We have no New Year's Day traditional food, so we had a kind of potluck with another family. BBQ and sweet and sour meatballs, spinach dip, guacamole, ham sammiches, cheese and crackers, brownies, lemon-blueberry cake, angel food cake.
That sounds like a perfect tradition to start! friends and food in one place with brownies!
We had minestrone soup.
The traditional rural north fl meal is mustard green or collards, black eyed peas and ham Hocks.
It never brought me any luck so I ditched it. Mustard greens
Busy all day, and the Amish market was not open so I couldn't get fresh meat; therefore, I defrosted some beef paprikas and made sweet and sour red cabbage and dumplings to go with it.
We had what I've always called Chili Mac. Sugar Monkey was asking what was in it---ground beef, tomato sauce, corn, cheese, basically. He asked where the chili was. I kinda looked at him, and realized I've been in error all these years. This dish is now re-christened Redneck Spaghetti.
Oh that sounds so good! I love beef stew with big chunks of carrots and potatoes.
We are having plantains, grilled plobanos with bacon wrapped cheese stuffed in them..Mmm,- and pork sandwiches.
My son made dinner last night. pasta with sauce, it was good, he doctored up the sauce with beef, sausage, black olives, and onion, He is getting job from here on out.