Recipe for sauerkraut and pork for NEW YEARS.
 

This is the best I have eaten...

Saute' one cut up onion,one potato and one apple in one stick of butter until tender (don't FRY, just slowly cook until transparency of onion) in a dutch oven with a tight fitting lid.

Add one package of sauerkraut drained and one pork tenderloin.

Cover with lid and cook low and slow (300 degrees) in oven for four hours or until pork is fork tender.

Serve with mashed potatoes.

Yum.

My German ancestors always ate sauerkraut on New Years day for luck.

What do you eat?

White Castles. :shocked:

Bill

We eat lentil soup for good health, roast pork for happiness, collard greens for wealth, and blackeyed peas for health. Don't want to take any chances with that new year!

What's for dessert????

Italians eat sausage and pepper sandwiches on delicious Italian bread. My family still eats that every New Years Eve... ummmm, I'm getting hungry

My German family always ate ham, sweet potatoes and black eyed peas. The black eyed peas were for good luck in the coming year.

I have never eaten a black eyed pea.

How do you fix them?

I don't want to miss out on an opportunity.

Black-eyed peas
 

Growing up in the south it was black-eyed peas and cornbread for prosperity in the coming year.

For many years, the wife used to make them in a slow cooker with ham hocks but she does not like back-eyed peas. I can only eat so many bowls of black-eyed peas so now they come in a can from Publix.

I still eat them every New Years eve.

Still good luck!!

If you have never eaten a black-eyed pea, I would suggest you buy a can at your local grocery store and try them. To some, they are an acquired taste. To some, they are not good. To the rest of us, you don't know what you are missing!!

For cooking, just look at the bag. You soak them for a while and then you put them in a pot with some cut up onions and a couple of ham hocks or some rough cut ham and let them simmer per the instructions. The aroma is wonderful!! When done, you spoon them into bowls and enjoy!!

They go well with southern fried chicken and mashed potatoes or rice. Cornbread on the side. Pecan pie for dessert.

Growing up in Virginia this is what we ate on New Year's Day (not New Year's Eve):
some kine of pork for health and strength (huh?)
black-eyed peas for good luck
collard greens for prosperity (greenbacks, you know?)
and cornbread or corn muffins
Happy New Year to all TOTVers

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This might sound dumb from an older women Gracie but what is a dutch oven? My son asked me last week because he was making something (I can't remember what), so I looked it up on the internet and it just showed and old cast iron pot over a fire pit.

Gracie, that sounds wonderful! One more question, can you use a slow cooker? We usually have a buffet at my sisters-in-laws house and everybody brings something. It's usually dominated with Portuguese food like Chourico and potatoes, littlenecks and pork with rice, shrimp mozambique, grilled chicken, and various potato and pasta salads

A dutch oven is a pot with a lid on it. A deep pot. Mine is made of Stainless steel and I use it for soups and for slow roasting meats. I use it almost every day for something.

LarryB...I think a slow cooker would be perfect, but since the temp is probably lower than 300, I think I would cook it longer, after having cooked the cut up potato, apple and onion on top of the stove first. These three things make the sauerkraut not so bitter and give a little sweetness to the dish.

YUM.

Our Central Pa tradition is Sauerkraut and pork over mashed potatoes and Hotdogs w kraut. I have often cooked it in the crock pot but I like to cook it in the oven all day so the kraut darkens up.

Gracie! I knew I could count on you!!! Being raised Penna Dutch, we always ate pork on NY day for good luck. A pig roots forward and a chicken scratches back, so you want to eat something that roots forward for luck in the New Year. We'll be having pork and saurerkraut with mashed potatoes. Blessings to everyone in 2011.

Collard Greens, Pork Roast and Hoppin Johns ( Black eyed peas and rice) of course corn bread.

Where in Central PA? I am originally from Union County then Dauphin, then 'Berks and then Schulykill County.

When I was about 10 my dad took the whole family, four sons, wife and grandparents, all dressed up for Thanksgiving dinner to White Castle.


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Gracie,

You can buy them in most larger grocery stores. They come dry (requires a day of soaking before cooking), frozen or canned. My parents would grow them in their garden. I usually go with the frozen and add ham (or bacon), chopped onion, salt, pepper and a little garlic powder to taste and maybe a slice of jalapeno or so (if you like spicy). The key is to cook them long and slow so they become tender and absorb the ham, onion and spice flavors. You can also add canned sliced tomatoes if you like them.

How fun! I would like your dad!!

A very special treat when I was a little girl was for my aunt to take me and my cousins to the only one I knew at that time which was in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus. I think, but I could be wrong, that is where White Castle started.

Columbus, Ohio is a huge birthing place for food chains and a remarkable mecca for good food.

Thanks for the info, the recipe sounds great.:icon_hungry:

We always frequented that location when I was "much younger" as well - used to be the only one out on the east side of town. It was one of the original designs - was there for quite a number of years. Got razed years ago, unfortunately. The price of progress in Bexley, I reckon!

And I always used to think White Castle started in Columbus as well!! Turns out otherwise - first store was in KS, I believe. But the HQ has been in Columbus for so long (since the '30s) that the misconception the company started there is fairly prevalent.

Bill

I'm from Tamaqua! Lived there until I was 18yo.

Forgot to add, just before you are ready to eat we make dumplings on top the Sauerkraut. Gettin hungry.

Dumplings are good. I will make some too. Go glad you reminded me!!

I also add 1 tablespoon of brown sugar and stir it in just before I serve.

I dunno why. My ancestors were from near the Austrian border.

I know some people here put a little brown sugar in, takes away some of the sourness of the kraut. We like it sour so I never put it in. Some even rinse it before cooking it to take out some of the salt. If you are on a low sodium diet this is smart. But I never said I was smart, lol. So far my taste tests today tell me your recipe is going to be great even w/o the brown sugar. Thanks Gracie.

Thank you, GracieGirl!
 

I made the pork and 'kraut for dinner and it was, indeed, fork tender! We both enjoyed it very much and I'll definitely make it again. I hadn't read your latest post about the Tbsp of brown sugar, so next time I'll add it. Your recipe is a keeper, but I knew it was the minute I read it and knew it was from you. Blessings to you and your family in 2011!

Black Eyed Peas
 

We enjoyed our black eyed peas yesterday, very tasty.
1 can black eyed peas
1 onion diced
1 stalk celery diced
1 garlic clove diced
4 slices bacon
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup cooked brown rice

Saute bacon until crisp, remove and drain all but 1 tbl grease, then saute onion, celery and garlic in grease. Add black eyed peas and crumble bacon plus the chicken stock. Simmer for a few minutes then add the rice and cook for a few minuets to warm and combine. Serve and have good luck. John

That sounds yummy. I have copied it and stuck it in my Joy of Cooking book.
I am making Mock Turtle Soup today to get rid of vegetables in fridge.

Good Health and good fortune to you all
 

My mom always made New England Boiled Dinner.... cause you have to have the cabbage. She also would boil a dime for each person in the household in the food; and place the dimes... resting on the moulding above an entry door... taped down, of course, and there they would stay the whole year for luck.

Yesterday we were lucky enough to spend the day with my dad and some of his friends. They made black eyed peas that actually were good (I am usually not a fan) but, like some of the other recipes here, it had both bacon and ham in it for taste and for luck My step-mom made sauer kraut balls for luck and those were good too. Don't ya wonder how some of these traditions started.

Gracie's recipe sounds good so I want to try it.

Gracie,
This is very close and maybe easier, 1 pork loin, 1 can of frozen concentrated apple juice and sauerkraut. Bake in a covered dish in the oven as long as you want never touch it its very tasty also use the oven and do a baked potatoe.
jdarby2
Paul

Well I like that idea and will try it next time!! Thank you very much!:MOJE_whot:

German Food
 

I cook german for 40 years and I still love it. I even decided to deliver german food, so just check out my brandnew homepage:
www.ClaudiasMettmann.com :mmmm:

This might be even easier ! Put in a oven bakeable dish one pork loin and cover with drained sauerkraut and add one large frozen container of frozen apple juice and bake as long as you want do not touch it. It is GREAT !!! and easy.