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#101327 - 01/02/07 12:02 AM
New Year good luck food
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Registered: 11/18/05
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Loc: Daytona Beach, Florida
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Since moving to the South, I learned that we're supposed to eat greens and black-eyed peas on New Year's day for good luck. I never heard about this in Canada or California. Will all you Southerners please enlighten me.
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#101329 - 01/02/07 03:39 AM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: jawjaw]
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Registered: 07/06/06
Posts: 1521
Loc: Alabama
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Saundra, I went to my mother's today for collards (took the tiniest bite possible) hog jowl (even tinier bite) peas (ate lots...but not JJ's weight...don't hit me!) corn (yum-o) and of course corn bread! The greens are for money and I'm not sure exactly what the rest are specifically for...good health...prosperity...I think the gist of the practice is to eat humbly in the beginning of the year to allow prosperity to come to you... Hey it could work...so eat some collards and buy a lottery ticket...see what happens!
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#101331 - 01/04/07 12:42 AM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: jawjaw]
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Registered: 11/18/05
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Loc: Daytona Beach, Florida
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JJ, I love greens. I just can't cook 'em right so I got a can (Glory brand - tasted just like in the restaurants but cheaper). Still have some left over. Can't remember eating special food anywhere else in the country for good luck. Hope it works, Jane.
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#101333 - 01/04/07 10:47 PM
Re: New Year good luck food
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Registered: 07/06/06
Posts: 1521
Loc: Alabama
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JJ, that one half of a bite I ate didn't have those results! You go Saundra...you'll have money and greens running out your ears!
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#101338 - 01/05/07 08:37 PM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: Lola]
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Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 753
Loc: USA
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Here's another new year's day good luck recipe, but my husband likes it at anytime of the year.
Ham & Beans
1 pound of navy beans 2 smoked ham hocks 1 quart of chicken broth 1-2 thick slices of onion 1 garlic clove, chopped
In a large bowl of water, soak the beans over night at room temperature. Next morning, drain the beans. Place drained beans in a crock-pot and add the ham hocks, chicken broth, and onion & garlic. Cover and cook on low for about 5 hours, or until beans are tender. If salt is needed, salt beans at this point. Serve with hot buttered corn bread. Deeee-lish!
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#101340 - 01/06/07 12:08 AM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: Lola]
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Registered: 11/18/05
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Loc: Daytona Beach, Florida
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I have eaten pickled herring all my life and love it. We just call it herring. It's in almost every market everywhere. JJ, no fireworks! Funny how some specialy foods are everywhere yet we think it's only our country or our people.
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#101341 - 01/06/07 09:40 AM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: Saundra]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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It's mashed potatoes, JJ. We'd be safe with that one. I eat eels though but only when it's sushi. Oh, I have been corrected by a visiting Brit in my home...it's rollmop. Tomayto, tomahto...I say, I say...a red herring to me.
Hi, Saundra: I've never had herring and have had only pickled anchovies and love them especially in the way they are prepared in Italy and Spain. Pickled herrings are actually sold at street kiosks in Scandinavian countries very much like we would come across hotdog stands in the States. Eaten on the go as well. I'm probably prepped up to try it in the future.
And, as a most peculiar chap, my Brit friend sings:
"You shall have a fishy On a little dishy When the boat comes in."
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#101347 - 01/06/07 03:59 PM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: jawjaw]
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Registered: 09/03/04
Posts: 2538
Loc: North Carolina
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Yes, I do JJ. The one I bought not only contained recipes but information about their culture too. It was written by a Canadian woman who married a Georgian man and then went to live there. My FIL didn't share much with us about Georgian ways, but when the cousins came we learned a lot and the book has filled in a lot of the blanks for me. My MIL is from Italy and so the family mostly followed the Italian traditions. On my side, we're like Heinz 57 varieties! PS: the country is so small that hardly anyone has ever even heard of it. My son has, more than once, had to point it out on a map for his teachers!
Edited by TVC15 (01/06/07 04:00 PM)
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#101348 - 02/12/07 01:25 AM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: TVC15]
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Registered: 01/21/07
Posts: 3675
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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I love pickled herring. Addictive.
As for collards...is that the same family as mustard greens? I eat alot of the fresh veggie stuff (cooked) from the Asian side, gai-lan, you choy, Shanghai bok choy, bok choy, etc. Some of the stuff is rich in all sorts of nutrients...that I never knew until a few years ago.
As for good luck food, we have seaweed soup, Chinese word is homonym on millionaire, hence eating it for prosperity. Yes, I do like seaweed...many types out there. It tastes like a fine linguine. That's all. If you like seafood, you will like sea vegetables, 'coz that's what it is.
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#101349 - 02/12/07 06:02 AM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: orchid]
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Registered: 01/16/07
Posts: 3404
Loc: USA
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I am floored that so few of you like greens. I'm thinking you haven't had them prepared properly. We mix them - mustards, collards and turnips. One of our favorite Christmas (not New Year) fares. For New Year we have green cabbage along with our black eyed peas. We also put our quarter over the doorsill. Mine fell down almost immediately after I placed it on the sill next to last years. It did so because my DH had to look out at some of the fireworks our neighbors were setting off at midnight. I took a piece of tape and taped it back up!
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#101350 - 02/12/07 12:04 PM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: gims]
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Registered: 09/26/04
Posts: 3910
Loc: Alabama
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Never heard the quarter over rthe door deal before. i love anything green and leafy. I remember pulling tender young turnip tops from the garden as a kid and Ummm Ummm they were good.
TVC, where in Canada was she from, any idea?
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#101351 - 02/13/07 07:12 AM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: chickadee]
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The Divine Ms M
Registered: 07/07/03
Posts: 4894
Loc: Orange County, California
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Since I eat mostly vegetarian, I'm up for most greens, except okra which I could never develop a taste for.
Orchid, I call that stuff "whatever choy" because I get whatever is on sale at the local Asian market but then can't remember what it's called when I get home LOL! Doesn't really matter, because everything in our house is stir fried regardless. I work at the farmers' market, and often take home surplus ("Here -- take home SIX bunches of mystery greens!") --- and they have names in a variety of languages which I don't remember either. My husband isn't terribly fond of greens, so when he asks "What is this?" I'll tell him it goes in stir-fry, which he seems to accept. -- even if the farmer told me it's used for Vietnamese soups, because Hubbo won't eat my veggie soups.
Sometimes I cook the greens for myself. Nuke them, and add feta cheese, dried cranberries and walnuts.
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#101352 - 02/13/07 06:36 PM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: meredithbead]
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Registered: 09/26/04
Posts: 3910
Loc: Alabama
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Meredith, I can't do okra but I was introduced to pickled okra and it is really good. I could eat the whole bottle but limit myself to 3 pieces as a side with soup and sandwich.
What do you use to stirfry? Oil or broth?
How long do you nuke the greens? Sounds delicious.
chick
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#101353 - 02/14/07 05:22 AM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: meredithbead]
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Registered: 01/21/07
Posts: 3675
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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Quote:
I work at the farmers' market, and often take home surplus ("Here -- take home SIX bunches of mystery greens!") --- and they have names in a variety of languages which I don't remember either. My husband isn't terribly fond of greens, so when he asks "What is this?" I'll tell him it goes in stir-fry, which he seems to accept. -- even if the farmer told me it's used for Vietnamese soups, because Hubbo won't eat my veggie soups.
Sometimes I cook the greens for myself. Nuke them, and add feta cheese, dried cranberries and walnuts.
Great that he likes them fine also. Very healthy. Well, if you ever get offered bitter melon, just stir fry abit of it , you might want to soften the bitter zing with tofu.. It's high in lypocene.
Or fuzzy green melon is a tamer choice ...for savoury dishes..again stir fry.
True..I've eaten alot of different Asian greens that I don't even know English and Chinese names for 1/2 of what I eat....but I trusted dear momma to nurture us, feed us well.
If I eat too much roasted or baked veggies, I feel my ying-yang balance out of whack. So greens (and fresh fruit) always solve my problems.
There's a great recipe that we make that is a Swiss chard-spinach with feta cheese pie in phyllo crust. YOu ought to try using frozen phyllo sheets from store...just makes wonderful coverings for savory or sweet healthy things!
His daughter is starting to complain when she visits us..another different phyllo dish.
So easy to use phyllo yet with elegant, light results!
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#101354 - 02/14/07 06:21 AM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: orchid]
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The Divine Ms M
Registered: 07/07/03
Posts: 4894
Loc: Orange County, California
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Chick, I was introduced to okra when we lived in Oklahoma for 2 years. I was at a meeting pot-luck for new faculty wives, the talk was recipes, and EVERY recipe was okra-this and okra-that. I'm surprised no one brought okra ice cream or okra cake, because they put it in everything else. I took some recipes and tried them at home, but no matter how I cooked it, it still tasted like ... okra. I think it's an Oklahoma thing, because I've never seen much done with okra anywhere else. And I don't like pickles much, so pickling okra might just be too much of two bad things.
I stir-fry with a little canola oil and sometimes soy sauce. I may/may not add more sauce later. My cooking is an ethnic mishmosh, although my spice palate tends more towards Indian.
How long I nuke something depends on quantity and thickness. Thin leafy greens get only 3 minutes. Harder green veggies maybe 5-10.
Orchid, I got bitter melon once, and whatever I did with it, it was still too bitter for my tastes. Same farmer gave me fuzzy green melon as well, which I salted and stir-fried. I thought it was OK but not great, and Hubbo took one tiny bite and refused to eat it.
I eat one meal a day which is basically veggies and grain or rice. Usually dinner. Lunch typically is a generous amount of fruit(s) with maybe yogurt or nuts.
I've thought about using phyllo but it seems beyond my culinary skills.
When I went away to college, I didn't know the English names for half the foods my mother made. Which was bad, because I kept insisting to my friends and those kind clerks at the grocery store that those WERE English names, because our family always spoke English. Except for food, which had Yiddish names in our house, which I thought were English. DUH!
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#101357 - 02/16/07 04:24 PM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: TVC15]
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Queen of Shoes
Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 6123
Loc: Arizona
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Phyllo is really very easy to use. Just have to keep it moist and covered while working with it.
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#101358 - 02/18/07 09:27 PM
Re: New Year good luck food
[Re: Dianne]
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Registered: 01/10/07
Posts: 431
Loc: Oklahoma, USA
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Meredith, Did you try fried okra? Mmm Mmmm. I could eat my weight it that stuff. It is definately an Okie thang. It grows well here so if someone plants it in their garden they usually have too much. Oklahoma is one of the few states where you can get fried okra on the menu. And as for collard greens. Don't eat them raw. I heard they are poisonous if not cooked. Any one ever eaten poke salat (that's not a typo)? It grows wild here. Laurel
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