Happy New Year!

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We’ll be here at home for New Year’s Eve/Day this year. I’ll be making our traditional New Year’s Day Good Luck meal of sausages and Sauerkraut. This year instead of Brats we’re having Aidelle’s Chicken and Apple sausage that I cook in the crockpot with Sauerkraut, onion, garlic, and a few other things to make a sauce. We’ll have that with a salad, we’ll toast with a glass of chilled Prosecco, and I’m making a Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake with a lemon glaze for dessert.

Do you ring in the New Year with a good luck meal? What do you eat on New Year’s Day?

I’d like to take a second to thank you for joining me on this blog journey this year. It’s been wonderful getting to know you and share photos, trips, and experiences with you, and you sharing some of yours with me through your blogs. I am looking forward to seeing where the New Year takes us. I wish you all a very Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year! 🥂🍾🎆

more to come…

40 thoughts on “Happy New Year!”

  2. Hello Deborah,
    Wishing you and all your loved ones a very happy and happy new year.
    Thank you for your kind support of my photography. I always look forward to your work☺️

    Warm wishes,
    Takami

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  6. What a lovely way to welcome the New Year, Deborah! Your home sounds full of warmth, good food, and intention. I love how these traditions carry meaning as well as flavour. Your Southern good-luck meal reads like a beautiful edible blessing that speaks to moving forward, abundance, prosperity, and hope all on one plate. Wishing you a nourishing, joyful start to the year ahead. Happy New Year to you and

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  8. We don’t have a traditional New Year’s Day meal for dinner, but we do always make sure there is a chocolate pecan pie baked and ready to go for dessert. I can only imagine how great that crockpot smell is gonna be for you, Deborah. A very Happy New Year to you and yours!

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  11. Your meal sounds delicious Deborah, I’ll be over! Haha
    We don’t have a “traditional” meal but we try to celebrate with a glass of wine! 🍷
    Happy New Year to you and your family! Cheers!

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  17. This year Mexican chicken stew will be the main dish, but whichever ‘main’ we enjoy, there always are black-eyed peas, greens, and cornbread: for luck, money, and good fortune. I can’t say such traditions ‘work,’ but I can’t see any reason to skip the practice and tempt bad luck, debt, and bad fortune!

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    1. All but the Black-eyed peas sound yummy to me! Mom made them but, I’ve never liked them. We’re in the same boat thinking there’s no need to tempt fate or rock the boat. We have our New Year’s Good Luck Meal every year. Even when we’re traveling over the holidays we find a way to get a sausage and sauerkraut meal on January 1st! 😊

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  18. Happy New Year to you and He Man, Deborah. I hope the new year bring peace and happiness. We have pork shoulder in the crock pot with black-eyed peas for luck. (only a taste) Chardonnay to wash it down and a caramel chocolate gelato for dessert.

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    1. Thank you so much, John! I hope the new year brings you the same and much success with your writing/ books! LOL! My kids are in your boat with Only a Taste but over sauerkraut. Your dessert sounds really good! Happy New Year to you and your family!

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  20. We’ll be at friends and very likely we will have friend Wim’s exquisite salmon salad and of course oliebollen, a Dutch old- en new years treat, comparable with doughnuts but then in the shape of a ball, preferably with raisins and candied citrus peels. 🙂 Happy new year Deborah!

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    1. What’s in Wim’s exquisite Salmon Salad? I love salmon. I’m going to look up your Oliebollen. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it or heard of it. It sounds yummy! Happy New Year, Peter! I wish you a year full of travel, excellent photo ops, health, wealth, and lots of fun!

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  21. Happy New Year! We have a traditional southern good luck meal on New Year’s Day – Pork for moving forward (I fix a ham), Black Eyed Peas for good luck and coins, Collards or other greens for wealth, and cornbread for gold and good fortune.

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