I Had Sort Of A Traditional Southern New Year's Day Dinner,

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I Had Sort Of A Traditional Southern New Year's Day Dinner,

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(gluten-free, of course), consisting of pork sausage, mashed taters, cornbread, and to ensure good luck during the rest of the year, black-eyed peas, naturally. Of course, I realize that most people mistakenly refer to the noon meal as "lunch", and they call the evening meal, "dinner", but anyone who grew up in this part of the world knows that the evening meal is supper, not dinner. :lol: :lol:

Anyway, I should have it made, for the rest of the year, now. :wink:

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i had 2 boiled potatoes and a bit cooked chicken sigh!! yours sounded tasty tex... :lol:
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I haven't cooked mine yet, will be supper. I'm having roasted pork roast, black eyed peas and sauteed cabbage. This should insure a very good 2010 for our household.

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Jan,

You can call it "dinner" if you want - I won't hold it against you. :lol:

Just curious - do you usually call it dinner, or supper?

By the way, I love cabbage, but it doesn't seem to care much for me. :sigh:

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Angie,

I'll bet you've never heard of the "tradition" of eating black-eyed peas on New Years Day. I think that started in the Southern U S, after the civil war, but I don't know how far it has spread. A lot of people around here, wouldn't be able to sleep at night, if they forgot to eat black-eyed peas on New Years Day. :lol: :lol: They would be deathly afraid that bad luck would surely follow them all year long. :shock:

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well here the upper crust call it *dinner* we call it supper---or whacha got to eat!!!--

here, it has gotten to the point of *anything thats left over is good enuf to get into the tummy*

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Tex,

Thanks for not holding it against me. I do call it dinner. My family, who has lived in this area all their lives, call it supper. Being a military "brat" I've lived so many different places that dinner it became.

Happy New Year to you.

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Happy New Year Jan, and Happy New Year's Day dinner.

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Mrs. Columbo,

I'm kind of surprised that anyone north of the Mason-Dixon line would use the word "supper" to refer to their evening meal. :thumbsup:

Happy 2010!

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Thnks for explaining that tex... I didn't know that lol.. :lol:
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Naturally, being "raised" in Georgia it was always "dinner" and "supper" and quite often still is. I try to remember not to say "dinner" to someone who thinks it is the evening meal but I do confuse people sometimes.

Seems like I looked it up once and "dinner" was supposed to mean the largest meal of the day which I do prefer somewhere between noon and 4pm. I sleep better if the small meal (or snack) is in the evening.

But, "whatever", long as I get to eat. HaHa

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As long as I can remember our last meal of the day was supper.
Don't be late for supper.
Any ideas on what you'd like for supper.
As soon as I finish the supper dishes.
Anyway, I had sauerkraut, making it the same way thru family tradition, by putting it in the oven from
9am with sliced onion, an apple or two to take some of the tartness off of the kraut, salt/pepper, checking periodically to make sure there still is enough water, and then about 2-3 hours before 6 pm, I put my boneless pork roast in. Then it was also a tradition to put hot dogs in the baking kraut & pork about an hour before serving with mashed potatoes.
I had the black eyed peas last year at my sister's.
I received a call from my sister in Michigan, New Year's Day and she had gone to her son's GF's parents home New Year's Eve. She stated that the sauerkraut wasn't done!!! She said it was still white!!!! :ROFL:
Just what you're use to....

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It's dinner here!

I had chicken primavera (no pasta, just a tomato sauce with veggies)) and brocolli sauteed in garlic and olive oil.
I do know about black-eyed peas and love them! I thought the traditional N.Y's dinner also included pigs' feet and greens.

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You know, Polly, I had completely forgotten about the pickled pigs' feet and greens. :roll: You're right, of course - when I was growing up, my dad never failed to eat some of those on New Years Day, and the rest of us usually joined him. In later years, though, he sort of phased out that tradition, and I'm not aware of anyone in the family who still does that.

Thinking back to those days, when I was a teenager, I worked in a grocery store for a few years, full time during the summer, and on Saturdays, the rest of the year. If I recall correctly, pickled herring was a somewhat popular item for New Years, too, but I might have it mixed up with some other holiday - that was half a century ago. LOL.

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Around here I haven't heard of any New Year traditions except the drink too much and kiss people on the stroke of midnight one. :grin:

My New Years day tucker was grilled beef steak and salad! It is a bit warmer here. :lol:

So, how do you cook black-eye peas? I have seen them dried and tinned, and don't have the foggiest how to cook them so have never tried.

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