Anyone Else eat pork and cabbage on New Years Day

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Actually the reason we on the bayou eat smothered cabbage and black eyes over rice for New Years is because after spending all our money over Christmas, we be's too poor to afford anything else. And the "pork" is just seasoning salt meat for the beans and cabbage.
Noooooooooobody knows the trouble I've seen................;)
 
Quite honestly, I have never heard of that tradition. Usually if we have a NYE party, there are PLENTY of leftover's for dinner. Sometimes we even invite a select few from our usual NYE party back again to finish them. Sometimes we go to one of their homes and bring the food with us.

PORK & CABBAGE is a new one on NYD for me.......
 
Hog Jowl / Black Eyed Peas / Cabbage / Collared Greens

Traditional Menu Explanations

Hog Jowl
On New Year’s Day, hog jowls are traditionally eaten in the south to ensure health, prosperity and progress.

Black Eyed Peas
Typically, the belief that black-eyed peas are a lucky New Year’s meal is especially popular in the south,

Cabbage / Collared Greens
Cabbage and collard greens both represent “green” money in New Year’s tradition

Bekeart and SWMBO will have:

#1) Hog Jowl and Black Eyed Peas seasoned with onion.
May use some Green Onions - Another chance at Money

#2) Fresh Pork (Ribs or Chops) simmered with kraut
Thinking about adding a Green apple ...

#3) Start Another Good Year Together!

Bekeart
 
Yeah what’s with the cabbage and pork on New Year’s Eve/day?
 
A big old baking dish wiped with bacon grease and filled with sauerkraut, sliced onions, green apples, garlic, and a dash of molasses plus lots of black pepper. Cover it with smoked sausage, pork steaks, and pork ribs. It takes a really big glass baking dish or a large roasting pan. A cup or two of white wine and some whole cloves Frenches it up a bit
 
In our case, it is usually pork sausage, cole slaw, and blackeye peas cooked with a new penny (to bring prosperity in the coming year). Have always done that. Sometimes, the sausage is replaced by ham. As long as it is something pork. Wife does not like pork chops so we never have them.
 
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German tradition...

Yeah what’s with the cabbage and pork on New Year’s Eve/day?


It is a German tradition...when I was a youngster my Mother who was part German told us you eat this for good luck in the New Year...WELL...sometimes it works and sometimes it does not...Oh well anyway it taste great on New Years day...Roger
 
Pork and Sauerkraut with dumplings every New Years day.
We just got back from the farmers market with treats for New Years eve. 4 dozen Chesapeake Bay oysters, 4 pounds of large shrimp, a pound and a half of sea scallops. Gotta get some bacon to wrap the scallops and we should be good to go.

John
 
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