2007 Starters

echoes · 12-31-2006, 13:52

Greetings! Was curious if anyone had great food for the New Year?

We always start ours off with blackeyed peas and cornbread. It's all about good luck.

Holly

Squidly · 01-04-2007, 10:40

Blackeye peas (w/ ham hock left over from Thanksgiving), cornbread, salisbury steak and gravy, fried 'taters, collards, and iced tea. Forgot how fast dried peas cook and rolled them first. Still good but not as good as cooked straight up.

jasonglh · 01-04-2007, 14:29

My stepmother always cooks for New Years Day. The standard items include: black eyed peas, cabbage, corn bread (real corn bread not the crap you get from Cracker Barrel), jowl bacon, fried taters, and dads infamous sweet tea.

The year was educational as my wife admitted after 15 years she didn't know exactly what a "ham hock" was. I think the actual question was something along the lines of "What part constitutes the hock?".

Squidly · 01-04-2007, 15:37

Yeah, I forgot the hog jowl. Usually fry it up before adding to the beans so it has a decent texture.

The greens are supposed to signify cash all year. I forget what the BEPs and the hog jowl represent.

kachingchingpow · 01-05-2007, 08:25

BEP's are for good luck/prosperity. Collards = money.

I had mounds of both, to include some ham, country style ribs, jalepeno cornbread, a few turkey & gingers and the Ga Tech game.

Our subdivision has a big pot-luck dinner on New Years every year. We also had a big New Years eve bash, which I mananaged to quick-time away from shortly after midnight. Those folks that stuck around till 0400 didn't look too well at the pot-luck. Had it not been for an 8hr drive back from Florida earlier that day, I might've been a casualty as well.

**Roguish Lawyer** · 01-05-2007, 15:13

Admittedly this is based on a small sample, but I have found that clam chowder and lobster rolls tend to be pretty damned good in New England, no matter where you order them.

echoes · 01-17-2007, 18:18

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-b...fferson/home_2

Thomas Jefferson's favorite food was
Peach flambé (flaming peaches), and ice cream!

I enjoy peaches, but my favorite pie to make is cherry.
(From my grandma's receipe.)

I wonder what the favorite pie is for SF Soldiers?

Holly

lksteve · 01-17-2007, 19:24

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Originally Posted by echoes

I wonder what the favorite pie is for SF Soldiers?

from my personal perspective, pie and whisky fall into the same category...if someone else baked it, brought it, bought it or stole it, it's my favorite at the time...just like whisky...

that said, i love cherry and peach pie, but those fruits are very perishable...pumpkin pie is a seasonal necessity, but because apples keep really well (my grand parents had a 5 acre orchard and a apple cellar) you can have apple pie year round...can't really make a fresh cherry pie or peach pie in December...there are also a lot of variations of apple pie...

my $0.02...

echoes · 01-19-2007, 09:46

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Originally Posted by lksteve

from my personal perspective, pie and whisky fall into the same category...if someone else baked it, brought it, bought it or stole it, it's my favorite at the time...just like whisky

Sir, LMAO. Thanks for sharing.

Laughs are good for the soul...like pie!

Holly