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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…
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Happy New Year 🎉
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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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Five hours more for us and seven for you till 2026 comes in. May it treat us all well.
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Wishing you and your family all the best in the new year, Deborah. I’ve enjoyed the photos and information you’ve shared this year.
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Wishing you and your loved ones a healthy and happy 2026. We don’t have a special meal, but yours sounds absolutely delicious right up to the dessert. Enjoy!
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Thank you, Judy! I wish you and your family and garden a wonder 2026! just finished putting the cakes in the oven and cleaning up. The batter itself is so, so good! 😁
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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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Thank you so much, Rebecca! I wish you and yours the very same! P,S. I’ve got your latest podcast queued up for listening in while out for a walk. 😊
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Thank you!!! Happy New Year!
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Your menu sounds great! We are staying home too and watching some fireworks and festivities on TV. Happy New Year!
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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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Cheers to you too!
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Thank you! Cheers, and Happy New Year to you too!
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Thanks for this warm new year greeting, Deborah–wishing you a delightful new year and many thanks for a year of your inspiring photos and adventures.
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Thank you so much, Jet! Happy New Year to you and Athena as well. I wish you lots of fun adventures in the new year!
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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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That sound like a good way to celebrate too! Happy New Year to you and your family, Jill!
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Happy New Year to you and your family. Wishing you lots of great adventures and new discoveries. (Suzanne)
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Happy New Year to you and Pierre!! I wish you lots of fun adventures and new discoveries as well!
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Have a safe and happy NYE, all the best in 2026!!
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Thank you so much, John! Happy New Year and all the best in 2026 for you too!
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Thank you Deborah.
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A very Happy New Year to you and your family, Deborah! I look forward to more of your fine photography in the year ahead.
Beef Bourguignon on the menu here tonight 😊
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Yum! That sounds delicious! Happy New Year, Belinda! I am looking forward to seeing your images next year as well! You find and see some amazing animals, birds, and scenery. 😊
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Thank you, Deborah 😊
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You’re welcome!
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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year, Diana!
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Happy New Year!
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Thank you! Happy New Year, Suzette!!
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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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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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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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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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Happy New Year to you too. No special meal, but a 50+ years tradition of celebrating with two other couples.
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Thank you, David! Your time spent ringing in the New Year with friends sounds like a great tradition! Happy New Year to you and yours!
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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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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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In Wim’s salmon salad, Deborah, is boiled and mashed potatoes, pearl onions, pickles, and canned salmon, all glued together with mayonaise. Wim says: don’t be a Scrooge when it comes to salmon and mayonaise. (And I agree). On top of this mixed mass sits boiled eggs in parts, tomatoes in parts, more pickles, another layer of canned salmon and some more mayonaise. It’s not the most sophisticated dish, and really not for those trying to lose weight, but we all love it, especially with some fresh baked french baguette right out of the oven. 🙂
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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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You’re having the traditional Southern Good Luck Meal! I need to add cornbread to mine. I love a good cornbread with a good smear of honey butter. Happy New Year, Beth!
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