Recipe(tried): Our Family's New Year's Day Menu

Hi Y'all and Happy New Year to all!! I had a wonderful Christmas and sounds like y'all did too!! I took all my family to Las Vegas for a few days prior to Christmas and that was great. All of us really had fun being together....came home, put my skates on and starting cooking for our family Christmas dinner!! This year we are all going to our family cabin on beautiful Spring River in Hardy, Arkansas. We will build a fire, watch the football games, play Shanghai (a family card game) and eat tons!! Here is our family's menu for New Year's Day!!

Gan's Corn Dip served with Fritos
Gan's Tamale Dip served with Fritos (Posted Earlier)
Honey Baked Ham
Hoppin' John or Terri's Black Eye Peas
Collard Greens
Gan's Gnocchi all Romaine
Mama Doile's Potato Salad
Gan's Favorite Cornbread
Mama Doile's Tea
Diane's Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce (Posted earlier)
Gan's Angel Food Cake with Russian Sauce

Gan's Corn Dip

1 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 cup grated Monterey Jack cheese
2 4-oz cans chopped green chilie (either mild or regular)
1 12-oz can golden sweet mexican corn, drained
4 oz jar chopped pimento, drained
chopped ripe olives

Mix ingredients together, except ripe olives.

Bake in oven proof dish at 325 degrees for 25 minutes.

Garnish with chopped ripe olives and serve with fritos.


Hoppin'John Recipe
Recipe Courtesy of Emeril Lagasse

1 tb. olive oli
l large ham hock
1 cup onion, chopped
1/2 cup celery, chopped
1/2 cup green pepper, chopped
1 tb. chopped garlic
1 pound black-eye peas, soaked overnight and rinsed
1 quart chicjen stock
Bay leaf
1 tsp dry thyme leaves
Salt, pepper, and cayenne
3 Tb. finely chopped green onion
3 cups steamed rice

Heat oil in a large soup pot, add the ham hock and sear on all sides for 4 minutes. Add the onion, celery, green pepper and garlic, cook for 4 minutes. Add the black-eye peas, stock, bay leaf, thyme and seasonings. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 40 minutes, or until peas are creamy and tender,stir occasionally. If the liquid evaporates, add more water or stock. Adjust seasonings, and garnish with green onions. Serve over rice.

Terri's Black-Eye Peas for New Year's

4 slices bacon, fried crisp and crumbled (save drippings)
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped bell pepper
1 cup chopped celery
1 can rotel
2 cans (16 oz. each) black-eyed peas
2 teaspoons sugar
salt
1 bay leaf

Saute onion, green pepper and celery in bacon drippings until tender.

Stir in rotel,peas, sugar, salt, bay leaf and half the crumbled bacon. Cook over low heat for 30-45 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add water if necessary. Remove bay leaf and sprinkle with remaining bacon just before serving

Mama Doile's Potato Salad

2 1/2 cups diced cooked and cooled potatoes
1 T. sugar
1 T. vinegar
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp celery seed
3/4 cup miracle whip or Mayonnaise
2 hard bolied eggs cooled and chopped

This is all of our family's favorite potato salad. I always double the recipe.

Gan's Gnocchi
(a long recipe but it's delicious)

1 quart milk
1/2 cup butter
1 cup hominy grits
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp black pepper
1/3 cup cup butter, melted
6 ounces gruyere cheese, grated
1/3 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese

In a heavy, 3 qt. saucepan, bring milk to a boil. Add 1/2 cup butter. Gradually stir in the grits. Resume the boiland continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until mixture is very thick.

Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper. Beat with an electric mixer for 5 minutes, until grits become creamy. Pour into an ungreased 13/9/2 inch casserole, chill until set. (I chill overnight)

Cut the chilled grits into 1 1/2 x 2 inch rectangular pieces. Place them one over another, like rows of dominoes, in a buttered 13x9x2 inch baking dish that is suitable for serving. Pour 1/2 cup melted butter over the top and sprinkle with grated cheeses. Either regrigerate until baking time or bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 30-35 minutes. For a browner crust, place under broiler for several minutes.

Gan's Favorite Cornbread

1 stick of real butter (must be real)
1 1/2 cups of self rising cornmeal 9must be self rising)
3 heaping TB flour
1 tsp salt
1 egg beaten
2 cups buttermilk
3 TB oil

Melt butter in hot skillet(I use cast iron) in 425 degree oven while making the batter. Mix together cornmeal, flour and salt. Add beaten egg, buttermilk and oil. Pour batter into HOT melted butter in 9 or 10 inch black cast iron skillet and bake 25 to 30 minutes.
This is soooooo yummy!!

Gan's Angel Food Cake with Russian Sauce
(Another long time family favorite)

Bake 1 box Duncan Hines Angel Food Cake Mix according to direction on box. Let cool...I turn cake pan upside down and put tube of cake pan over a bottle neck)

Russian Sauce

3 egg yolks beaten
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 pint whipping cream (whipped stiff)

Boil together until slightly thick.
Chill.
When ready to serve the cake, fold in 1/2 pint whipping cream, that has been whipped stiff, into chilled sauce mixture. Serve sauce over cake slices. I always double the sauce recipe.

Mama Doile's Tea

Large picther of brewed tea
1 6-oz frozen lemonade thawed
1/4 cup sugar

Hope y'all enjoy these recipes, as you can see, being from the South, we have a traditional New Year's dinner with our black-eye peas and greens for luck and good health!! AND YOU MUCH HAVE SOUTHERN CORNBREAD, NO SUGAR, PLEASE...HA!!!