Happy New Year’s Eve!

We are getting ready to celebrate the New Year with our traditional big family meal on New Year’s Day. I like to cook quite a few foods that are said to bring good luck every year.  I’m sharing those recipes today along with a collection of other recipes and foods to bring you luck, prosperity, and happiness in the New Year! 

A few lucky foods included in this recipe roundup: 

Cornbread symbolizes gold and money and represent wealth and prosperity in your life .

Black-eyed peas resemble coins and they are said to bring prosperity and wealth along with good luck.

Chinese noodles represent long life. 

Pomegranates symbolizes life and abundance and are said to bring fertility, health, and prosperity.

Oranges represent health according to Chinese tradition. 

Greens like cabbage and collards represent wealth and money.

Other lucky foods? Pork, red grapes, and lentils!

1. New Year’s Southern Fried Cabbage – For the Love of Food

2. Lemon Basil Grilled Pork Chops – Bitz n Giggles

3. Roasted Grape, Goat Cheese + Honey Stuffed Sweet Potatoes – How Sweet Eats

4. Roasted Sheet Pan Cabbage and Carrots – For the Love of Food

5. Chili Pot Pies with Cornbread Crust – Sweet Peas and Saffron

6. Honey & Ginger Beer Cornbread Muffins – For the Love of Food

7. Instant Pot Stuffed Cabbage Casserole – The Typical Mom

8. Crockpot Black Eyed Peas – Two Pink Peonies

9. Mama’s Hoppin John – For the Love of Food

10. Black Eyed Peas Salad – Veggie Inspired

11. Crazy Good Quick Garlic Noodles – Little Spice Jar

12. Hot Water Cornbread  – 4 Son R Us

13. Lucky New Year’s Collard Greens – For the Love of Food

14. Lucky Lentil Soup – Order ISDA

15. Apple Cider Brined Pork Loin – Tao of Spice

16. Broccoli Cornbread – For the Love of Food

17. Sparkling Pomegranate Cider Punch – How Sweet Eats

18. Sweet Corn Spoonbread Casserole – For the Love of Food

19. New Year’s Good Luck Dip with Collard Greens – Ezra Pound Cake

20. Ham Hocks and Black Eyed Peas a Southern New Year’s Tradition – That Recipe

21. Blueberry Honey Cornbread – For the Love of Food

22. Dump And Start Instant Pot Collard Greens – Recipes from a Pantry

23. Black Eyed Peas with Smoky Collards and Cheesy Grits – Vanilla and Bean

24. Lucky Orange New Year’s Cake – Seasonal Cook Book

25. Roasted Garlic Cabbage Steaks – For the Love of Food

26. Mexican Jalapeno and Cheese Skillet Cornbread – My Kitchen Serenity

27. Pork and Cabbage Noodles – For the Love of Food

28. Vasilopita (Greek New Year’s Bread) – Bowl of Delicious

29. Black Eyed Pea Taco Dip – Dancing Through the Rain

30. Oven Roasted Pork Loin with Cabbage and Potatoes – Upstate Ramblings

31. Gorgonzola Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Blueberry Pomegranate Sauce – For the Love of Food

32. Black Eyed Pea Cornbread Casserole – Plain Chicken

33. Spicy Pork Dan Dan Noodles – For the Love of Food

34.  Roasted Pork and Sauerkraut – Savor the Best

35. Crock-Pot Honey Garlic Pork Freezer Meal – For the Love of Food

36. Roast Pork Loin With Rosemary Brown Sugar Sauerkraut – 4 Sons R Us

37. Black-Eyed Peas And Potato Stew – My Cooking Journey

38. Blue Cheese and Apple Pork Chops – For the Love of Food

39. Spinach Pomegranate Salad – Simply Home Cooked

40. Cheesy Black Eyed Pea Dip – For the Love of Food

41. Almond Vassilopita Cake – Kopiaste

42. Slow Cooker Cabbage – Clean Eating Kitchen

43. Lucky Pork & Black Eyed Peas Nachos – A Worthey Read

44. Pecan Grape Salad – For the Love of Food

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 We were still staying in Florida for the holidays, so for New Year’s Eve this year Ava and I decided on a low key night with my parents. Dinner out, early fireworks, then bed for Ava and champagne and a movie for my parents and I. When midnight rolled around, my Mom and I were the only ones still awake to countdown to the New Year. Way different from a few years ago! Man, my 30s really are different than my 20s!

~ The only thing missing was my kiss at midnight from Ashton! ~

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Lucky New Year's Collard Greens

Ingredients

• 1 large bag of chopped collard greens
• 1 onion chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic diced or crushed
• 1 ham bone or 2 ham hocks
• 2 tbsp butter
• 32 box of vegetable broth
• 1 cup water
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2-3 tbsp white vinegar
• salt/pepper to taste

Instructions

• Fill a sink or large bowl with water and rinse and soak collard greens well. Drain.
• Heat a large pot over medium heat and add butter.
• Once butter is melted add onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
• Add garlic cloves and cook, stirring for another minute.
• Add remaining ingredients, including collards to the pot and bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to low and cook for 2 hours.
• Serve warm with a side of Hoppin' John and rice and biscuits or cornbread!

Notes

Recipe courtesy of my Uncle Mike.

 

 

 

 

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New Year’s Eve last year was a blast, the best part being I got to spend it with my honey, Ashton.

Mama’s Hoppin’ John New Years recipe:

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Mama's Hoppin' John in the Crock-Pot

Ingredients

• 2 32 oz containers vegetable broth
• 16 oz bag dried black eyed peas
• 1 large Valida onion diced
• salt pork or large ham hock
• 2 red bell peppers diced
• 1/2 cup parsley finely chopped
• 1 green pepper diced
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire
• 1 1/2 tbsp Cajun seasoning Mama likes Emeril's Cajun Essence
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 12 oz can whole stewed tomatoes Mama likes Cento brand, Italian style
• 1 large tomato, for topping diced
• salt/pepper to taste
• 3 green onions, for topping diced
• white rice, for serving

Instructions

• Rinse beans and pick through, then soak in water overnight.
• Rinse beans in the morning and transfer to a crock-pot.
• Cover beans with the broth.
• Add diced bell peppers, onion (reserve 1/2 cup onion for topping), Worcestershire, parsley, ham hock, and stewed tomatoes with juice. Mix together and break tomatoes apart into smaller pieces. Add all seasonings, stir, cover, and cook in the crock-pot on high for 3-4 hours or low 4-6 hours.
• Serve with white rice and cornbread and top with diced tomatoes and green onion.

Notes

Since I'm not a big raw tomato fan, I like to substitute green onions on top of mine!

Thanks for sharing your recipe Mama!

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