What are your dinner dishes for New Year´s Eve & New Year´s Day ?

Me neither Grumpa

I don’t eat anything special on NYE now, though we always had friends round for dinner in the past. NYD I usually cook roast pork, but this year yet another football match is scheduled to interfere with the timings so we shall have to see. Egg and chips is beginning to look like a tempting prospect!

As we were away on 25th our NYE meal will be our own traditional turkey Christmas dinner eaten early afternoon. A (small) slice of Christmas cake in the evening if we feel like it while watching a film on tv

NYD will be Mr C’s choice of either something with chips or scrambled egg on toast.

Nothing special, it’s just another day.

I’m another Northener who calls it ‘egg and chips’. I have never heard anybody call it ‘chips and egg’ apart from Shirley Valentine in the movie.🤔

I’m cooking for visiting family of 5 on NYD. Turkey, beef, stuffing, roast potatoes,pigs in blankets, spiced red cabbage, broccoli . Strawberry trifle for dessert.

I’ll be on my own NYE and will be happy with a cheese sandwich. I might even push the boat out and have a packet of crisps on the side . I’ll stay up till after midnight for video calls from both sets of grandchildren and a flurry of texts from cousins around the UK and Ireland.

Wishing you all best wishes and good health for 2025 .

I’m in Oz with UK DD and her family staying with our Oz DD. UK son in law gave the Aus son in law a Middle Eastern cookbook Persiana for Christmas and is cooking up a feast from one of the recipes. He’s out for the day and has left a list of his requirements for his SiL to acquire. At least 30 😱. She’s currently going through the larder ticking off ingredients before shopping for what is lacking. It’d better be good 🤣 (I’m sure it will be!)

Cannot recall ever having anything special to eat on either day.

NYE local restaurant no meat pasta maybe baklava for dessert.
NYD planning on making Balmoral chicken with whiskey sauce homemade trifle for dessert.
That’s if I feel okay being a bit off colour lately unsure why I shall see I might just cook for DH and have a salad.

We are also having a meat and cheese fondue New Year Eve.New Day we are having a Christmas dinner My daughter and Husband spent 7 hours in hospital with our Granddaughter on the big day.

I don’t do sausage either steak pie is steak stewed in gravy steak and mushroom or steak and onion sometimes here but never kidney or sausage.Its as my mum would have made it and my granny and its puff pastry top only and only steak on New Year’s Day Boiled marrow fat peas are compulsory

paddyann54

Traditional steak pie ( no kidney ,don’t know anyone who has kidney in their new year pie) Scotch broth to start and trifle to finish.Got the kids and grandchildren so everyone willl eat this,even the baby.After a Christmas Day on our own my children thought I’d disowned them so normal service is resumed

We have kidney! but no sausage, I like kidney, loath sausage.

We are in Benalmádena on the Costa del Sol for New Year.
We have a table booked at an Indian/Mexican/Italian restaurant for New Year's Eve 🥳
No plans yet for New Year's Day!

New Year’s Day has to be “steak pie and peas” it couldn't be ANYTHING Else!

New Year's Eve: Lunch: Fondue then blackberry mousse. In the evening; soup and a roll around 6.00pm, then around 10.00pm I will bake some canapes and hand them around until midnight when we see in the new year with fizz.

New Years day,turkey curry for lunch and a 'pick & mix' tea. In other words raid the fridge for cold ham, pork pie, cheese and salads and salad veg.

Traditional steak pie ( no kidney ,don’t know anyone who has kidney in their new year pie) Scotch broth to start and trifle to finish.Got the kids and grandchildren so everyone willl eat this,even the baby.After a Christmas Day on our own my children thought I’d disowned them so normal service is resumed

We’re doing it the easy way - off out to watch a Fleetwood Mac lookalike group with friends so don’t have to bother! Used to do a BBQ with nibbles which was good because husband did most of the work.

Whatever is in the freezer, I would like to make some space. I only have one course as I do not like desserts.

NYE - lots of nibbles, family round. Desserts. Prosecco.

NYD - more nibbles, family will come round again. Fruit.

No idea. But we have a turkey, ham and beef in the freezer. To much to do in the next few days to decide now.

Grandchildren staying NYE, pizza for them & MrJ, I’ll have fish, NYD, not sure yet, I might make a curry.

BlueBelle

Oh thank goodness there’s a few more posters with ‘what ever is on hand’ I was really feeling like the poor relation

Me too. I will raid the fridge to see what's for dinner about an hour before.

Oh thank goodness there’s a few more posters with ‘what ever is on hand’ I was really feeling like the poor relation

Lamb shanks NYE. Not sure about NY day yet.

Boiled ham with chopped boiled kale in white sauce on New Year's Eve. This is one of the traditional Danish dishes for the New Year, and I have never cared for boiled cod which is the other.

If I make a dessert, which I shan't do this year, as I shall be on my own, I serve trifle.

New Year's day does not have traditional dishes here, and as it is quite impossible now to buy kidneys in supermarkets or even at a butcher's (not that there is one here) I cannot go with the Scottish tradition of steak-and-kidney pie on Ne'erday.

OH has requested lamb chops for NYE. Not sure about pudding - there will definitely be one but it might be some lemon ice cream which I made a while ago. NYD - I have booked a table at a favourite riverside restaurant.