New Years Day Traditions?

If I wake up on January 1st, I figure I made it through another year.

our New Years day tradition is laying on the couch all day, maybe every now and again get up and scour the fridge eating everything and anything in sight all while recouping from the previous nights festivities!
...then ponder how Im going to give up smoking yet again :wink:

We used to melt small pieces of lead over a flame and then
drop it in a bowl of cold water. From the shape the lead
forms, one can (supposedly) see signs of luck and fortune
for the coming year.

vomit.....

I usually go out to eat. It is my birthday so like Chai, I have something else to celebrate. However, now that I am older it is not so much a celebration as a downer that I am now aging.

Paul Prudhomme's red beans and rice. We tried the Hop'n John one year (black eyed peas) - YUCK! RB&R is much, much better.

Get together with friends and party. We don't see these people much throughout the year, so when we get together it's excess, excess, excess of everything; food, drinking, talking. We play catchup for an entire year practically.

However, this year, it appears that we will not be joining this group for NYE.

New tradition.

Love ya once
Love ya twice
Love ya more than beans and rice



did you use fresh bep's and not the canned crap?

I just do mine with some sauteed onions and Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce.


CJ - melting lead!?
cool.
do you take any leftover melted lead and pour it over the parapets?

We sacrifice a bullock and after the sacrifice we pull it apart quickly and read the pattern of its entrails. Then we usually watch some football.

No college games this year on Jan. 1. Falls on a Sunday, which happens to be the last day of the NFL season. All bowl games of any importance begin on Jan. 2.

Useta have New Year's Day traditions.

For about 20 years it involved waking up in a room with a whole lotta my friends sleeping all round - first one up had to go to the nearest corner store to buy the January issue of Cosmo (with the Cosmo girls bedside astrologer insert), sour cream and onion tater chips and a LOT of 2 litre bottles of ginger ale. Then we'd loll about and read our matchings/mismatchings to each other until later afternoon, when it was time to cook some kind of good meal full of left-overs.

Then for about 5 years I hosted a New Year's Day brunch. Cooked lotsa lotsa waffles, which were served with sweet and savoury toppings. Kinda got over that need to cook all day.

In my current neighbourhood, there's a tradition of everyone going down to the beach to walk together and greet everyone on New Years Day morning. Kinda cool, saying good morning and happy new year to a coupla thousand people. I like it, and it doesn't involve any special clean-up activities to participate.

bullock cooks up real good.

they taste good with fried taters.

and biscuts and mustard.

aright then

Kegger....

I wish I lived in eBeth's neighborhood. That sounds like a very nice tradition.

From the time I was old enough to notice New Years Eve I worked in a bar. I worked there all through college and then some too. I always worked so not much celebrating on my part.

When I no longer had to work in a bar being around drunk people did not hold much fascination for me so I just stay home and have a regular night.

For the last two years I have had a little cermony where I lock away the Mo diary of parental contacts waiting for the day I turn them all over to my adoption attorney.

I'm looking forward to locking away what is hopefully the last official, legal document diary this year!

I forgot the levees.

I used to love to go to New Year's Levees. Haven't done it in decades.

CJ, we also do the lead thing. We eat nothing that has wings on New Years Day- no poultry, no pheasants, no birds of any sort - so that luck doesn't fly away.
it's traditional to have smoked ham and potato salad for breakfast.

It's a good thing that you don't live in this part of the world! Pigs fly here! :wink:

I always serve ham--or pork--for New Year's because the pig is the only animal who roots forward. Goats, sheep, cows all graze backwards.

I always serve peas or beans because seeds signify beginnings.

Supposedly if you eat black eyed peas on New Year's Day, you'll have wealth coming in the New Year. Still, some authorities assure me that while black eyed peas will guarantee small change you should have a mess of greens to conjure up folding money.

The meal is down to a science now, because I have no intention of spending 2006--or any other year--locked in my kitchen.

I try to start at least one book, finish at least one small project, try something new, re-establish contact with an old friend....

The world is full of places besides kitchens.