New Years Dinner 2019
 

I dont have as clue as to what I will eat but I have a few things in mind.
You know stuff I haven had in a good long while.

Personally I couldn't care less about the greens ham and black eyed peas.
So that is off the list for me.

On the list of possibilities is deep fried sweetbreads I haven't had them in maybe over a year.
Maybe some pre-pressure cooked batter dipped deep fried chicken gizzards too.


What are you all having may I ask?

Worth

We're having cabbage rolls and who knows what else will pop up. Has anyone noticed the size of cabbage in the stores? I checked 4 stores and they're all small heads, must be the warm weather.

I also want to try a soup recipe from Kent Rollins, Cowboy Collard Greens and Black Eyed Pea Soup with Bacon Fried Cornbread
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Cabbage heads not much bigger than a softball in the store, I just checked.

Worth

Bagna Cauda with Italian Bread, cabbage, portobello mushrooms, cauliflower and thin sliced smoked coffee encrusted New York Strip steak to use for "dippers".

Tomorrow morning, I will do the cooking and here's my breakfast menu.

Breakfast steaks dipped in all purpose flour.
Hash Browns
Scrambled or over easy eggs
Sliced tomatoes
Home made skillet gravy (made with skillet drippings)
Biscuits and toast
Coffee
Orange juice and/or Milk for the kids

This is my tradition for my branch of the family. I call it "Comfort Food".

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Menu for afternoon brunch

Beer-Battered Butterfly shrimp
New York cut steaks with sautéed sweet peppers and onions with Captain Morgan spiced rum
Baked potato
Rolls and Garlic Texas Toast
A Large salad tray with Hidden Valley sour cream dip
A fruit tray
Home made Friendship Cake, Lemon Pie, Chocolate Pie, and Apple Pie
Home canned pears with ice cream
Home made tomato juice
Coffee, juices, & Diet Pepsi, with Beer, Blush wine, Sherry, and spirits for the adults

No real tradition here. It just tastes good and allows snacking the rest of the day.

From our house to you and yours, we wish you all the very best for the coming new year.

Ted & Judy
Muddy Bucket Farm

Pork and sauerkraut is the good luck tradition in my area. I don't believe that stuff but hubby likes pork and sauerkraut so I may as well make it.

I made a huge pot of minestrone yesterday. You add a dollop of pesto to your bowl and ladle the hot soup over it.
Heaven.

Our tradition is potato chips and cucumber dip (cukes, neufschatel cream cheese, & Worcestershire sauce). Usually it's on New Year's Eve, but this year we'll be piggin' out on New Year's Day.

Just got this gifted to me.
Made in Houston Texas.
Having a glass as we speak.
Not as good as Evan Williams but a heck of a lot better than Jack Daniels.
Worth
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Looks good!
I'm with you..on Evan Williams, but Jim Beam is my go to bourbon, and I don't drink Jack Daniels...ever!

I bought a couple bottles of good bourbon about 15 years ago, Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve 15 year old and Van Winkle 12 year old "lot b"... I came home to my brother in law drinking most of it... But I still have the bottles! The empties are almost worth what I paid originally, but the full bottle of Pappy would be worth a grand today.[IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190101/69290450faa1fb8585cbb12425a88534.jpg[/IMG]


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+1 for Beam!!!

I've been on a micro brewery beer kick and bought a few to try tonight before I make smash burgers. My favorite is citra hops and it's hard to top Parish brewing but I keep trying.

I'm starting off with this, it's not bad but I won't buy it again.

Well after two drinks and my beef soup supper I'm ready for bed and that is where I'm going to read my book
Been a long cold day and I'm cold.

Y'all can stay up drinking till 12 midnight if you want.
Just keep the noise down and Happy New Year.
See ya in 2019.

Worth

Cheers to the new year!! :cheers:

It will be an early evening for me, as well.

Blackeyed peas and smoked hog jowl tomorrow!
Happy New Year, my friends!

Wishing you and yours a healthy and prosperous 2019!
Jon

I'm so traditional...yawwwn;

Black Eyed Peas,
Steamed Cabbage
Baby Back Ribs

Well I was expecting friends for dinner but that got cancelled due to flu on both sides (I'm on the tail end of it thank goodness). I had already thawed shrimp and pork tenderloin so had to cook them. Had a large portion of Gambas al Ajillo for supper over a little rice, and will be having the same today since it has to be et! :roll: The pork tenderloin went in the slow cooker and has not even been tasted yet....
This year I've been gifted some amazing wines from all sides. I had a second bottle of the J Lohr Paso Robles cabernet which was pretty awesome to wash down my tasty shrimp. :yes: Still on the shelf is an Anciano tempranillo ten year old Spanish red, and a Chateauneuf du Pape (crazy expensive wine these days but an old favorite from back when... just love it!). That'll have to wait for flus to get better and blizzards to subside/be shoveled out.
Hope everyone enjoyed their last meal/first meal of the year and be well nourished in the year ahead. :)

Got this giant white hominy cooking it was soaked over night.
I have no idea what direction I will go with it.
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Decided to go with a red pozole soup AKA Pozole Rojo.

Hominy looks fantastic. Good choice on the soup.

Made giant tamales and a Peruvian green sauce to top at the table.

Three different beans soaking for today...not sure how I'll use them.

That looks fantastic.
Going to pressure cooker some gizzards and put them in and save some to fry.
Might even consider some beef sweet breads too.
Sounds disgusting to some I know but it is traditional and I was raised on them.
Here it is so far.
Lots of pre made chili powder and ancho powder with extra cumin.
Worth
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This soup is turning out amazing.
I have no idea why I never thought about using beef sweetbreads before.
Added hot smoked Spanish paprika whole chili arbol and garlic powder.
This is NOT anything you will find in any Text Mex restaurant.

I just wish my camera or something didn't wash out the bright red color it is.:(
Worth
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Well, breakfast was so good and we ate so much that brunch has officially voted to be about two hours later than originally planned. This decision was made by unanimous agreement. I am curled up on the couch with my first "martoonie" of the day. I'll start cooking again in a couple hours. I always try to do the cooking on New Year's Day as a thank you and acknowledgement to my wife for her hard work thruout the year. Actually, I try to do the cooking as often as I can pry her hands off the stove. :) Yes, she's very dedicated. :)

Sounds good Ted I haven't had anything to eat or drink all day but testing stuff.
Been fooling with this darn soup.
Just put chopped tender gizzards in from the pressure cooker along with all the broth.
Worth

Last picture I promise. :lol:
Final ingredients two orange bell peppers and two yellow onions.
Worth
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Oakley, what is your side veg/salad that is so colorful? The colors are simply beautiful. And that nice micro green salad, yum!

The sweetbreads and gizzards are swimming in hot fat as we speak and I was finally able to have a drink after running some errands.
Cant wait to eat.
A very cheap but tasty New Years dinner.:yes:

Worth

Rather bizarre New Years meal but it was good.:)
Wishing all well in 2019.
Worth

Mum & I gorged ourselves on potato chips with our traditional cucumber dip for lunch. In order to counteract that unhealthy lunch, for supper we had carrots & yogurt.

DH has a sinus & lung infection; couldn't join us.

NYE Dinner was a no-brainer. Have a loyalty card at the local pub that amounts to 5% back on purchases. Always have NYE Dinner & drinks free there each year with much left over. I had a deliciously tender Prime Rib, with a crab cake as an appetizer, Caesar salad and soup with a chocolate volcano cake for dessert. The DW2b had the same with a shrimp cocktail appetizer and the 9oz lobster tail as the entrée. The 1st lobster was mushy, sent it back - the 2nd was perfect (happens with frozen seafood sometimes). We'll spend the balance of the leftover loyalty-bucks this month and start all over again. Rinse & repeat for next year.
They had a duo with electronic drums, keyboard, etc that started to play at around 8:30p ... I insisted we leave once they came on (horrid, like a Holiday Inn lounge band).