucepan stir together the undrained black-eyed peas, the water, sliced onion, sliced celery, diced bacon, chicken bouillon granules, garlic salt, pepper and bottled hot pepper sauce. Bring mixture to boiling. Stir in the uncooked rice. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes or till the rice is done. Makes 4 servings.

Yesterday, I made Albondigas, as DH has been craving it. Yummy stuff! And there's more for today or the freezer...

That Hoppin John recipe sounds good, I'm going to try it, I'll have to find the black-eyed peas first, not commonly used here, but I'm sure I'll find them in a well-furnished supermarket 😃.
 
We had our black-eyed peas and collards last night for supper, with a couple of cheats. The peas and hog jowl were already cooked, all we needed to do was put them in the microwave. Collards came out of a can, they had some red pepper in them so I sprinkled some Splenda on mine and that tamed some of the heat. Cooked a can of biscuits to go with them, easier than cornbread.
 
Yeah, the black eyed peas I bought were in the canned veggie section, not with the beans.

CD
When I was a kid, I had black eyed peas as a veg. They aren't really a Scandinavian thing. I was curious and wanted to try them, so my mum bought a can. I liked them. No one else in the family did. So, she would buy them just for me.
 
We always have Hoppin' John on New Year's Day...this is my usual go-to recipe. Quick and easy.

HOPPIN’ JOHN
2 15-ounce cans black-eyed peas
3 cups water
1 large onion, sliced
2 stalks celery, sliced (1 cup)
2 slices bacon, diced
1 teaspoon instant chicken bouillon granules
½ teaspoon garlic salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
¼ teaspoon bottled hot pepper sauce
½ cup long grain rice

In a large saucepan stir together the undrained black-eyed peas, the water, sliced onion, sliced celery, diced bacon, chicken bouillon granules, garlic salt, pepper and bottled hot pepper sauce. Bring mixture to boiling. Stir in the uncooked rice. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes or till the rice is done. Makes 4 servings.

Yesterday, I made Albondigas, as DH has been craving it. Yummy stuff! And there's more for today or the freezer...

That Hoppin John recipe sounds good, I'm going to try it, I'll have to find the black-eyed peas first, not commonly used here, but I'm sure I'll find them in a wel-furnished supermarket 😃.
Here, one has to look in the Bean section and the Veggie section too. I think "Peas" confuses some of them.

Yes, in fact, we call them black-eyed beans. I looked in all the sections in two very big stores and only one of them had these beans, but in a very big jar, which I thought would be too much. If I don't find smaller jars/cans anywhere else, I'll buy the big one and then freeze some of the soup😀.
 
Like most beans you can also purchase them dry.
Perhaps they go by another name near you, such as "goat pea" or "southern pea"?
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Our New Years Tradition is going out for Chinese food. But here, all the restaurants (and stores) are closed on New Years Day. Well, except for A&W, so we had burgers, fries, onion rings, and root beer!
 

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