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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Pork And Sauerkraut


It is a Pennsylvania Dutch tradition to eat Pork & Sauerkraut on New Year's Day. It's supposed to bring good luck, but in my opinion it only brings sauerkraut stank to your home. I am NOT a fan of sauerkraut - although I love a nice piece of pork.

My good friend and "sister", the Mistress Maddie, keeps this tradition alive. Maddie will prepare her dish before she goes out and gets wasted on New Year's Eve. That way all she has to do is pop it in the oven when she and the Boy Toy roll home sometime on New Year's Day. Maddie might be a drunk, but she's not about to tempt fate and miss her good luck pork!

15 comments:

  1. DD -

    happy new year - 2009. pork is good. syngin looks good too. we eat sauerkraut too along with black eye peas and collard greens. and pork.

    just woke up - went partying last night with two friends, my nephew and his girlfriend - straight and gay places in louisville. all is well.

    keep up the good blog.

    travis
    spears.park@hotmail.com

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  2. Sauerkraut und Schwein ein typisch Deutsches Essen.
    Happy New Year.

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  3. stayed in last night and made my good luck foods: collards, cornbread, and black-eyed peas... saurkraut is awesome, but very, VERY stanky! :))

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  4. I eat this too!!! My grandma made it every new years....in fact, I will be making it today too. it's the only day I eat sauerkraut!!!

    I had a nice quiet night...how bout you?

    Love you, love your hair!
    XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

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  5. I agree...never pass on a good piece of pork.

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  6. We do the corn bread too but have it with lentils from BIL's farm - not cleaned to food industry standards so you have to pick out the wheat kernels and bits of rock.
    The Engineer burns a bayberry candle all day per his family tradition.

    Happy New Year!

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  7. Momma Ginger always said:
    "In the South on New Year's day, we eat cabbage to ensure prosperity int he New Year, we eat black-eyed peas to bring luck in the new year, and we eat cornbread because it goes good with cabbage and black-eyed peas!
    My peas are soaking right now!

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  8. We don't have a special New Year's dish, but every holiday growing up, I ate sauerkraut and Polish sausage. Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas. Sauerkraut only tastes good when it's been simmering for a few hours with a nice piece of kielbasa and a big chunk of fatty pork...mmmm!

    HNY! xoxoxoxo
    K

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  9. Happy New Year, David and best of luck. Hey, I'm all for traditions no matter how stinky. Don't mess with a good thing. Here's to a wonderful 09!

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  10. We are presently knee-deep in the tradition. The pork is in the oven, and The Mistress has retired to bed.

    You migh ask, what could be worse than that smell?

    The answer, of course, is smelling it while hungover.

    Please help-

    The Boy Toy

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  11. I love Sauerkraut...and pork. We have a tradition to eat homemade spaghetti on New Years. :)

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  12. LOVE the sauerkraut. Loved the times when I was a kid when my mom would make sauerkraut and pork. Nowadays I go to Suppenkuche in SF to get my fix.

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  13. Corned beef and cabbage w/black-eyed peas for me. more of a Scots-Irish thing.

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  14. Mame,Happy New Year! I ate so much pork and saurkraut I should have enough good luck for everyone on here!

    XOXOXOX
    Maddie

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  15. I like pork and sauerkraut. I make my own Reuben sandwiches, so I eat sauerkraut now and then. Sometime (next year if I can remember it or maybe his year except the 1st is almost over) I'm going to eat all the traditional good luck food from other cultures for the new year. It will be odd. Pork, sauerkraut, black-eyed peas, and turnip greens (or other greens) all go together. I don't know about the cabbage. What other foods are there?

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