Anybody making traditional New Year's Day lucky foods?
12I’ve made up a 6-quart crock pot of black eyed peas with hambone, onions, garlic, three colors of bell peppers, and fresh rosemary, oregano, and sage. Smells pretty divine. I wanted to make some collard greens as well, but I would be the only person eating them. My gaming group is coming over to play Advanced Civilization and to try out the new games Azul and Ticket to Ride Asia that I got for Christmas last night , I hope it brings all of us good fortune in the new year. Most of us could really use it.
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Re: food (including collard greens)
Be still my beating heart.
@moondrake
PS. There is no point in hoping this dish is wonderful.
I know it’s wonderful.
Favor? Not now! Not today!!
But: Even tho I am boycotting most cooking for a time, if you ever felt like sharing your black-eyed pea recipe (esp if there is an El Paso flavor to it)
I would keep and cherish it.
@f00l I don’t cook by recipe, but I’ll share the version I made yesterday if you’d like. There’s a couple of bad flu bugs going around so there ended up being only 6 of us, but the 6qt crock pot was empty at the end, so I guess they came out pretty good.
Starting ingredients: 2-3lb meaty hambone (savory, not sweet), 1lb dried black eyed peas or pinto beans, 64oz chicken broth or stock (I used Swanson’s organic free range), 1 lg chopped yellow onion, 3 chopped garlic cloves. Reserve ingredients: 1/2c mixed fresh sage, oregano and rosemary finely chopped (Albertsons carries a pack with all three called “poultry mix” in the produce section), 2 pretty colored chopped bell peppers, fresh ground pepper, 1/2c flour. Sliced fresh jalapenos if desired.
Wash the beans, cover with water +2" and bring them to a boil on the stove top. Turn off heat, cover, and let sit 1 hour. Rinse well and add to 6qt crockpot with broth, onion, garlic and ham bone. Cook on low overnight. About 2 hours before serving, fish out ham pieces and all bones. Cut up meat and dig out soft marrow and return to pot, discard bones. In a small bowl, mix flour with hot broth to make a paste, add generous amount of fresh ground pepper and stir into pot. Add chopped herbs and bell peppers. If you want to spice it up add fresh sliced jalapenos. Cook on low till serving.
@moondrake
I believe you cook without a formal recipe.
I would believe you don’t need to do much measuring either.
One of my grandmothers did this. She always had goodies ready on hand. She would use them as payment; she would assign the kids tasks. When the tasks were completed, the kids got a treat. And another task.
That way she kept us out of her way, and away from that big iron gas range in the kitchen.
@f00l Yeah, I don’t measure at all. Other than the 1lb bag of beans and the two 32oz boxes of broth, all those amounts are guesses looking back at the approximate volume I used. IME, baking requires reasonable precision, cooking is mostly on the fly.
My grandmother occasionally made us these awesome peach fried pies. Very simple, a thin batter made, as best I recollect, with flour, water (milk?) and salt. Crepe-like, fried in butter. Fresh peaches and sugar mashed together with the back of a fork. She’d spoon in some batter, after it started to cook she’d spoon peaches on top and flip it shut and seal it with the edge of the spatula. She’d be smacking us with the spatula as we crept up and stole them out of the skillet bare handed. The good old days.
@moondrake
On CaseMates, this linked topic is about very enviable food and drink each evening. And as much or more about cooking as about wine.
To think these dinners are prepared with such care in people’s homes!
https://casemates.com/forum/topics/what-are-ya-drinking-tonight-ii
These are people who approach dinner with knowledge and imagination. And they care.
I can’t and won’t measure up. I’ve other feathers to chase. But I really enjoy the reading.
You might like this topic. And they might, very much, like hearing about your amazing cooking and your shared meals.
Fatback and Black-eyed Peas are a requirement. My daddy used to call me on New Year’s Day to make sure of the menu. I admit that I use maple-cured bacon, and not fatback. I supplement it with scrambled eggs, and of course, the black-eyed peas (which I like, in the winter).
I miss my daddy. I’ll lift a glass in his honor this evening.
@Shrdlu
@Shrdlu I understand.
@Shrdlu My Dad’s birthday is Twelfth Night. 110 years ago. Hardly a day passes when I don’t think of him. Yes, black eye peas, collards and pickles. Cyanne in a shaker, vinegar/pepper sauce in a cruet and a new bottle of hot sauce.
@Shrdlu I miss my Daddy too every single day. Luckily, he knew how extremely picky I am with food. When he was alive, I made hog jowls, blackeye peas, and collards. Yesterday I had ham (for luck), spinach (for greenbacks), and sugar snap peas (for coins).
@Shrdlu
I miss making chili con queso from scratch, for my Dad.
(The recipe is one I cribbed from “Time-Life Foods Of The World: American Cooking: The Great West”. It uses a small about of a base roux as a kind of starter, if I recall. It is better than I could have believed.)
He loved it so much, he ate most of it standing at the stove while I was trying to cook.
(No Velveeta)
Looked a lot like this:
I’m doing my traditional New Year’s Day dieting. I’m not sure how lucky I am.
@Barney
Let us waft some purple luck your way.
/image “purple luck” 2
My wife and I realized in shock yesterday morning that we didn’t have the required food planned, so I made an emergency trip to the store today.
Got the sous vide warming up for pork tenderloin, plus collard greens and black eyed peas! I’ve never cooked collared greens before so hopefully I don’t drop the ball and doom us to poverty for 2018
Great day to use a slow cooker. I’ve got goulash finishing up. Chuck roast, onions, peppers, garlic, tomato paste, caraway seeds, and lots of paprika. To be served over egg noodles.
Oops. I missed the part about lucky foods. I just like goulash.
@fibrs86 shameless goulash enthusiast!
Black eyed peas with ham in the Instant Pot (10 minutes). Ham biscuits, banana cake etc. Baking is a good idea, because it’s been about 42 with a 25 mph north wind all day. Currently the NWS says light snow, but it feels like light sleet to me. I picked the rest of the mandarins, because it’s going to freeze tonight. Maybe mulled cider and store-bought stollen later. It’s only the eighth day of Christmas.
@OldCatLady
Snow or sleet in Jacksonville? Wow.
@f00l You said it. Also widespread local power outages, cause undetermined. I don’t have any backup heat source, so all I can do is hope it won’t spread.
@OldCatLady
Ice on wires, and falling branches set that off here during/after ice storms.
For those whose last names end in vowels, I made Grandmother Leonardo’s NYE lentil soup in my new 8 in 1 pressure cooker crockpot thing. Just enough left to have my daughter’s new fiance (ring last night) the chef take a taste. Let’s see if he’s smart enough to tell me it’s the most delicious thing he’s ever eaten.
I don’t do it. I’m not really superstitious.
@RiotDemon
Not really about superstitious.
About traditional. And about good
@RiotDemon I don’t go out of my way to eat them, but will eat if offered. I don’t have any ingredients in the house anyway.
As a side note, I keep reading this thread as the “Icky Foods” thread. lol
@f00l black eyed peas and collards aren’t something I keep around, or ever cook. I think I had black eyed peas once when someone brought in a bunch to work to spread luck.
Just had a wonderful dinner of black eyed peas, cabbage and cornbread. My wife requested that I do sausage in the cabbage so I looked around and found some chicken Italian sausage and did a different Italian style take on cabbage with said sausage and some tomato sauce in it. That may become the new tradition.
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Yes.
Wings & Beer, Pizza & Salad & more Beer.
@daveinwarsh Sorry for the off topic, but what’s with your tree badge?
@ruouttaurmind My stupid video clip was used for the 12 Days of Xmas…
I didn’t know about it until it was there…
I think it’s for the month of Jan.
@daveinwarsh
Black-eyed peas 'n ham hocks (Health), and cabbage rolls (Wealth) stuffed with oyster dressing (Virility) for the trifecta.
Black eyed peas with ham, butter, and black pepper and cabbage stir fry with snow peas, carrots, broccoli, and sweet peppers. Washed it down with a bottle of Kirkland sparkling wine, which isn’t Champagne, but is damn good.
OTOH, superstition is of the devil, so it was just for a good time.
Had black eyed peas with dinner… does this mean a year of great deals on great stuff?
@thismyusername Totally- you just need to find a site that does that.
Special Japanese foods for the 31st and the first. Tempura with udon noodles were my favorites!
@luvche21
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Marketside-Udon-Noodle-And-Kale-Salad/1186129
@therealjrn I had to click the link to figure out what the shop vac has to do with it. I still don’t understand lol. Thanks walmart! Too bad it’s out of stock!
@luvche21 I was looking up your noodles when I found it
pork and sauerkraut
@jml326 Yum. My kids would run away from home if I made that. Maybe I should try it.
@jml326 Kapusta!
@cranky1950 Haluski and Golumpki to follow!
Nah, did that last year and 2017 was a pretty crappy year, so I figure fuck it all.
@cranky1950 You’re cranky.
@cranky1950
Now you’ve done it. : p
@hems79 no pissed off there a slight difference
Pork and Sauerkraut here too!