Anyone Else eat pork and cabbage on New Years Day

[Golddollar]

Pork and Sauerkraut with dumplings every New Years day.

John

My aunt who lives here in town used to make this too. Unfortunately she is very disabled and unable to cook anymore. So I'll go to the Fire Company south of Gettysburg that is having a pork and sauerkraut lunch on New Year's Day.

But there is one more thing to remember. My late father used to say, "Don't eat chicken on New Year's or you'll be scratching for a living all year."

 

[rwsmith]

Hoppin' Johns here....

...except I can't eat black eyed peas, so a substitute bean will have to do. I like field peas and rice.

 

[riverrat38]

Last week saw a thread on "Lighting the fuse", and now it looks like folks is reloading!

73,
Rick

 

[BigBoy99]

I made ham, red cabbage and German style potato salad for Christmas day.

 

[twodog max]

Pork roast, black eye peas, and a green of some sort but it won't be collards. I cannot take those things. Maybe some real cornbread no sugar.

 

[pharman]

NO succotash for me!

Mom served her ribs and kraut with mashed potatoes, succotash and cornbread.

Randy...that all sounds great except for the succotash...my Aunt Mary made me eat it when I was a kid and I did NOT like it because of the lima beans...to this day I CANNOT eat lima beans...yuk...Roger

 

[Tom S.]

Not just no but HELL NO!!!

Pork is welcome but cabbage other than coleslaw is verboten.

 

[Masterbuck54]

Heck yeah

Having German/Hungarian mother it was always a New Years staple served with mashed potatoes.

Don’t recall what all mom put it the pot besides sauerkraut & usually a pork shoulder but it was good

Once I left the house and assumed the duties of preparing I use the bagged sauerkraut and rinse it well and squeeze out the best I can the water. Using the crockpot I layer the kraut with plenty of died yellow onions. Place a small pork shoulder (bone in) in and continue to layer around it kraut & onions. Once completed I top off with some bay leaf’s and a can of diced tomatoes. Put it on low and cook a good 10-12 hours.
I might just put it on later today as that stuff always tastes better the next day

Wishing everyone a Happy & healthy New Year!!

Masterbuck54

 

[SPEEDGUNNER]

Pork on New Year's because pigs root ahead.

Never fowl because chickens scratch backwards.

Black-eyed peas for good luck.

Jus' sayin'.

 

[soFlaNative]

Greens for money, cornbread for gold.
Seem to recall a certain # of cowpeas need to be eaten but can't find a reference.

 

[moralem]

Tamales in Texas, the golden corn masa signifies prosperity and the pork filling, as mentioned represents rooting forward with tenacity as the pig forages.

 

[Golddollar]

Seem to recall a certain # of cowpeas need to be eaten but can't find a reference.

Better cowpeas than cow pies.

 

[dave1918a2]

Thought about this for awhile and decided ---No. I only like to eat My food once.

 

[keith44spl]

Jowl bacon, cabbage, black eyed peas and cornbread


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[gjgalligan]

Just the smell of cooked cabbage turns my stomach.

 

[Rustyt1953]

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[Jebus35745]

Pork roast, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and dumplings. Plus Polish sausage, Larry

 

[old tanker]

Hoppin' John and cornbread on New Year's day is also pretty common here in Kentucky.

 

[Spajohn]

Reminds me of the old saw--

A farmer was in the pub bragging about his pig.
"That animal saved my life twice," he said. "Once I fell into the river and he jumped in and dragged me to the bank. Another time my house caught on fire and he ran in and saved me, the wife and kids."

The farmer passes around a picture of the miraculous animal. One of the guys notices the pig is missing a leg.

"Which accident did the pig lose its leg in?" he asks.




"Neither. An animal like that you don't eat all at once!"