One of my favorite meals
I’m not too keen on New Year’s Eve. This one was special, it was a blue moon, we had Tin in our arms – but still the only way I like to celebrate this occasion is sitting on the front porch of the LaLa and casually walking across the street to the bayou to watch my neighbor shoot fireworks.
But New Year’s day is a different story. It’s one of my favorite holidays and in particular the New Year’s day traditional brunch. In keeping with tradition, I made cabbage and hide a dime in it it. The one who gets the dime comes into unexpected money that year. We had black eyed peas for good luck and this year chose a Turkish recipe with pomegranate seeds and walnuts – yum! There was honey on the table for the biscuits to ensure a year of sweetness. Champagne stood at the ready, free flowing, to bank on high spirits to keep the doldrums at bay. Then we had pork in our chaurice sausage to move forward. We included a king cake even though the first one should not a grace a New Orleans table until January 6th, Three Kings Day, but we had guests from out of town.
We put an extra baby in the king cake, a black baby. A couple got the white and black baby and oddly they are in the same spot I have been in before. She wants; he’s afraid. They have their journey ahead of them, our journey has begun.
Happy 2010!
January 2nd, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Well! We had a new year dinner with an international theme, all vegetarian, thanks to my gourmet cook daughter. We kept just the black eyed peas on the menu (no pork or hog jowls) for luck so last night it was African (black-eyed pea fritters with choice of sauces). Wish I could remember where all the other foods originated but there were sweet potatoes, veggie crudites and sauces, creamed broccoli among other dishes, all topped off with a great wine and chocolate almond cake for dessert. Now that I think about it, leaving the pork out was good luck for the pig. Have a great year!
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:25 pm
No kidding! – I had my qualms about the pig for too many reasons – old and new – the Jewish thing, the vegetarian thing, the fact that pigs are smarter than dogs – you name it. One foot forward, I guess, even if it is a cloven hoof.