New Years Lucky Food

 Hi Everyone!

Do you make lucky new years food?

My daughter got me started on it many years ago. It seems to be a southern thing. Because I never heard of it here in the Pacific Northwest. Anyway it goes like this. Pork, it can be any kind of pork, greens, black eye'd peas and or lentils. I make beans with both in the pot. Cornbread and ambrosia salad.

Pork, ham, bacon, ham hock. Pigs root forward representing progress in life.

oops forgot to take a photo of the ham hock here is one from the internet.

 

The meat simply falls off the bone into the beans. Best flavor ever. These are my beans and hock. 

I made fried cabbage for my greens. Although store bough cabbage isn't as good or as green as my cabbage from the garden. 😀 It still works.

I used cut up bacon with the cabbage.  

 Greens can be spinach, cabbage, collards or kale. They bring money, wealth and financial prosperity. 

  

 I made a pot of 15 bean soup and added the black eye'd peas. The 15 includes lentils so I didn't have to add those.  I couldn't get a photo of the inside due to the steam.

The peas and lentils represent coin and paper money and wealth.

The ambrosia salad  "Ambrosia" means "immortal" or "food/nectar of the gods" in Greek, referring to the mythical food of the gods that granted immortality. I don't want immortality but it serves as longevity and health.

Now for the corn bread.

I used to make them from scratch but I found a small packet of corn bread mix at Winco that serves two muffins. Just right for us. And it is pretty kidney friendly using aquafaba instead of an egg. These packs are well under a buck at winco.

 

  I don't by large muffin pan paper cups. I would rather have parchment paper on hand. Cut a piece of P.P. then crumble it up. 

Open it up and it fits perfectly in the muffin pan. Ever tried putting parchment in a pan or a cookie sheet just out of the roller. Try crumbling it first. It much easier to fit.  

I do trim the edges. Leave a little piece on either side to easily lift the muffins out. 

Are these beauties or what? 😁

Well that was our good luck dinner for the new year. Do you have any food or other traditions you do? Let me know in the comments.

I'm wearing glare free glasses for my eye and I didn't realize some of the photos are blurry. Sorry but I think you get the idea.

Have a great weekend.

Nicole