What are you cooking for New Year's Day?

We’ve got a place for the week on the Outer Banks. New Years brunch will be eggs Benedict with fresh crab cakes instead of English muffin and Canadian bacon. Coffee, mimosas and other inebriates to cushion the blow!

want to share your recipe?

It’s pretty simple. Start with fresh crab meat. Canned meat will do in a pinch but there’s nothing like fresh seafood.

When making the mixture, use one egg (for two cakes), and not to many bread crumbs. Keep it meaty. We add some minced onions and a shake or two of hot sauce. When frying the cakes, we use a cast iron skillet heated up then fry on a medium-low heat. Don’t use too much oil! The cakes will cook more evenly and won’t get greasy.

Poaching the eggs can be tricky. When boiling the water, add some white vinegar then stir the water (clockwise or the other way) before carefully putting the eggs into the water. We use a metal slotted spoon to stir and control the eggs. Removing them from the water is the hardest part; my wife gets upset if she breaks the poached egg but I don’t really care.

Although we’ve made Hollandaise sauce from scratch, lately we’ve been using the Knorr mix. It’s a little salty but we compensate by not using any salt in the preparation.

To serve, we put a leaf or two of Romaine on a plate, put the crab cake on the lettuce, followed by the poached egg (one per cake, of course), then drench it all with the sauce. Garnish with some tomato and parsley.

Happy new year, Trueblue!

I pretty much made my crab cakes like that only I didn't use hot sauce. I told my best friend, who shared them with me, that I thought they need more spice. next time I'll try that. Thanks for sharing!

She was born and raised in the Eastern Shore of Virginia

Cracker Barrel cornbread, fried oysters and salad.

It is time.

Meatballs and Italian sausage, as well as Eggplant Parmesana.

. . .and leafy green salad.

Garlic Stuffed Pork Roast
Sauerkraut
Kielbasa
Mashed potatoes
All consumed after midnight and the pot banging. I married into this tradition.

Grab a pot or large pan and a wooden spoon. Not as obnoxious as fireworks but good enough to make your presence known. More traditions.

pork and sauerkraut with mashed potatoes. We didn't eat pork when I was growing up (religious reasons), but in PA it's a pretty common New Years dish because of all the German immigrants. I've had to look at recipes online to figure out how to do it and I hope it comes out well but I worry about the fattiness of the pork.

if you didn't grow up with pork, you probably aren't aware that over the years they have genetically bred the fat out.

Of course you can buy particularly fatty pork, but you have to want it or look for it in the first place.

Hope it turns out like you hope.

Burger is thawing in fridge. Leaning spaghetti, but not sure yet.

It was funny growing up. We had turkey for Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Years day, then no turkey all year.

Nobody ever got tired of eating turkey. Lol

Enjoy!

Is it good?

I ended up making spaghetti.

FINALLY, in Denver metro, we have some snow!!!!!

It's a soup day!

I think I will eat a portion now for good luck (aren't you supposed to eat it on New Year Eve or Day before anything else? Not sure) and then freeze some portions. Maybe with some brown rice-- Hoppin John style.

supposed to be coldest night so far this winter and it is already down to 36 at 5 pm, may get to upper teens.