new year cooking

Meal for New year, i'm still thinking ...

@Suggar (3606)

Bulgaria

December 27, 2010 8:24am CST

Hello friends, we will meet the new year with our friends, may be around 6-7 people all will spend the time on one table. Last year we stayed the plans to be done from our friends and that's how they decided to shop in the last moment, when it was hard for us to find meat, it was too late for making salads, it was too late for cooking. That's how we spend around 100$ for different nearly prepared food and i can say that it was not tasty at all. That's why this year i decided to cook by myself, what i can do for our celebration together and i'll try to buy all the products with around 50$ so i'm thinking what to cook. In our meal for sure will have pork chops, potatoes salad, home made bread, cheese pie with lucks written on little lists, i plan beans salad and baked pepper with beans inside, which is one of my favorite foods. How do you plan your New Year meals? Will you be the one, who will cook?

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@sid556 (30959)

• United States

27 Dec 10

Hi Suggar, Well, I'm going to be working this year so I don't even have to worry about it. Whenever we have get togethers we don't leave it on one person to do all the shopping, cooking etc. Everyone who comes brings a homemade dish. We plan ahead and everyone has to call the host and let her know what they will be bringing to avoid duplicates. We get a great variety of delicious foods and the hostess can relax and enjoy the party too. Just a thought.

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

27 Dec 10

That's brilliant, i hope i'll start new tradition between us who are in the friends group for celebrations, the bad moment is that all others are boys without girlfriends, so i can't expect much cooking from them

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@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

28 Dec 10

Sid, one of guys can cook, i'm sure of that. He was working as a bartender and serving guy in coffee stores, so i bet he can cook some without problem, because when we went in his home for his birthday, there were so delicious stuff prepared. I'm sure that a part of all was cooked by his mother, but he got great taste for decoration. He always helps me when they come home and i have to serve food, he always ask if i need help. But let's say it that way, i am with my boyfriend from one year now and it will be that way may be for long in the future, so i want to make traditions from this year for the future. When they have girlfriends, i'll be thankful if all the girls bring something prepared from them on the table, when it's new year, i'll be really happy. For now i want to prepare what i love and i know that all around love the taste. One of my boyfriend's friend said today that last New Year all of us spent a lot of money, so we got leading point for good start - to eat tasty and to spend less money.

@Angelgirl16 (2171)

• United States

27 Dec 10

Hi Suggar, I am a southern girl, so me and my family will have some southern dishes such as chicken, pork roast, greens, homemade cornbread, etc. My mother had this traditions that we still carry on. She would cook a pot of black-eye-peas with a clean shinny dime somewhere in the pot; whoever was lucky enough to receive the dime would have the great luck/blessings for the year (just for fun). I will not eat so much because I am still thinking about all the food we served at Christmas; I do want to get into my clothes when I head back to work on the 3rd.

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@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

27 Dec 10

I love same foods, specially something fried or pizza or some other snacks, i'm a lover for that food, but it's too heavy and my body starts feeling it. Great New Year to you too.

@ANTIQUELADY (36440)

• United States

28 Dec 10

Happy new year to u. Your meal sounds good. The traditional food for new year's here is blak-eyed peas, cabbage, hog's jowl & whatever else u want w/it. I will cook for myself but my kids wouldn't eat any of that if they came,lol.If u don't eat the peas we put some dreied ones in our pocket for good luck.lol.

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

28 Dec 10

I love peas, but not and my boyfriend, so i've never cooked peas before, since we live together. I love it with potatoes and clean pork meat, without fatness.

My boyfriend is like a kid in his eating, so i completely understand what you meant about your kids and how they wouldn't eat none of what you will prepare

@redkathy (3374)

• United States

27 Dec 10

I purchased the food before Christmas every year. Our New Years day meal will be roasted pork with potatoes. It is tradition in our family to have some kind of pork or ham on New Years Day.

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

27 Dec 10

Pork chops will be prepared for sure here.

I want to make a full table with different food, everything possible to be there. We believe it's for lucky start of the new year, for full pockets and full stomachs

@redkathy (3374)

• United States

27 Dec 10

That is a wonderful tradition and makes a lot of sense too! Best of luck to you!

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

27 Dec 10

Thank you Red Kathy. Have a nice celebration, if we don't meet each other somewhere else in the discussions

@bounce58 (17385)

• Canada

29 Dec 10

To make it a little easier for us, me and some neighbor friends just do a pot luck dinner during the holidays. It would be the same for new year's eve. At Christmas eve, we brought chicken wings. So I too am still figuring out what to bring this time. Preferably, something with meat too. I just find that a lot of people bring desserts, so I want to bring a meat dish to make it more filling.

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

30 Dec 10

Thanks for sharing Bounce, today it's 30th December here and i still don't know how many people will be at home. People, who will come, haven't reached even minimum amount for my shopping, so it looks like i'll wait them to bring something.

@H3idimich3ll3 (150)

• United States

28 Dec 10

this is the first year i ever cooked for the holidays since ive been hiding my cooking skills from my family ( so i wont have to cook everyday).. but ive decided for new years since its also my fathers birthday i will make a green bean casserole with chicken and mushrooms baked inside ^_^ ..

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

28 Dec 10

I really love mushrooms more than everything

Don't hide your skills hun, it's helpful sometimes if you help your mother

Right now when i live our of home, where my parents live and i do everything at home by myself i saw that little help from someone wouldn't be bad at all

@lingli_78 (12822)

• Australia

28 Dec 10

it is always better to cook our meals by ourselves rather than buying them from outside... it is cheaper and healthier as well... and the most important thing is, we can cook them to suit our taste... as for my new year's meal, i haven't really decided on them yet... i still have a few days to think about them... most probably they will just a simple stir-fry chinese dishes... that's all... take care and have a nice day...

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

28 Dec 10

Thank you Lingli, i love Chinese food and if you are willing to share some recipe with me on personal messages, i'll be thankful.

@ladym33 (10979)

• United States

27 Dec 10

Actually not one of our friends or family has spoken up about New Years Eve this year. We might end up just staying home alone. We usually get together with some friends and everyone brings some sort of appetizer to share. That is usually good enough and plenty of food for everyone and instead of sitting down to a meal we just kind of nibble all night long. Last year I made BBQ chicken wings. A few times I have made meatballs, but we will have to wait and see about this year if we even end up being with anyone.

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@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

27 Dec 10

It's the same right here. Last year we spent with friends of my boyfriend in their apartment - three guys, best friends of my loved one. Guys are not really good in plans, this is what i understood last year

That's why i decided to make the difference, because these friends has eat cooked food from me and they like it. Just today i asked my boyfriend what shall we do? We don't have money to buy every kind of food, so i want everything to be calculated in a right way. If i can't buy everything for cooking, we can make plan who will bring something ready or are we going to give some money each of us to the one person who will shop or cook. Guys always forget it, we got only 4 days for preparing for the celebration and i plan on 30th or 31th to cook whole day long, so it won't be easy.

• India

27 Dec 10

Here is an amaing dish that you can cook for the new year....www.hubpages.com/hub/Amazing-Chicken-Leg-Barbecue-Recipe Hope you love it.

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

27 Dec 10

I will check the link now, thanks for the idea.

Elizabeth White

@Masihi (4413)

• Canada

27 Dec 10

We will have another Turkey Dinner on New Years Day, and I'm all turkeyed-out ha ha Now, we'll also make bbq-turkey pizza (homemade) from the leftovers, made the same way you'd find a bbq chicken pizza :-) This year we were able to pick lots of cranberries so we'll be having my hand-picked cranberries a lot this holiday season :-)

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

27 Dec 10

Oh, making pizza for New Year, i've never done pizza at home, but i can try

Thanks

@sweetmary86 (822)

• Philippines

27 Dec 10

my menu consist of chopsuey, sweet n sour, macaroni salad, spag, pig and blueberry cream...;) im quite excited cuz i would be cookin some stuff and would eat a lot..voracious mode.lol

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

27 Dec 10

Thanks for sharing friend. I just reminded myself that i have nothing for desert in my plans, so may be a cream caramel would be good.

@Freegifts25 (125)

• United States

28 Dec 10

You can buy Frozen Chicken nuggets, chips for starter. For full meas keep all stuff for burgers such as bread, salads, cheese, Sauces and beef. Rice is easy to cook so keep rice with Soup and in dessert you can have Cake, pie or Mango moose. Happy Celebration!

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

28 Dec 10

Freegifts, thank you for the idea for the mango pie, i have to check where i can buy it here, it's not a natural fruit around. Sandwiches party sounds nice to me and easy for doing.

Nice celebration to you too and nice day.

@asliah (11137)

• Philippines

27 Dec 10

hi, yes, we do also of my family, we are still thinking of what food do we prepare for new year, we will cook some dishes, except chicken, i dont know why but my mother told us to prepare food except chicken.

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

27 Dec 10

If you eat it soon, for Christmas or so, may be she doesn't want you to repeat the meal?

@Toadsticker (246)

• United States

28 Dec 10

In our area (Swiss heritage) The meal for new years day is sauerkraut and sausage. I like it on top of mashed potatoes.

@Suggar (3606)

• Bulgaria

28 Dec 10

I have sausages, potatoes too, let me think about something more