We had our usual Sunday mid-day meal with my mother and grandmother, and then we had leftovers for dinner (and our pup got extra treats). Will probably make it up past midnight, but won’t be doing anything celebratory.
We’ll be having multiple New Year’s feasts throughout the week. Tomorrow we’ll be having Soup Joumou (a squash-based soup from Haiti), and then another day this week we’ll have a version of Hoppin’ John (collard greens, black-eyed peas, and sausage), and then another day this week we’ll be having cabbage and corned beef. We’re definitely aiming for health, wealth, and wisdom (or is it luck…we’ll take it all)!
I really think we are the lamest. Got burgers to go from the yummy burger place and then were watching the Dog agility show on tv. Unfortunately, our dog barks at any animals on tv so it was a short lived program
For several years, SIL had a house three doors down from the Rose Bowl parade route. Unfortunately, Michigan was not playing any of those years, so we never took advantage. I’ll regret that tomorrow.
Definitely traditional Southern New Years Day fare but I think other parts of the country have black eyed peas too. We’ll be having them in Hoppin’ John too.
Cook your bacon in the oven 400/ 15-20 minutes (I use an entire pack because I am usually making a large amount). When bacon is done, remove bacon from the sheet pan and roast sweet potatoes (I do medium to large chunks) in the bacon fat. Today I used 6 large sweet potatoes.
Once sweet potatoes are cooled, toss with celery, minced shallots. thyme, bacon (reserve some for the top) and dressing. I don’t measure anything, just my typical potato salad dressing made with Hellmann’s mayo (always Hellmann’s), salt, pepper, apple cider vinegar and a tiny bit of dijon mustard. Top with bacon and lots of Italian parsley.
News Year’s Eve traditions - we watched on line the ball drop in NYC, flew bird seeds out onto the ground while making wishes for the coming year, and signed up for a Habitat for Humanity build this spring.
I know-you have to be imaginative where we live.
For some reason a barrage of privateer fireworks went off at 10:05 in my neighborhood which is weird because we’re Central time. Of course, fireworks had gone off earlier when the Chiefs won. At midnight, nothing. I guess they’d used them all up.
We went to a Heart concert tonight, first time in four years that the Wilson sisters have sung together. They were great, haven’t lost a thing! But within ten minutes of the start of the concert, there were two brawls within ten feet of us. And everybody was shocked, we were all saying the same thing. What the heck, this is a Heart concert. We’re in Seattle (where people are typically nice), and we’re all OLD!! What is going on here?!
This was our first New Year’s in a new home and new country. We couldn’t do all the traditional Japanese New Year’s things we did in the past, but my husband made a great dinner - lobster risotto, crab, steak and pasta (for me, the vegetarian in the group). Then we walked the dog around the old village above us and enjoyed the lights and seeing how our French neighbors were celebrating at the restaurants there. In France, the Christmas holidays continue through the Epiphany on January 6, so it’s still very festive here. I was asleep before midnight but then my son woke me up to see the fireworks, which were a spectacular surprise. Then unfortunately we woke up to the news of an earthquake swarm in Japan.
