TRADITIONAL NEW YEAR'S CHOW SUPPLANTED BY NOT QUITE AS TRADITIONAL SHAKEUPS......






early collard clean-out.........My Grandmother's New Year's lunch/dinner always included collard greens...cooked in vegetable bouillon.... crowder or black-eyed peas, and crunchy-crusted iron skillet cornbread with cracklings.........I began a bit early, because this 'kind' of collard greens is best, a couple of days later.....served with red, balsamic pepper-vinegar and chopped bacon and crispy fried okra, sprinkled with spicy paprika powder and ground orange peppers......some flat leaf spicy collards with hot peppers is also in the works.....to be served with fried onion rings and corn pones.......






'on' to the next 'thing'.......how about some Fish Sperm Sacs.....Sapporo style? I'm having some smoked eel sushi and Vidalia onion tempura for 'sunrise' b'fast.......having 'done' the traditional North Alabama New Year's foods a couple of days early.......Japanese buckwheat noodles with sesame oil and wasabi paste are washing out all the largesse of traditional American X'mas Fare's caloric overload.......New Year's Day will see sheep's pancreas, cooked in herbed butter, French style, with thin, crunchy asparagus sticks......that I've not had in a few years.......much tastier than bags of fish sperm or thin-sliced fowl gizzards in peanut sauce, Zimmern-style.......eaten, sentimentally, with Lilburn Carre' and Troy Ellis' old abalone shell-inlaid lacquered chopsticks, from Phyllis Rix's old Canton bowls........for End of 2023 'nostalgia'.......

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