Wishing all the Happiest of New Years!
We started our day with black eye peas. I cannot find the green ones anymore in the frozen food section, so we have to go with the dried brown ones. Mom always had the ones from our garden frozen from the summer. I added garden canned tomatoes also.
Quiche with gruyere and Swiss cheese, spices and broccoli. Sprinkles of nutmeg on top
Now on to 2022!
Dearest Betsy,
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to all of you!
Being on our own, we don't ever think of the black eyed peas for good luck... We ate them at our friends' place but we are not fully converted to the American culture.
We too have finished last week our German Christstollen, without the marzipan as that would be too much sugar. Once annually I have to sin, my kidneys have to forgive me.
We found that at TJ Maxx in a bigger city about an hour driving. Makes you always feel good for finding something special from back 'home'. The Netherlands and Germany is culturally the same.
Hugs,
Mariette
Happy New Year! Not a fan of Black Eyed Peas, our family always does pork and sauerkraut. But this year it was leftover meatloaf. I know, not asking for the best luck this year.
ReplyDeletePork and sauerkraut sound good to me. Meatloaf a favorite of my husband. I kinda feel we make our own luck. Wishing you the best of luck and a Happy New Year!
DeleteHello Mariette, I purchased this Christstollen from Aldi's. They have it every year. It was dusted with confectioners' sugar. There is marzipan but I didn't like that one quite as much. Hug, Betsy
ReplyDeleteAldi is a German chain Betsy. Oh, it is so generously dusted with confectioners sugar!
DeleteYes, it was. I knocked some it off. It was sweet enough with cherries. While visiting my daughter when her husband was stationed in Germany, we walked through the little village to the bakery shop to purchase one with almonds, so good! They made some really large ones. Little Bavarian town of Schweinfurt. Nicest neighbors who had grapes growing in their yard with wine making barrels. Fruit trees that one neighbor let us pick the apples and generously shared. I bet it's all changed now. This was October 2007.
DeleteGermany in itself is not much changed but one wonders which business have survived all the lockdowns they were forced into...
DeleteThis is more to the east in Germany, when we traveled from Italy where we lived and worked in 1989, we drove always through Frankfurt on the Autobahn.
Hugs to you Betsy, you cherish lots of fond memories!