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Just wondering what everyone is doing & serving for the New Year celebration??
I havent really decided on what meal yet (New Years Day)and will just be me & Hubby for our regular snack fest one NY Eve, so only definites I got for that so far are the lil smokies in sauce, maybe a cheese plate with cubed cheese & crackers & thinking of starting the year a LITTLE healthier with fruit & lo cal dip instead of cookies & candies. Other than that Im still looking for ideas... So whats your plans?

After I clean up from Christmas I'll start to think about NYE. I am leaning towards doing a fondue. Haven't done that in awhile.

Oh wow, Jo-CT, that reminds me, I have a fondue pot & scewer set I bought this past summer & havent gotten to use yet, got any good fondue recipes that arent too labor intensive or expensive? And any ideas for what breads/etc to use? Have never used one of these before so any help would be appreciated.

And I am leaning towards a pasta dish of some sort for NY day I think.... not sure tho. lol

Since we sold our business a few years ago, our NYE tradition has been to go to the city and do a movie marathon with a pub type meal between shows. (and plenty of popcorn!) Spend the night and then go to a great sale at Dillard's on NY Day! (followed by another movie before we head home!)

Martha

I like your NYE tradition Linderhof! Really, really like it. Has got me thinking!

Linderhof, that really sounds like a lot of FUN!!! I was just curious where you live?
Where I live, if we did that, it would be really expensive. Movies typically cost about $10 a person, and the popcorn is through the roof. If we did that activity where I live (or even in NYC) it would be really costly. It really sounds like a lot of fun. Have a 'funderfilled' New Yrs. Eve!!!!

Kapoobare- I have only tried one recipe. I'll dig it out and share. I usually make a platter of cubed crusty bread, veggies, cubed ham, turkey, whatever I have leftover in the fridge! I may get a small steak and cube it up too.

The movie marathon that Linderhof describes can't be much more than tickets to a club and paying for drinks all night long. A lot of places charge $80-100 pp to get into the big parties. We will be with a small group of friends to see the New Year arrive.

DH/I have king crab legs and asti spumante every NYE. Usually have a salad as well and maybe a cheese/cracker platter.

NYDay is corn beef w/potatoes, carrots, cabbage and corn bread. I usually have red wine and he has a beer.

We're so tired and cranky, we don't even stay up to watch the ball drop on NYE.

We usually head over to our neighbors for their annual NYD open house, when 75 people or so stop by to eat, drink and watch the big game over the course of a few hours. There is a huge array of hot entrees, salads, soups and killer desserts. And the husband always introduces some crazy cocktail he has spent a year concocting and refining.

This year, some new friends have invited us on January 4 for a cocktail party. Looking forward to something new.

Cheddar Fondue

1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground mustard
1/4 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
1 1/2 cups milk
2 cups (8oz) shredded cheddar cheese

bread cubes, ham cubes, bite size sausage and veggies

In a saucepan, melt butter stir in flour, S&P mustard and worcestershire sauce until smooth.Gradually add milk. Bring to a boil and cook and stir for 2 min. until thickened. Reduce heat and add the cheese. Cook and stir until melted. Transfer to a fondue pot or slow cooker to keep warm.

After it turns January 1, 2013 at any point on the date line, I'm lible/libal/liable to go to bed at any time.

January 1, I will cook black eye peas with salt pork, collard greens or cabbage, and cornbread.Since I'm cooking ham tomorrow for "Christmas" dinner with my son and some other family members, we'll probably have ham too.

No plans here. DH will likely go to bed at his usual 10 p.m. and I'll still be hanging out doing my thing at midnight. There will be fireworks in the neighborhood, though.

Jo-CT Thank you for the recipe, will give it a try!
Linderhof, that sounds like so much fun! But too xpensive here, runs about $25 per movie per person here, we prefer to do movies & popcorn at home anyway, more comfy! lol
TFS all.

Linderhof, that sounds like fun. You can't beat watching a film on the big screen.

I have no idea what I'm going to fix tomorrow night. I can't believe it is here already. We were away all week and now - YIKES!

Sister and her husband will be over. We'll watch a movie and munch on finger food all night.

Well, now I have time to answer!
The past three days we had a "mini retreat" at our quilt shop, & DH & I cooked all meals each day.
Our participants quilted & sewed from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. & we all had a great time. Now we're having leftovers to start out the new year!

Here's our menu - the recipes are on my Pinterest page here:
http://pinterest.com/calicomermaid/deliciousness/

Breakfast:
Sausage egg casserole
biscuits & gravy

Lunch:
salad bar
cookies

Dinner:
chicken enchiladas
salad
beans & spanish rice
apple dumplings

Breakfast:
omelette bar
bacon

Lunch:
sandwich bar
cookies

Dinner:
chili
chicken soup
garlic breadsticks
smores cake

Breakfast:
breakfast sliders

Lunch:
baked potato bar
smores cake

It's low key on NYD at our house, we've been out for dinner & celebrating the night before.

I prepared a full fondue meal a few days after Christmas during a week+ in the mountains of Colorado. Filet of beef, shrimp and sauces, Swiss cheese fondue with French bread and chocolate dessert sauce with a variety of dippers.

Since the kids grew up and left the nest, our NYE and day are never the same from one year to the next.

I do usually try on NYD to serve the traditional southern NYD meal, but not this year. This morning made day # 11 of kids here for Christmas,the last ones left this morning after breakfast. I treasured every hour with them, but DH and I are exhausted. He just left to pick up takeout for lunch, and for supper I'll pull a casserole from the frezer. We will do only things we want to today and tomorrow we will jump in and restore order around here!

Becky56,
Wow and I thought I was exhausted after kids here for 6 days; you win mom of the year for 11 days. I so look forward to family and friends visiting, but at some point during their stay I am counting the days until they leave. Need to reclaim my life, house and my normal routine to restore my sanity. I will never have the nerve to put in my guest rooms the pillow that says" fish and guests stink after 3 days."

LOL Mamaspoon, that's just how I was feeling after a week. I have 3 that live out of state and instead of having a few days of chaos having them here all at one time, they all came at different times with a few days of all of them here. Whew! Also had other local family in and out wanting to see them, plus DIL 1's parents here for a weekend. I love it, but am so tired and ready to get back to normal!

We aren't exactly parenting both generations on either side of our families yet, but our kids are out of our home and parents getting on in years. My siblings and our children all still love family gatherings at our childhood home.
To make it easy on Mom, I go down a few weeks ahead of the holiday and we discuss the menu, meal service, decorations, etc.
I then telephone my siblings and ask what they'd be willing to prepare from the menu.
I go down early the morning of the event and set the tables and prep meat or whatever needs done at the last minute.
Everyone else shows up with the goods, we spend the day, do the dishes and pack them away again, dismantle dining tables, get the toyroom restored to normalcy. The older grandkids do any chores G&G need completed.

At Thanksgiving we put up all the Christmas decorations, change the nightlight bulbs in the ceiling fan (it's a major pain chore.)

My mother is soooooo thankful I do this for her.
The grandkids are not ready to give up spending the holiday at the farm. I don't have to get my house ready to entertain. Everyone shows up.
Everybody is HAPPY!

Christmas will be this weekend.

My MIL & her family, now that's a nightmare. She whines because she's alone, she complains when the kids/grandkids come to visit & watch TV, play games, have a good time and make too much noise, she doesn't "eat like that anymore" to our toted in dinners. Difficult to please, difficult to find the time to visit!

Wow, I am totally boring (which is typical for New Years Eve for me). Dh, kids, and his sister were out of town so I just stayed home and worked on the house. I watched the "ball drop" (though I didn't really see any ball dropping, just the countdown) for the east coast for maybe 30 seconds and then I went back to the house stuff.

I did buy one of those ready made chickens and had a nice chicken dinner. I combined some of the chicken breast with cream of chicken soup to which I added a new seasoning spice mix I bought, microwaved a baked potato, and had salad with an orange juice/olive oil and spices homemade dressing.

Wavy -- we live on the prairie and the "city" is Kansas City -- afternoon movies are $5 to $7 while evening shows are $7 to $10. We don't do popcorn at every movie -- just one! And I think it is expensive! But 3 movies would be $21 each while 4 would add another $7 to that. If you went to any organized NYE party, you would spend that much (or more)!

Martha