Holiday

[jeanlake]

Quiet evening with fireplace and movie instead of being with friends. Hubs is having a colonoscopy (routine) on Wednesday. I asked hubs what he wanted for NYE dinner and he said loaded pizza with pineapple. I'll go with veggie pizza on my side. He rarely suggests we order pizza. Then he said fish sticks and milkshake on New Years Day. He started a light fast yesterday to begin his colonoscopy prep. I think it's getting to him. He ain't right.     

[SandySparkles]

We are keeping things very simple this New Year's Eve; no fanfare. I am just not up to cooking a full meal, so it will likely be several of our favorite appetizers, and perhaps a cheesecake or lemon bars for dessert.😊

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

[Flatbush]

Nothing too fancy, I can tell you that.

New Years Eve: take out Chinese food. I love the orange chicken.

New Years Day: Roasted chicken from the grocery store, home made cranberry sauce, twice baked potatoes ( since some one posted the recipe for it, I think it was for Thanksgiving, not sure) I was reminded of them.Lemon cake from store freezer. No veggies, you don't have to eat them on a holiday :-)

That's it.

[alicedee]

NY Eve I will make sautéed shrimp and pasta.  There will be plenty of leftovers for the next day,

[beach-mom]

Our tradition is Japanese food for New Year's Eve. This year of course we will be bringing it home.

For New Year's Day I usually make pork tenderloin. We always have black eyed peas. I usually make the other sides from a cookbook or two I get for Christmas.  

[Starpolisher]

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@Mz iMac wrote:

New Years Eve:  Bobby Chez crab cakes, stuffed shrimp, potato salad & cold slaw.

Sorry, Bobby does not reveal his recipes.

New Years Day:  Hoppin Johns, collards, oxtails & fried chicken.  The rest of BC potato salad.  Paramour is bringing over cooked chitlins (I'm not stinking up my complex).

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Yum, yum. Gimme some! 😋

Happy New Year! 🎉🍾🍽🥂🥳

[birdQ13]

New years eve: cheese & crackers, something from Trader Joes freezer - maybe Chinese, maybe Spanikopita. New Years day love my homemade black-eyed pea salad (old Southern Living recipe) plus ham for him, fish for me. Happy New Year everybody!

[LindaSal]

Sesame seed crusted tuna steaks, pea pods and rice.

Easy dinner and goes great with champagne!!  Woohoo!!

[Patriot3]

When my kids were growing up, we had a wood burning fireplace.  We would roast hot dogs, (the good ones in casing) I made baked beans, potato salad, other goodies and we had a picnic while watching football and other stuff all day. 

So, now being alone, I will have hot dogs (still casing ones) that I can't roast on a gas fireplace.  Maybe make baked beans, maybe not.  Again watching football.

Would like to go to Mass, but I'm in that vulnerable age and have to watch it on TV.  Miss Communion very much.

[Mominohio]

It will be nothing and nothing at our house. 

I don't find NYE  and NYD to be much of a holiday. My husband will get a four day weekend after working a lot of overtime the last few months. We are going to stay up late watching movies, sleep late, and go nowhere. Food will be whatever I decide to whip up each day that weekend. 

Under normal circumstances, a long weekend like that would have involved shopping, running around to see some friends and several meals out. Just getting out and about. But because of Covid, none of that will happen. I'm ok with it. 

Last Christmas, I was looking ahead at the calendar for this year's holiday season (I always do) to anticipate when it falls, how we will do things, and I was so excited to see that Christmas and New Years were on a Friday. That gives my husband a three day weekend at Christmas and a four day weekend for New Years, when many years, he just has to work the day before and the day after. Was definitely anticipating a great time off, and running around and doing some basic but fun things like shopping and eating out. The big bummer wasn't so much we missed it this year, but that it will be a long time till it all falls like that again!