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New Year's Day Customs


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There are surely all over the world the most different customs on New Year's Eve respectively on New Year's Day. 

In Spain, I have learned, when the church clock strikes midnight, 1 grape is eaten at each chime. That's 12, 1 for each of the coming months. In other countries leaf spinach or white cabbage is eaten. 

In Germany carp is widely used as New Year's meal. New Year's carp is also said to bring wealth, namely when the head of the household puts one of the scales under his plate and keeps it in his wallet after the meal.

IMG_20191230_144742.thumb.jpg.cf969dd72718c8e139f37930b40574eb.jpgIn Italy and Germany the lentil stew for New Year is very popular. That way I satisfy my German and Italian genes. The lentils symbolize small coins because they look similar to these. The consumption of lentil stew is also said to bring prosperity. According to legend, the more lentils you eat, the more wealth grows. 

There are many different recipes for lentil stew. Most include quite a lot of pork as bacon, pork belly... 😣 and at the end, wiener sausage, bockwurst or black pudding for garnish. 

I cook my lentil stew completely differently. It's much lighter and, if you like, you can do without meat. 😊

I don't have a real recipe for that. Unlike baking, I cook by intuition. First, I cooked (in lightly salted water) a chicken that had a happy life and separated the meat from the bones. Then I reduced the cooking water with the bones a little bit because I need the chicken stock later. About 30 percent of the chicken is used for the stew, the other part is for a chicken salad. 😁

For the stew I first precooked the lentils (500g dried) separately. From one fifth of it I make a lentil salad. 

In my 10 litre cooking pot I first fried diced carrots (3 relatively large ones) and celeriac (about a handful of cubes) in a good sunflower oil and glazed them with a little honey. Then I added small diced onions (1 big onion) until they were glassy. A little sediment should have formed. If so, I deglaze with a good dry white wine (Riesling). 3-4 finely chopped garlic cloves were now added. 

Now a large kohlrabi cut into strips and diced potatoes (about 1kg) were added. I filled up with white wine and chicken stock until everything was covered with liquid. I let the whole thing simmer until potatoes, carrots and kohlrabi were done. It should still be al dente. 

Now it was time to add leeks (3 large, cut into pieces). Of course I filled up again with white wine and chicken stock. 😄 There is almost 1 liter of white wine in the stew. 😉

Leek does not take long to be cooked. As soon as it was cooked, I added the chicken meat and the pre-cooked lentils. I have spiced with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper (be careful with the cayenne pepper), mace. I achieved the balance between sweet and sour by adding cider vinegar, white wine vinegar, lemon juice and honey. In addition I added some chilli filaments. 

I will serve the lentil stew with a few croutons and finely chopped parsley. I will serve the same Riesling with it. 

As you can see, my big pot is full and would be enough for at least 10 people. 😂

The good thing about this dish is that it tastes even better after 1-2 days in the refrigerator. Only the parsley and croutons should always be added fresh. The leftover can be frozen quite well. 

 

My Celeriac was very large. It was plenty of 1 kg. But I only needed a handful. With the leftover, I made a delicious celery salad. Cut into thin pieces, I cooked the celery root in a broth of onions, garlic, salt, pepper, white wine vinegar and honey. Part of it I filled hot into sterilized glasses. 

The salad not only tastes good, it also fills the pen with ink. :tiny-smileys-yesemoticons-023:

 

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There is almost 1 liter of white wine in the stew.

Mmm that's why it tastes so good.  

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As you can see, my big pot is full and would be enough for at least 10 people. 😂

Yo, eat it all!  Otherwise you're never gonna be rich

 

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Kawika

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The soup sounds delicious... I'll try it soon. The New Year's traditions that I grew up with that I still follow are...

  • Put silver coins in the window sill on 31 December and bring them in on 1 January to insure a year of wealth and abundance.
  • Wear red undergarments to insure a year filled with love and sex
  • If you want a year of travel and adventure run around the block at midnight with a suitcase (I don't do this anymore I travel enough)
  • The first footer is the first person to enter your house after midnight and should be a man and he should bring a piece of coal to keep the house warm, a loaf of bread so that there is always food in the pantry and a coin so that there will be money in your purse all year... and should enter by knocking  at the front door and leave through the back door (I know... but we have been doing this in my family for as long as I can remember)
  • No money should be spent on New Year's Day

I'm only superstitious about theatre superstitions and New Year's... I'm pretty level headed if I'm not performing in a theatre or it's 31, December.

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derekjames57

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Well, for most of my working life, January 2 tended to be a work day...so I often opted for a quiet time after Christmas. We still do in our household. I know, no party animals hereXXX As a child I can still recall watching the ball drop on our old b&w TV in Times Square and Guy Lombardo and his orchestra from the Waldorf Astoria...it felt so strange to be up so late when I was little:-)

The stew looks wonderful, love the "cooking by intuition" approach myself!! Bravo!! Happy New Year! DJXXX

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ColtMann

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1) don't call me Shirley 😛

2) what about black-eyed peas? I flatter myself that I am a good cook - I soak a pound of black-eyed peas, add a package of ham, some freeze-dried onion, and my secret ingredient, summer savory. everybody raves. hippy new year to y'all. oh, the more black-eyed peas you eat, the more good luck you will enjoy in the new year.

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Tomster

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On 12/30/2019 at 11:50 PM, JoelR said:

Mmm that's why it tastes so good.  

It's probably not the wine, but the love I cook with. 😘 

On 12/30/2019 at 11:50 PM, JoelR said:

Yo, eat it all!  Otherwise you're never gonna be rich

Each of us ate as much as possible. Still, there's plenty left. But you couldn't enjoy the prosperity if you exploded the day after. 😅

 

On 12/30/2019 at 11:56 PM, stuck said:

Looks absolutely delicious

Thank you 😘

 

On 12/30/2019 at 11:58 PM, Kawika said:

Wear red undergarments to insure a year filled with love and sex

This is a tradition that I also know from Italy and Southern France. The custom in these countries promises that those who celebrate the night into the New Year with red underwear will experience happiness, success and above all love. Health and passion are also promised.

However, one restriction remains: you must not have bought the underwear yourself, but it must have been a gift. On New Year's Eve they will be worn for the very first time. In addition, the red underwear must be thrown away on New Year's Day, otherwise the magic will not work.

On 12/30/2019 at 11:58 PM, Kawika said:

No money should be spent on New Year's Day

This is unfortunately impossible for me, because my banks always collects their fees on the 1st. 😭

 

On 12/31/2019 at 10:22 AM, derekjames57 said:

love the "cooking by intuition" approach

Thank you. When I cook, I always enjoy experimenting with ingredients and especially spices. I would never have thought that vanilla goes well with pork before I tried it. 

 

On 12/31/2019 at 1:52 PM, ColtMann said:

1) don't call me Shirley 😛

I had to google that. Now I finally know how to pronounce 'surely' correctly. 😀

On 12/31/2019 at 1:52 PM, ColtMann said:

what about black-eyed peas? I flatter myself that I am a good cook - I soak a pound of black-eyed peas, add a package of ham, some freeze-dried onion, and my secret ingredient, summer savory. everybody raves.

I can very well imagine that it tastes very good. 👍

Happy New Year to all of you.

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malelover

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There is almost 1 liter of white wine in the stew. 😉

You should consider to get yourself a vineyard. 

 

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