Anyone Else eat pork and cabbage on New Years Day

[mike4sigs]

when i was young and still lived with my parents it was Sauer Kraut and Pork rib or Pork Roast. Cooked together i still enjoy that meal on occasion.
This year for New years pork and cabbage meal it will be pork egg roll cup made with Sausage, Cabbage and Ramen noodles.

 

[TJm15.38]

For us it's always a pork loin or roast, cabbage, black eyed peas with tomato and pepper relish; it's Southern tradition on New Years Day.

 

[BAM-BAM]

70 years and counting

Pork tenderloin
"Polish style" Kraut [caraway seeds]
Mounds of mashed potatoes

IIRC Kraut is a good source of vitamin C ; the tradition is to bring good luck; that you don't get scurvy before spring!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

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................

 

[pharman]

Baby backs and kraut...

Baby back ribs and sauer kraut...cook in crock pot for about 4 hours...serve over mashed potatoes...DELICIOUS!

 

[Imissedagain]

We'll have to hide Piggy.
Fire up the Model T.

 

[UncleEd]

Over the Christmas weekend, had Polish
sausage, mashed potatoes and sauer
kraut laced with horseradish. Also
pork tenderloin with the taters
and sauer kraut.

 

[Muley Gil]

Black eyed peas, collard greens-or turnip or mustard greens, and cornbread. Big old hunk of hog in the peas and greens of course.

 

[chief38]

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.......

 

[Bekeart]

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

 

[Bald1]

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

 

[Heinz]

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

 

[DWalt]

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.

 

[djohns6]

Cabbage and Blak Eyed Peas for as long as I can remember . Pork or sausage because you gotta season the cabbage with something .

 

[cndrdk]

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

So you can start the New Year with a bang!!

 

[pharman]

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

 

[Nevada Ed]

We enjoy SK with pork for meals,
be it chops, sausage, roast or what ever.

Don't knock it until you have tried it.

Some even like the "Red" SK as a little different, spin.

 

[CH4]

No, I eat donuts on New Year's Day while watching the parade. Childhood tradition. I only eat cabbage if I need to keep the mosquitoes away.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

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

 

[Rule3]

Black eyed peas, collard greens-or turnip or mustard greens, and cornbread. Big old hunk of hog in the peas and greens of course.

Yep, what we have Not my wife's favorite but she will eat it, We also have rice with the peas

Collards are good if cooked correctly

 

[grover99]

When I was a young lad growing up in Texas every new years eve we would bury a dime then dig it up the next day for prosperity in the coming year. Then eat back eyed peas for lunch. My Uncle grew black eyed peas so we had the peas my Aunt canned that summer. Good eating!

 

[Rustyt1953]

The German heritage runs deep throughout Ohio. Pork ribs and kraut were/are a common occurrence in these parts not just for New Year's Day but year round. Good stuff.

Distinct bouquet, fer shore.

 

[Narragansett]

I do. I picked up the tradition during my 13 years in Lancaster, PA.

I need to get some kraut

 

[LVSteve]

Pork is fine. Cabbage is for rabbits. Cooking it makes it worse.

 

[mike4sigs]

I do. I picked up the tradition during my 13 years in Lancaster, PA.

I need to get some kraut

better get with it the Local Mom and Pop grocery did not have any Sauer Kraut on the shelf

 

[Rustyt1953]

Like Lewis Carroll, I, too, like cabbage.

 

[kraynky]

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

That's the exact new years day meal I've had every New Years Day for as far back as I can remember. With the addition of some good ole cornbread to wash it all down.

Look'n forward to it already!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Speaking of cornbread, my dad and Ruthie's dad both loved to crumble cornbread in a glass of buttermilk and have it for dessert. They loved it.

I have tried many times to like it but have given up. Our palates are all wired differently.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Will be having Ham and Beans.
Cornbread and Buttermilk?
Haven't had any for a mighty long time.
Same for peanuts in a RC Cola.
And I love all Beans and Peas.
Favorite Pea is the Purple Hull.
I can sometime get them canned or frozen.

 

[zeke]

Have never tried pork and cabbage, so ain't gonna knock it. When you're named after your great grandfather who was raised by the River Brethren in Lancaster County, you eat what i call Pa Dutch style pork and kraut.