Growing up NYD dinner was always pork and sauerkraut, braised in the oven for hours. (Hot dogs were added as a sop to the younger kids who liked neither pork nor kraut.) Dad insisted, said it made you prosperous. I don't know why they never gave it up since it never worked... But it's how I learned to like kraut on a hot dog.
Around here the tradition is blackeyed peas with hog jowl. Kinda threw me for a loop the first time I saw hog jowl in the market, and here I'd always thought it was only something made up so that Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies could cook something disgusting. Anyway, we don't have a tradition for NYD dinner; Thanksgiving and Christmas were enough!
Wondering what personal traditions were out there.
Around here the tradition is blackeyed peas with hog jowl. Kinda threw me for a loop the first time I saw hog jowl in the market, and here I'd always thought it was only something made up so that Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies could cook something disgusting. Anyway, we don't have a tradition for NYD dinner; Thanksgiving and Christmas were enough!
Wondering what personal traditions were out there.