We used to have open house for New years, played games, danced, and ate a lot of good food. I would make a large pan of lasagna, fix large platters of roast beef, ham, cheese, potato salad, cold slaw, pickles, olives (black & green), chips and dips long before they became the thing to eat. then at 6:AM we fixed Bacon, eggs, slices of ham, waffles, pancakes toast and any one who was still here would eat breakfast. I just wish I still had 1/2 the energy that I had then. lol Betty in New Jersey > > From: "Carl Suk" <csuk@kih.net> > Date: 2002/12/31 Tue AM 07:19:49 GMT+01:00 > To: > Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Pork on New Years > > No Robin, > > I'm not making fun at you, just trying to stimulate some thought provoking > interest for everyone, Heck the list has been quiet over the holidays and we > need to get active. > > Y'all have a good New Year's. Hey what does everybody do to bring in the > New Year? My family tradition is to shoot the guns at mid night we can > still do that here and not have to worry about shot hitting any one. > > Carl > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robin M. Stinson" <robinpaulstinson@mybluelight.com> > To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:01 AM > Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Pork on New Years > > > > > > Hi Carl, > > It sounds like the Beverly Hillbillies. > > Your not making fun of me are you? The closest I have ever came to > Beverly > > Hillibillies food is something I heard from one of my distant relatives. > > They told me that my great-great grandmother used to cook swamp rabbit. > > Her name was Amy Westcott Keen, My relative also told me that Swamp > Rabbit > > was actually Muskrat. She would never eat it but her recipe was well know > > in Salem County, NJ. > > > > Robin > > > > > > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > > From: Carl Suk > > Date: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:52:36 AM > > To: Robin M. Stinson; NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Pork on New Years > > > > Come on Robin, > > > > Collards, Mustard, Turnip and Beet green smothered in bacon fat, nutin' > > better. Us folks down here in the hollar (y'all call it the valley) know > how > > to eat. Now for New Year's we are all getting together (that is the hollar > > folks)for a big feast, everybody is bring a dish. It will be an all day > > affair. I'm making squirrel pot pie from my grand mother's recipe, there > > will be venison roast, chittlings and a whole bunch of other things plus > > plenty of corn. WE don't get out much but we do know how to celebrate the > > New Year. > > > > Y'all come now ya hear! > > > > Carl > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Robin M. Stinson" <robinpaulstinson@mybluelight.com> > > To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:54 PM > > Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Pork on New Years > > > > > > > Hi, > > > Is this a southern thing? My husband wants me to cook spinach or > > greens > > > > > > Carl might get a kick out of this. When my husband asked me to cook > > greens > > > I replyed green what? He said greens. I said green what? Of course > > > this went on for a while. Finally I said what gensus and species are we > > > talking about? > > > Well anyway I thought it was funny. I refuse to cook greens etc. I > > guess > > > that is my northern side coming out. My inlaws think the Civil War is > > still > > > going on. > > > > > > Love, > > > Robin > > > > > > > > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > > > > From: Tacy413408@aol.com > > > Date: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:14:48 PM > > > To: NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com > > > Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Pork on New Years > > > > > > Robin,' > > > > > > We always ate pork and saurkraut on New Year's Day. Supposed to bring > good > > > luck and good health. My mom used to say if you ate chicken(fowl) on New > > > Year's Day you would scratch (for a living?) all year. Down here it is > > pork > > > and blackeyed peas for health and wealth. We will be having porkroast > with > > > saurkraut. May throw in some blackeyed peas for my husband. > > > > > > Pat > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > > go > > > to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > . > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > > go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >