Our traditions in the making

Seems every culture or geographic region has it's own traditional foods for New Year's Day. In the South it is black eyed peas and collard greens. Sometimes even Hopppin' John. In the North some folks eat pork roast and sauerkraut. While others prefer corn beef and cabbage. The traditional Hungarian New Year's Eve meal is a roast suckling pig. Ummm . . . yeah.






This year we decided to start our own tradition. Boo and Licious requested salad. Licious wanted red cabbage and carrots in it. Boo wanted croutons and honey mustard dressing.






Razor and I suggested homemade minestrone soup in a bread bowl. Wide-eyed and unbelieving of the whole soup-in-a-bread-bowl bit, Boo and Licious enthusiastically agreed.





Little hands washed, peeled and chopped for what seemed like hours. And though I could have gotten it prepared in less than half the time, I was thrilled to have the help . . . for we've decided this is our New Year's Eve family tradition.




And, I will look forward to it for many, many years to come.

Happy New Year.

-dana