Collard greens, check! Hog jowls, check! Cornbread, on its way.

[HillWilliam]

Buttermilk biscuits from scratch for breakfast. A pot of pinto beans (I ain't eatin' blackeyed peas, ugh!) on the stove. New Year's dinner has to start today.

Every day is a gift. Nobody gets promised tomorrow. But if we get tomorrow, we're having a (more-or-less) traditional southern New Year's chowdown!

How are y'all celebrating?

[xchrom]

1. celebrating sans Hog Jowls here!

happy new year!

[HillWilliam]

5. Ok, I cheated a little

I got hog jowl bacon. Incredibly tender, thin slices. Oh, you should smell these greens and the beans. It takes a day of prep to get them just right and tender.

I cook like mammaw except I no longer start with a stick of butter or a couple slices of fatback. I can't eat like that any more (though I'd love to!).

[xchrom]

10. Ok I can get behind Hog Jowl bacon.

But don't get me wrong - I like and fix some stuff other people would not find appealing.

Love greens - love 'em.

I use butter & some part of a smoked pig in there.

Gotta have that smoked pig in there - I do the same for black-eye peas, navy beans, pinto beans, etc - a whole host of slow cook stuff like that. Gets a butter & smoked pig treatment.

[MNBrewer]

2. No black eyed peas?

Heretic!

[HillWilliam]

7. Hey, any bean with an eye counts

The eye connotes coins and the greens represent folding money.

Call me whatcha want, I still ain't eatin' blackeyed peas. Ew, little dirtballs LOL

[William769]

3. I may have been born a Hillbilly, but no Hog jowls & collard greens for me!

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Just another one of the many reasons I am the black sheep of the family.

My New Years day dinner will be country pork ribs, sour kraut, potatoes & cornbread from an iron skillet (well maybe a little hillbilly).

[HillWilliam]

6. Any pork counts :)

We've got some chunks of roast from leftovers in the freezer against such an occasion. We're having pulled-pork bbq. Ho-made!

[Vanje]

4. Where I live, the traditional meal for new years is Menudo.

I'm cooking up a big pot .

Menudo Rojo con maiz

[HillWilliam]

8. I love a good bowl of menudo

but I can't get hubby past las tripas

[Vanje]

9. Then Pozole!

[HillWilliam]

13. I'd love a good recipe for tamale filling n/t

[mitchtv]

11. we made a vat of turkey soup`

from our Xmas turkey ;brought a pot to neighbors, friends, and family in the neighborhood. spent today picking up my pots. It was first time tasting chayote for several of them. We fed 7 in all and have plenty left!

[HillWilliam]

12. We had a duck for Christmas dinner

Did it on the rotisserie - O. M. G was it good. What little meat was left we picked off the carcass, skimmed that (copious) fat off the drippings and made soup. I'll take this duck soup over turkey any day (and I love turkey soup!). We froze a bunch of it. I might make a pot-pie of it some time through the winter

[Fair Witness]

14. I just started the blackeye peas (we love ALL legumes!) with some ham hocks in the pot.

Tomorrow I'll make the cawn-bread There's some leftover leg of lamb from Xmas, we'll be having that on pita with the Tzatziki I made this morning.
woohoo yum!

[HillWilliam]

15. Since we've been able to get Fage

we've eaten lots of home-made tzatziki. There's something that goes on most everything that srirche won't

Oh, and I got the makings of a nannerpuddin'. Can't have a suthren feast without nannerpuddin.

I'll make the cornbread tomorrow night. I make it like mammaw did, from scratch in a hot-hot skillet then pop it into the oven. I love that crunch crust. So good it'll make ya tongue fly out and slap your eyelids shut.

[William769]

16. For you Will. Bring back any memories?

[HillWilliam]

18. ROFLMAO -- Oh, yeah, and it's entirely true

You did NOT take that last biscuit off the plate. That was a whuppin'.

Love me some Jerry Clower. My favorite is the hunting story with the bobcat: "Far the gun! One of us has GOT to have some relief!"

[William769]

19. I was looking for the bouncing biscut skit

But I couldn't find it.

[MNBrewer]

17. I think I'll make some pad thai

on New Year's day.

[HillWilliam]

20. I usually make wonton dumplings

for Solstice. I did for Thanksgiving, so I'm chopped, folded, pinched and fried out for this year. They sure do go down easy. Can't eat just one (dozen) heh