# What's your New Year's menu? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718 "2020-01-01T14:57:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/1 "2020-01-01T14:57:37Z")
Right now I have a loaf of [Nutty-Fruity Sourdough](https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/nutty-fruity-sourdough-recipe?fbclid=IwAR0G3JOEjVlZrtb3ROh0eD8X7EsVSWQBW55bQ7OxPhc6Wb4kbYuQrwJbk3M) in the oven. Dinner tonight will be [Roast Duck with Port and Cherry Sauce, with sweet and sour red cabbage and green apples and new potatoes on the side,](https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/slow_roast_duck_with_00949) along with what I am hoping is an awesome bottle of red wine that we bought a few weeks ago that was much more expensive than our usual sub-$10 choices. Dessert: somethin to use up the quart of organic heavy cream left over from our caroling party a couple of weeks ago. Possibly sticky toffee pudding - other ideas welcome. (Even the sticky toffee pudding won’t use up all of it.) No idea about lunch - probably something simple. Rice bowls with bits of leftover veggies on top, and a crispy fried egg? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/2 "2020-01-01T15:40:39Z")
Dinner tonight will be ham, corn, boiled potatoes, and one of those giant chocolate chip cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/3 "2020-01-01T15:56:05Z")
We’re having a pork loin roasted with parsnips, sweet potatoes, and carrots, along with black-eyed peas(soaking since yesterday) cooked with collards and tomatoes. A bottle of Argentine malbec will wash it all down nicely. I juiced enough oranges from our tree to drown the New Year’s Eve crowd in New York City just yesterday, so dessert will be an orange cake made with fresh zest and juice. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/4 "2020-01-01T16:35:39Z")
I have a meaty hambone leftover from Christmas that I will be using to make Navy Bean soup. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/5 "2020-01-01T19:44:39Z")
Black-eyed peas cooked with the bone from the Christmas ham, cornbread, rice, and cabbage. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/6 "2020-01-01T20:03:22Z")
Roast turkey, yams, brussels sprouts and cranberry sauce. The daughter is cooking. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/7 "2020-01-01T20:07:01Z")
We did breakfast at McDonald’s, and will be having a microwave lasagna for dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/8 "2020-01-01T22:51:42Z")
Changed my mind about the sticky toffee pudding; it seemed unwise to make a whole batch for 2 people, and it doesn’t keep very well. Maybe I will invite friends over on the weekend and do that. In the meantime, I decided to do chocolate mousse instead. It’s also starting to smell like roast duck in here! ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/9 "2020-01-01T23:04:03Z")
Undecided as yet. Probably something simple. I’m too lazy to lasso a passing antelope. (They’re easy pickings around here.) Tamales and avocados may be involved. I’ll conjure-up a tasty repast. It’s a habit. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/10 "2020-01-02T17:42:51Z")
I made a pot of sauerkraut soup with potatoes, carrot, and smoked pork hock, ribs & sausage. Also includes caraway, marjoram, allspice & bay. While I had a little here and there during cooking last night, tonight will be the first full helping. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/11 "2020-01-02T17:51:05Z")
I try to make lentil soup or some kind of black eyed peas dish. Usually we have pizza. But carved in stone are 1) little cocktail franks wrapped in strips of tube crescent rolls. 40 franks come in a package, and I cut each triangle of dough into 5 strips, and it works out perfectly. 2) macaroni and shrimp salad, little pasta with chopped onion, celery, and carrot, mixed with chopped hard cooked egg and a rinsed can of shrimp. It has to be canned shrimp. Mix with mayo, a bit of seasoned salt and sprinkle with Old Bay and that, my friends, is good eatin’. One of my favorite dishes. And leftover Christmas cookies and eggnog for dessert. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/12 "2020-01-02T17:51:08Z")
There’s another thread on this somewhere, but I’ll play. We had our usual seafood paella on NYD. ---
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-new-years-menu/845718/13 "2020-01-07T21:44:31Z")
A little late to the party, but my wife and I did our traditional Lobster feast! Lobsters were quite small this year, they were $15/lbs and bought 4 and it came out to just over $70 CDN. I also bout 2lbs of King Crap legs from Costco ($39 CDN). We used to be able to get lobsters that were 2.5-3.5lbs in size, but I haven’t seen anything of that size in 2-3 years. I steamed the shellfish, cooked some white rice and grabbed a couple of baguettes. I use plain butter my wife used garlic butter. Also cracked a bottle of 2014 “The Prisoner” red wine. It was okay, but wasn’t blown away by it especially considering the price point. Then with the leftover shellfish the next night I threw the leftovers into an Alfredo sauce and we had seafood pasta Alfredo and grilled steaks! I think this is the 10th year in a row we’ve done this! MtM