Any one else make

[Callalily]

"good luck" foods on New Year's Day?

Throughout the years I've made many verions of black eyed peas and dishes that included lentils (cotechino con lenticchie is super yummy). This year I'm thinking about fish.

http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holidays/newyearsday/luckyfoods

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Yes! Was just discussing with my wife - a veggie version of Hopping John...

a good luck black eyed peas dish. We need to go find the recipe again (Googled for it last year)

[HopeHoops]

3. I like them cooked without spice and add Tabasco on my plate.

If you cook them ahead of time and chill them, they make a great "salsa" with corn, chopped red pepper, a little chopped hot pepper, and some spices (basil, thyme, cilantro, oregano, rosemary, parsley, whatever you like). Sprinkle (conservatively) balsamic vinegar over it and stir well. If I don't take some right after it is made, I never get any - the kids inhale it.

[Callalily]

7. Ohhhhh . . . this sound very tasty!

[HopeHoops]

2. Black-eyed peas.

"Looking forward."

[yellerpup]

4. I like to make a good ($) luck meal.

Blackeyed peas, carrot coins, folding green salad, rich roasted pork and plenty of bread to go with it all.

[GoCubsGo]

5. I just do the herring thing--if I am awake at midnight.

I have my can of herring and mustard sauce waiting for me in the pantry No cooking required. Yum! I love it in sour cream, too.

[japple]

6. New Year's Day dinner is a Southern tradition and mine generally includes

black-eyed peas, rice, greens (kale, turnip, cabbage ora mixture of different kinds) sauteed with garlic and cumin, cornbread, and some kind of pork. I always fry up hog jowl and usually everyone has just a bite for luck, depending on the quality of the jowl--it's harder and harder to find good stuff. Most of the time I make a pork loin or we eat leftover ham from Christmas. Several years ago, a couple from Boston were guests on New Year's Day and they kept talking about how "light" the food was. I guess I never got that part!

[Callalily]

8. Sounds like a wonderful tradition of foods!

[Jazzgirl]

9. Must. Have. Blackeyed. Peas.

I must! It is a big must with me.