I've always just done the black eye peas for luck thing - and will be doing it this evening of course. We're also having spinach, a tradition from my partner's family, which I'm thinking is probably - like the collards - for money.

Really looking forward to my wonderfully Southern New Year's Day dinner!!!!!

I was talking real sweet tea.........my Mother made sweet tea in a special pot.........it was only for tea and never ever did soap and water touch that pot. She put at least 6 tea bags in that pot (about a half gallon of water), brought it to a good boil, turned the heat off and dumped in at least a cup of sugar and stirred. Then you get a glass, fill with ice and pour that hot sweet tea in the glass and enjoy!

Everybody I know in NM makes sweet tea that way. You can actually buy a gallon jug of sweet tea in the grocery store in my hometown. It don't taste bad.........and will do in a pinch.

I just got back from a road trip (in my new to me car) to NM. I stopped at some truck stop in AZ and ordered iced tea and the waitress asked if I wanted sweet or regular. I said sweet of course and it was pretty good..........lots better than trying to put sugar in tea at the table.......

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as to special food on new year's day........not in my family.....new year's day is when you take down the xmas tree and all the lights & decorations outside and stored them for next year........Mother usually made soup that day (beef soup.....chunks of stew meat, taters and spaghetti noodles....brown the meat in the soup pot, fill with beef stock, add taters, noodles and simmer for about an hour).......oh yeah and football on the tv........

Yup, my traditions for New Years are similar to everyone's thus far.

Black eyed peas, collards or turnips with ham... Oh, and I made homemade cornbread & bruschetta to swap with leftovers. Dessert was brownies--so, needless to say, afterward I wanted to take a nap [I call it "food drunk"] :linus:

Hope ya'lls New Year is off to a blissful start!

I had greens and delicious peas at a local Men's bar yesterday. Every year I am invited to go with my bestie/my gay.

Hey Shark,

I live in Orlando and it is going to be in the low 30's tonight...It is colder than hell right now.

Keep warm!

Zimmy

Who sent this Artic weather to us in the South? It is cold in my apartment right now...

I love how we southerners have short term memory... it's gets pretty danged cold here in VA.. but we forget that every year! Maybe the humidity in the summer knocks out a few cells!

This weekend christie and I went looking for a new LR suite. We have a great small but upper end furniture store in town. They do not have on hand the suite we want to purchase, but as it turns out the owner has it in her house.
At her insistence, she puts a "gone to lunch" sign in the door, we pile into her car and off we go to her house.
We purchased the set and an awesome distressed leather recliner at cost ( this is even sans shipping.. I have no idea how she makes a profit) and she came by our house later to see it. The house, that is. We had previously purchased a great loveseat for our upstairs den.
During our adventure with her we learned that her daughters Girl Scout troop does monthly backpacks of single serving foods for local kids. We stopped by the grocers and picked up 48 ct of about eight different items to donate. I will be trying to see about volunteering to help them out.

This is a small part of what I love about this backwards, hillbilly, lovely little town.

Yeah I hear ya! My company closed at 6pm today for the weather and it isn't even raining here yet! They NEVER close completely for anything. But they had a learning experience with Hugo, so if it looks for real now they shut us down.

I am sure that Wally World sold out of shovels and ice melt yesterday. The dogs sure loved it this morning!

What part of the South do you live in?