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Yes, cooked cabbage eaten on the first day of the new year is supposed to bring you luck for the year. Everyone ~HAPPY NEW YEAR~🙂 Greydove~^~
Oyster soup on New Year’s Eve, although this is not done since my father has been gone. He and my mother used to have a big party that included oyster soup. Not my favorite though. Mom made chili for those of us who did not eat the oyster soup. We now have it for Christmas but there are lots of other soups.
Multiple soups have become our Christmas tradition since I had Christmas at my house many years ago. I don’t like to cook and don’t consider myself a good cook, to be honest, so I made multiple soups, and this has become the tradition. We had my in-laws on Monday for a weather and flu-delayed Christmas. I made four different kinds of soup. We have it at my mother’s on Saturday (another weather and flu-delayed celebration) and will have several kinds of soup there too.
Techteach
New years is the biggest holiday of the year where I was raised, so we had all kinds of food. We feasted for several days, Christmas was just the warm up. We’d go from house to house visiting and feasting. Besides all the constant snacking and cooking, we’d have the new years eve meal, the midnight meal after the fireworks, the new years morning meal, another miday feast, then again in the evening, and then we’d roll ourselves home and clean house.
Mostly various fish, rice, and bean dishes of the Asian and Polynesian variety. Each meal had different foods. I have to drive over 500 miles to find most of those foods now. I brought some to work for lunch and freaked out my co-workers. One fellow has taken to calling me seagull cause he says I’ll eat anything.
Our family does the cabbage on New Year’s Day for luck, too. This year Mom fixed fried cabbage, corned beef & cabbage, and for those of us who don’t like either one of those, she made egg rolls and put cabbage in them.
Stacey
My dad would cook up a giant pot of blackeyed peas for a large group of family and friends. But standing over the large pot of hot water, each person visiting, starting with the youngest person, would hold their hands cupped together over the pot, and my dad would pour the dry blackeyed peas into their hands. Then the person would make their wish for the new year, then spread their fingers open letting all the peas slip between their fingers into the pot. When all the family and friends had done this, then the cooking would begin. This way we were “cookin’ up” all the wishes for the new year!
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