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.