New Years - Traditional Good Luck Foods
 

Well, my collard greens are cooking and smell so yummy. Can't wait to have that first cup of hot pot likker. My bag of dried blackeyed peas are on the counter waiting to be sorted and washed. Cornbread rounds out our New Year's Day dinner.

So what's your traditional New Year's Day good luck food foods.

My mother used to cook black eyed peas...and honestly I just chose to press my luck cause I never ate them.

I always make black-eyed peas, greens, fried hog jowl, cornbread and fried potatoes with onions ...yum

I think I will just have to settle with crossing my fingers.

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Yap, same thing I have been doing for all my years....think I might try some black eyed peas...lol but first I have to figure out how to make them..hmmm

Ok, so how do you make all that stuff?? well maybe not the hog jowl...LOL

Hog jowl?

hog jowls or fat back... added to beans (fresh and legunes) and greens.



I just put my black eye peas on to soak. This year I found a soup that uses black eye peas.. with ham and greens. Tradisionaly we have ham, cabbage and black eye peas. This meal means you have money the year long.

What in the world is hot pot likker?

Our family has always just had black-eyed peas but I've not always served them myself. This year I did buy some in case I wanted to have them.

yep!!

Err....a.....afraid to ask exactly what hog jowl but what is it?

Where have I been all these years....lol
Might need to do some homework ;)

lol.... I think we speak the same langauge when it comes to food lol

pot licker... the juice from the collard greens!! sign ... yankees:rolleyes:

Oh boy I have a lot to learn...:D

Michelle will be better at explaining but I think it is the meat from the Jowls / cheeks... it is like bacon I think. A fatty meat.

Does anyone serve cabbage or sauerkraut with the ham and black eye peas? Just wondering

no... its ok... I really didn't know that terms until recently .. just teasing!

I love food tradisions, it really shows a lot of the culture and history of people.

I would think the jowl would just be gristle and fibrous cartilage - didn't know it would be meat per se. I really always thought "hog jowl" was just a term for some other cut on the hog! But they really cut their cheeks out, cook and eat them, huh????

Me too....I think I might try to make something??? hmmm, what should I try?? I do have to work tomorrow though....ugh

Collard green juice doesn't sound so appetitizing but it must be! A lot of Southerners are always talking about eating collard greens and cornbread. I hear a lot of athletes saying they miss their mama's collard greens.

Here is a great article about hog jowl... I usually put my hog jowl in a shallow pan and broil it. I also use it to season my greens and black eyed peas :)


Hog Jowls and Pork: Explaining Southern New Year's Traditions

one about black eyed peas http://littlerock.about.com/b/2010/1...traditions.htm

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corn bread and collard greens :D

http://littlerock.about.com/b/2011/0...traditions.htm

That is a great post...enjoyed reading it...thanks

Wow. That's interesting. Had no idea that those foods had those histories and beliefs about them. I'm going to try to get my paws on a lot of cornbread New Year's Day, haha.

We have sauerkraut cooked with pork roast and mash potatoes .....I'm German and grow up with that tradition... Also we can have no dirty laundry in the house,it brings bad luck for the coming year..

I'm starting a new tradition as of this year. Last year I did this as a one-off but if I do it the second time on 1-1-2013, it will be a tradition. I ate chocolates last New Year's Day and this year, I think I will again. Just happen to have a small box in the bedroom dresser! One of the chocolates is Coffee Creme.

WOWsie, I'm glad to know that others speak my language! I put smoked hog jowls in my collards - ham goes into the blackeyed peas. Boy o boy that pot likker was delish! My mother always said that we ate peas for good luck and the collards were for a good cleansing -- that part was right :D.

Here are a few traditions

Eating noodles at midnight is customary at Buddhist temples in Japan.

A German/Pennsylvania Dutch tradition is to eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's day for good luck.

It is a Cuban tradition to eat 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight. The 12 grapes signify the last twelve months of the year.

German folklore says that eating herring at the stroke of midnight will bring luck for the next year.

Eating pickled herring as the first bite of the New Year brings good luck to those of Polish descent.

In the southern United States, it is believed eating black eyed peas on New Year's eve will bring luck for the coming year.

Also from the south comes the custom of eating greens such as cabbage, collard greens, mustard greens, kale or spinach to bring money.

One more from the Southerners: eating cornbread will bring wealth.

The Southern custom of eating greens can be found in other cultures as well, although the cabbage can take many forms, such as sauerkraut or even kimchee.

In the Philippines, it is important to have food on the table at midnight in order to insure an abundance of food in the upcoming year.

Boiled Cod is a New Year's Eve must in Denmark.

Olie Bollen a donut-like fritter is popular in Holland for New Year.

Black-eyed peas, fish, apples, and beets are eaten for luck at the Jewish New Year's celebration (not celebrated on Jan 1).

My mother in law always said you have to have blackeyed peas and some kind of pork for meat you cant have any kind of bird cause they scratch backwards and pigs root forward!! ;):D

It's not juice...like in processing the greens to make juice....it is the liquid in the pot of greens.. I guess the word juice wasn't the best word

Now I know why I don't have money lol....don't like collard greens:eek:

No, I got your original meaning. I wasn't thinking "juice" juice either, as the juice of a raw fruit or vegetable, just the kind of slurry or "juice" from the cooking of the veggie, water and spices, seasonings. That's what didn't sound so good to me. But I do like collard greens okay as long as I am eating them with other, better tasting foods - hehe. So, the slurry or juice from cooking them didn't sound so good just on its own. But it must be for it to have its own term as in "pot likker"!