Happy New Year

Happy New Year Brush and all.
Not good being a whitetail tonight. 2 degrees right now and 0 by daylight. Mix in a light breeze. o_O
 
Happy new year. Wishing everyone lots of pork and sauerkraut.
...or BBQand french fries!!
Happy new year. Wishing everyone lots of pork and sauerkraut.
Is pork and sauerkraut a New Year tradition in the great white North? My mother always did Black Eyed Peas on New Years Day.
The more you eat, the better the year will be. Momma is from Georgia (go dogs!) So I'm thinking it's a Southern tradition.
 
Pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day is a big PA Dutch thing that has roots in German (kraut) and Irish (pork) traditions. Some superstitious people believe you should eat pork because it’s your luckiest meal of the year, as pigs “root forward,” unlike chickens and turkeys' who “scratch backwards ” — so it symbolizes progress. And the kraut is green, like cash money. The grandparents would tell the children if you eat sauerkraut you'll be sweet all year. I'm not superstitious, we just make it on New Years, because that's what we always did.
 
Black eyed peas, deer steak, corn, salad, and rolls...black eyed peas are for prosperity, deer steaks are for a great new year hunting season (works well for us), corn for the gold and salad for the green which both have to do with wealth and rolls because I like em ;)
 
I'm up for a new New Years tradition. Black Eyed peas for lunch and Pork and sauerkraut tonight for dinner!
Many Thanks!
 
We have collards for the green in SC!
I just tasted my first collard greens... I just got back from a visit to Macon, MS. We ate at the Wagon Wheel restaurant, and they brought a side of cooked collard greens. I couldn't eat them. Is it an acquired taste, or perhaps they weren't made right?
 
I just tasted my first collard greens... I just got back from a visit to Macon, MS. We ate at the Wagon Wheel restaurant, and they brought a side of cooked collard greens. I couldn't eat them. Is it an acquired taste, or perhaps they weren't made right?
There is a difference between collard greens and turnip greens in flavor. I like them both, but both need to have a big ol' hunk of hog jowl or bacon in it. Collards greens can have a little bitterness to them and I have found that a little vinegar(balsamic is great) knocks that out. Be careful though, to much and all you taste is vinegar. Also, the longer they cook with the pork in them, the better they taste.
 
There is a difference between collard greens and turnip greens in flavor. I like them both, but both need to have a big ol' hunk of hog jowl or bacon in it. Collards greens can have a little bitterness to them and I have found that a little vinegar(balsamic is great) knocks that out. Be careful though, to much and all you taste is vinegar. Also, the longer they cook with the pork in them, the better they taste.
Yes, they seemed bitter and overcooked. I'll try them again somewhere else, next time I travel south. Speaking of which, I wish I was there right now, lots of single digits here this week.
 
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