Steeped heavily in tradition, the New Year’s Day Southern meal is hearty and familiar. Each component has significance. As tradition goes, pork is chosen as the primary protein for the following reason:
A pig roots forward. A chicken scratches backwards. A cow stands still. Pork symbolizes forward progress.
I’m not pushing my luck. We shall dine on pork on New Year’s Day like I have every other New Year’s Day in my entire life.
There’s lots of options for pork consumage. Yes, I know consumage isn’t a word and I should have correctly used consumption instead. Sometimes, it’s fun to be a renegade. Here we go with a pork recipe round-up for your dining pleasure. And, by all means, laugh along with me at the early photos. Everything that you don’t want to find in a published photo is found here: blurry, poor composition, poor lighting and generally bad. It’s all here in my early photos. But, as the song goes, “I was so much younger then, I’m older than that now.”
Orange and Rosemary Braised Pork Shanks
Smoked Pulled Pork
Two-meat Sloppy Joes
Sausage Gravy and Buttermilk Biscuits
We wish you a peaceful, happy New Year. May God bless you all.
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Traditional Southern New Year’s Day Menu
Betty Hunt says
I like the new word “consumage” – makes perfect sense to me!
Jackie Garvin says
Betty,
HAHA!! Sounded right to me, too! 🙂
Danny Taylor says
Here’s a porky Happy New Year to you and the whole of the Garvin family. Praying it’s a stellar year and brings you all that which you seek!! Love to you cuz!!
Jackie Garvin says
Danny,
Happy New Year to you and your bunch! We send much love your way. 🙂
Marcia says
I never knew this about pork, Only the greens and black-eyed peas tradition. I’m roasting a turkey for NYD. I hope that will be ok. I mean, they gobble, gobble forward, right? I will be seasoning my greens and peas with some bacon so I’ve got the pork covered there.
Jackie Garvin says
Marcia,
I don’t think there’s a pork quota for New Year’s Day. The bacon you’re putting in your black-eyed peas should be sufficient to work it’s magic. 🙂
Kurt says
Well….I never knew that little ddidy ” A Pig roots forward “. Now there is a reason for my 30 plus year tradition. Here’s to You and all your fans ! I pray for unlimited blessings from God up above and much consumage of them !!
Jackie Garvin says
Kurt,
“Consumage” might just catch on!
Our household wishes your household the best 2013 has to offer. May God richly bless.
Jean says
Happy New year my friend! I don’t think I have ever heard that saying but it certainly makes sense. I am off to buy black eyed peas today with some sort of pork to eat with them. Your pork chops on the newest post look delish but then I never met a pork chop I didn’t like! I have visions of cream gravy to go along with those too. Here is wishing your family the very best new year evah!
Jackie Garvin says
Happy New Year, Jean! I wish for you the best that 2013 has to offer. 🙂