We always go to Joe & Meg’s New Year’s Eve party, which is great because it’s right next door so we don’t have to drive anywhere, the kids are close-by, and there are lots of fun neighbors and dumb games. One year Joe & I were partners and won it all. Keep in mind I’m rotten at things like foosball, darts, euchre, etc., but Joe is good at all of those and that night even I was on fire. So this drove Meg crazy since she’s super competitive! He he he…
More importantly, what do you take to EAT at your New Year’s Eve parties?
I’m taking these:
Be safe everyone! Notice I didn’t say, “See you next year?” (Lame.)
$40 worth of Safe Sexy Stainless Steel!
{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }
Have a great time!
So far, no New Year’s Eve traditions for us. Every year has been different. This year, I’m driving Kaylee to Knoxville (http://www.halleethehomemaker.com/2009/12/letting-go/) and will spend the night there at a friend’s house and come home Friday.
For New Year we eat blackeyed peas (cooked with a smoked turkey leg), turnip greens, and cornbread. That is a tradition we never miss – I think Gregg and I are too southern to skip the peas on New Year. heh.
Hallee
We usually have Martinelli’s sparkling apple cider as the Times Square ball drops and the next door neighbors light fireworks, but this year we’re having apple kefir! We are going to try awfully hard to stay up till midnight. New Year’s Day we usually have a breakfast casserole while watching the Rose Parade, then snack all day while football is on. This year’s snacks are decidedly different: kale and sweet potato chips, cheese dip, beef jerky, chicken liver pate, soaked granola, etc. All homemade, all local.
This year I am actually going out! Having dinner with a friend of mine as a local restaurant/fromagerie, five courses paired with alcohol. Should be delicious.
And I love this place. I need to go on a Wednesday because that is their foie gras night and I suspect they source it from the place in NY that treats the ducks well.
This year we will dance the night away in Big
We are having two of my husband’s brothers (and their wives) for an early supper. I plan to cook Stanley Fishman’s Leg of Lamb Roast with Apples from his awesome cookbook, Tender Grassfed Meat.
We will ring in the new year around 7pm by watching the Australian celebration on our VCR!! This is very appropriate, because I have had close to 2000 visits on my blog from Austrialia this year! Crikey!
We are outside of Austin, Texas at a resort called Lost Pines. It’s awesome! There’s a big dinner tonight — I think they said BBQ brisket — and there’ll be two-stepping and a Shiner Bock toast to the new year. As much as I love Shiner Bock (local Austin beer) I will probably drink wine.
They have tons of activities all day today too — face painting, baby longhorns, glow-in-the-dark putt putt, pool, wii, s’mores, hay rides, and horse-drawn wagon rides. The kids are loving it! My sister and I went for a long walk all over this morning — got a good workout. We may go in the pool today too — it’s outdoors but heated!
Everyone just left for Austin to get nachos for lunch– I have some peace and quiet in the hotel room. I’m getting the ads scheduled — gotta get it done before tomorrow. And I started reading Knockout by Suzanne Somers — very interesting book!
The food here in Texas is AMAZING. We had some delicious meals which I will blog about. Unbelievably good Tex Mex, fried chicken livers with mashed potatoes & biscuits and gravy, and awesome BBQ.
Happy new year!
We are going to our good friends and business partner’s home for the evening. They have four kids, so it’s easier for us to go to their home than the other way around (and their home is larger). We probably will just be having snacks since dinner will be past by then, but we’ll probably make something quick for dinner at home like tacos tonight (with grass-fed beef, of course!).
Today I found a nice marion berry cobbler from a farm in Oregon with very decent ingredients. I also got some Julie’s Organic ice cream to go with it. I wanted to make something festive, but have run out of time…and I already made an enormous, healthy berry pie with a sprouted crust on Christmas Eve, which everyone loved. It was the first pie I have ever made in my life, and I’m 40 years old! Up until recently I was never that excited about cooking, but since I discovered real food I’ve become more and more interested and have been trying lots of new things.
It’s fun to read about everyone’s new year’s eve activities here. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe new year celebration, whether you are at home having a quiet night or go out on the town.
AnnMarie the Texas New Year sounds awesome. Never been to TX but do want to go there some day!!
We are doing our same routine which is stay home (with 4 kids, it is the best way to spend it). We always have filet mignon (grass-fed, local beef), Alaskan King Crab (probably not sustainable, from Costco, but we only do it this one time a year). Shrimp cocktail (roasted shrimp recipe from Barefoot Contessa), organic baked sweet potatoes and organic green beans cooked with herbs, onions and real butter. We use real grass-fed butter to dip the crab in. Sparkling Organic Apple Cider and Homemade apple Crisp for dessert. Ran out of ice cream and too far to go to Whole Foods to get more, so will make due without tonight. Then we play family games and watch the ball drop!!
Tomorrow is just hang around the house and relax!!
This year we are in the middle of some bedroom remodeling projects that became derailed from the projected schedule. The house was too chaotic with stuff everywhere in the interim to invite people over, so we aren’t doing much in the way of celebration. For New Year’s Eve we watched a nice animated movie, UP, which my husband and son had seen, but I hadn’t yet but wanted to. It was a very sweet movie and a nice way to end and start a year and decade (I know, the decade really starts in 2011, but YKWIM).
NYE dinner was easy-peasy – I simply gleaned from the fridge: tossed red leaf lettuce salad with grape tomatoes from our abundant weekly CSA box with homemade mustard vinaigrette & shaved parmigiano reggiano cheese, leftover *really* meaty bone broth stew with carrots & potato (also CSA), and roasted cauliflower (also CSA). Leftover CA artisan cheese from a get-together with friends the previous night, as well as chipped dark chocolate & coconut meringue cookies I baked yesterday (with leftover egg whites from making egg nog all week) were for dessert. Fife Zinfandel wine from TJs, one of my favorites. Mmmm…
My hubby went to a church function and I stayed home with the kids since they’re too little to enjoy really late nights yet. So I put them to bed and enjoyed some quiet contemplation…something that is rare around here, with three little boys! Thought about the past year, which has been a tough one, and about my hopes for 2010. By 10:00, I was asleep…it was great!