Happy New Year to you too Logan Hogan! The blackeyed peas are for luck...so ya' didn't forget anything that I know of.

It's ham, blackeyed peas, baked sweet potatoes, a fresh spinach salad 'n suger free (ugh!) chocolate pie for us.

Suzi

Isn't that blackeyed peas and ham hocks a southern thing??? I never heard of it growing up(N.Y. state) It wasn't until one of my older sisters married that i heard of it.Same with sweet potato pie,hadn't heard of that til i married dh.Of course this was all many moons ago.

Anyway Happy,Healthy and prosperous 2006 to all of you and your families.
Kathi

I think the black-eyed peas & ham hocks is a southern thing. Mother never stuck to ham hocks... just as long as it was pork. I eat cabbage for my "green". She wasn't as hung up on the menu as what you did all day. I never made it through a New Year's day without hearing "Don't you know you'll be doing THAT the whole year?"

Happy New Year to one and all. I wish for us all many happy hours of sewing in 2006.

May your bobbin never run out at the last 2" and may the sale table always be full ;-)

AJ

PS Scottish traditions - my Dad always insisted on steak pie with puff pastry to be eaten just after the bells - since we children were in bed and my mother quite rightly refused such a thing at that hour, he generally ate it by himself!

There is also the shortbread (butter cookies), whisky, black bun (a thin shell of pastry wrapped around a very dense filling of currants and spices) and you are supposed to take a lump of coal with you when you 'first foot', that is, be the first visitor across someone's door.

It was neat to read all of the different traditions. IAnd I like AJ's wish about the bobbins and the sale table!
Susan

In the deep South the traditional New Year's meal is Black Eyed Peas, Hog Jowl, Collards or Turnip Greens and corn bread, usually with baked sweet potatoes and of course the desert is left over Christmas cake and pies. My mother always made 4 or 5 cakes for Christmas. I had this during my growing up years and have continued it with my family (except for all the cakes) who are all grown now. However, they only eat the traditional meal if they visit me. They don't cook much - can you imagine.

Happy sewing in the new year.

Here I am, a Floridian for the past 6 years and never heard of that tradition...but what does a transplanted Minnesotan know except for lutefisk and lefse? (But I won't eat that nasty lutefisk)

Mary